Welcome to JPMorgan Chase. Are you an analytical thinker, passionate about problem solving, loves interacting with different sets of people in your job? Then, You have found the right team.
As an Analyst in our APAC Cash Equities Middle Office team, you will be a part of a process group that comprises of business-aligned support teams for the sales activities in Asia across Single Stocks, Program Trading, and Electronic Client Solutions. The business covers global flows for Asian clients. Trade Support team manage the market risk activity supporting Agency as well as Principal trading while the Client Services team is responsible for supporting client activity from an operational perspective and maintaining stringent controls in daily sales activities. The team comprises of client services representatives who support a range of transactional support, client relationship management, and controls. Products coverage are Derivatives, Cash equity, convertible bonds, stock borrow and loan, depositary receipts and etc.
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Job responsibilities
- Act as the first point of contact for clients & Front office on all operational issues including allocation, pre-match, settlement and post settlement events.
- Perform reconciliations between front office, middle office and back office systems to ensure data capture accuracy and completeness.
- Ensure all transactions are correctly captured in booking systems, risk management and downstream systems and escalate issues for any urgent matters or assistance
- Work closely with client, Settlements and other third party institutions to settle client trades.
- Produce time sensitive reports with actionable data to Front Office, Middle Office or Back Office for break resolutions and detailed business control metrics to management on a daily basis
- Liaise with client onboarding and reference data team to setup accounts internally
- Liaise with trade support team to identify and fix exceptions.
- Ensure the Sales and Trading are in compliance with rules and regulations in various local jurisdictions.
- Continuously participate in projects involving; new product rollout, new system implementation, process improvements & perform root cause analyses on new issues or control gaps
- Take ownership of work, problems, clarify issues / objections, and ensure data integrity, accuracy and completeness
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Minimum 1 year of working experience in Middle office role in Client Service / Trade Support / Cash Equity / Derivatives Trade Support
- Knowledge of Equities, Bonds, and Equity Swap products and relevant process flows is necessary
- Understand the key elements of other infrastructure groups (i.e. Finance, Market risk, Credit risk, Operational risk, Legal, Collateral etc.) and recognize the impact of the actions of the Trade support team on these areas
- Excellent communication skills; fluency in English required. Individual should have been in a role that required daily and extensive communication directly with FO Sales & Marketing groups
- Attention to details and sense of ownership
- Great team player able to work in a pressurized and changing environment
- Possess strong analytical and numerical skills
- Strong problem-solving, control, and project management skills
- Strong technical skills, especially in Excel
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Familiarity with modern skills of the future tools such as Alteryx, Tableau, PowerBi
- Technical skills such as VBA is a plus
- In-depth experience with equity products and global markets, including rules and regulations familiarity preferred
- Derivatives Regulatory knowledge is a plus, i.e. Dodd Frank, EMIR
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ABOUT THE TEAM
J.P. Morgan's Commercial & Investment Bank is a global leader across banking, markets, securities services and payments. Corporations, governments and institutions throughout the world entrust us with their business in more than 100 countries. The Commercial & Investment Bank provides strategic advice, raises capital, manages risk and extends liquidity in markets around the world.