EMEA Corporates Trading Assistant - Associate

Job Description
Join our Middle Office team as a Corporates Trading Assistant to gain insights, manage transactions, and drive innovative solutions.
As a Corporates Trading Assistant - Associate in the Corporates and Fund Financing Middle Office team, you will deliver Trading, Sales, and Client support. You will gain invaluable insights into Investment Bank Middle Office Operations and related systems, with unique exposure to Front, Middle, and Back Office teams, as well as external clients. You will have the opportunity to develop a deep understanding of products, internal systems, processes, support teams and participate in project initiatives and play a key role in developing new processes and opportunities.
Job responsibilities

• Manages financing transactions including pre-trade discussions with Sales and Trading and identification of bespoke solutions to facilitate deal execution, trade capture, settlement, collateral monitoring, lifecycle event management, client reporting and ad hoc client requests
• Manages mutual fund orders including onboarding of new funds, external account creation, instrument creation, trade capture, order placement and ongoing position reconciliation
• Manages collateral arrangement with external custodian to maximize profitability across multiple Trading desks
• Partners with internal stakeholders to manage New Business Initiatives (NBIA)
• Partners with clients to understand business and service needs
• Acts as the primary point of escalation for clients and internal stakeholders
• Works closely with Middle Office managers to coordinate trade migrations and reviews control framework and procedures relating to the businesses involved
• Partners with internal stakeholders on core projects including identifying the impact of regulations specific to the Financing business and acting as the business SME to devise tailored solutions
• Rolls out projects to automate processes such as collateral monitoring and client reporting, leveraging self-solve tools such as Alteryx and partnering with Technology and the business to roll out larger scale changes within Athena
• Manages various internal stakeholders including Sales, Trading, Product Control, Technology, Settlements, Market Risk and Business Management, and external stakeholders including clients, fund managers and third party custodians

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Relevant experience in the financial services industry
• Derivatives product experience, specifically operational processing experience
• Strong Excel skills and technical competency with self-solve tools such as Alteryx, Python
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Excellent problem solving skills
• Excellent team working skills and self-motivation
• Detail orientated approach
• Takes ownership and demonstrates commitment and reliability
• Delivers a high level of client service and seeks to understand the client's motivations
• Demonstrates organization and an ability to adapt priorities in a dynamic environment
• Tracks issues and drives resolution

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Client or IB Middle Office experience
• Technical competency with VBA

About Us
J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world's most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals and institutional investors. Our first-class business in a first-class way approach to serving clients drives everything we do. We strive to build trusted, long-term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives.
We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.
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.