Keen to have a front-row seat to global equity markets, risk and trading activity?
As an Associate in Equities Market Risk, you'll work alongside trading businesses to understand, challenge, and manage market risks across a wide range of equity products. You'll develop deep market expertise, build advanced analytical skills, and help shape the decisions that influence risk-taking across one of the world's leading financial institutions. This is a unique opportunity to combine financial markets, quantitative analysis, data, and technology. Sitting close to trading activity while maintaining independent oversight, you'll play a key role in ensuring risks are understood, controlled, and effectively communicated.
Being part of the Equities Market Risk team, you will help identify, assess, and challenge market risks across a broad range of equity products. Working closely with trading businesses, you will provide independent risk oversight, deliver risk insights to stakeholders, and contribute to risk-based decision making. You will participate in scenario analysis, stress testing, and risk reporting while helping enhance risk management tools, analytics, and processes. This role offers the opportunity to develop expertise in financial markets, quantitative risk analysis, and emerging technologies that support the evolution of risk management.
Job responsibilities
- Provide independent oversight of market risk across equity trading activities.
- Monitor and assess potential losses arising from movements in equity prices, volatility, correlation, and other market risk factors.
- Transform complex risk analysis into clear, actionable insights that support business and senior management decision-making.
- Partner closely with trading desks, providing constructive challenge while maintaining a strong control framework.
- Lead scenario analysis and stress testing to evaluate the impact of market shocks and identify potential vulnerabilities.
- Assess tail-risk exposures and emerging market trends to help ensure trading activities remain within approved risk appetite and limits.
- Contribute to the design and enhancement of risk management frameworks, analytics, and reporting.
- Build and improve next-generation risk tools using automation, machine learning, data science, and AI technologies.
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Strong quantitative skills with confidence working analytically with numbers, models, and complex problems.
- Demonstrated interest in financial markets and risk management, with a willingness to learn market risk concepts and traded products.
- Ability to identify process improvements and contribute ideas to enhance existing practices.
- Ability to manage priorities independently and deliver high-quality results.
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Ability to use coding tools for analysis and automation, including working with datasets, building repeatable workflows or tools, and producing clear, auditable outputs.
- Experience building or meaningfully experimenting with large language model-based solutions, including agentic workflows, with the ability to evaluate outputs critically and apply appropriate controls and judgment.
- Knowledge of Market Risk and /or Equities products
About UsJ.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.
Skills Required
- Strong quantitative skills and confidence working analytically with numbers, models, and complex problems
- Demonstrated interest in financial markets and risk management, with willingness to learn market risk concepts and traded products
- Ability to identify process improvements and contribute ideas to enhance existing practices
- Ability to manage priorities independently and deliver high-quality results
- Ability to use coding tools for analysis and automation, including datasets, repeatable workflows, tools, and auditable outputs
- Experience building or experimenting with large language model-based solutions, including agentic workflows, and evaluating outputs critically with appropriate controls
- Knowledge of market risk and/or equities products
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is considered comprehensive, including medical, dental, and vision, alongside wellness and mental health resources. Some locations add onsite health centers and related wellbeing support.
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Retirement Support — Retirement offerings include a 401(k)-type savings plan and related financial benefits, with options such as employee stock purchase participation. Financial planning resources are also highlighted to support long-term savings.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave of 16 weeks for birth or adoption is available for all parents. Child care and back-up child care resources further reinforce family support.
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