As a Risk Management - Market Risk Coverage Lead - Vice President, you will participate in all risk related matters (including monitoring and forecasting). Working in Risk Management will give the successful candidate an opportunity to work alongside professionals across all levels and regions with commensurate exposure to senior portfolio managers in an area of the Firm that covers the spectrum of asset classes and financial products. It is an ideal location in the Firm to obtain broad perspective of Firmwide risk management decisions. The position also offers opportunities for significant visibility to senior management.

Chief Investment Office, Treasury and Corporate (CTC) Risk manages the risk of the retained portfolio generated from the Chief Investment Office (CIO), Global Treasury, and “other” Corporate businesses (Firm-wide Pension Plan, Insurance programs, and Mortgage Servicing Rights). 

The Chief Investment Office (CIO) manages the firm's structural interest rate and foreign exchange risks, and conservatively invests the firm’s excess deposits. Interest rate risk is managed primarily via investment securities and interest rate derivatives as tools to manage the firm's asset liability mismatch. The firm’s non-USD foreign exchange risk is managed through specifically defined hedging mandates. The Chief Investment Office (CIO) also manages the JP Morgan Retirement Plan and hedges the firm's Mortgage Servicing Rights. 

Treasury manages the firm’s capital, balance sheet, liquidity and funding strategy and positions, including short dated and secured funding, debt and capital issuance and buybacks, and liquidity risk management, as well as the company’s rating agency relationships and corporate insurance activities. 

The CTC Chief Risk Officer (CRO) reports to the Firmwide CRO and is responsible for the end to end risk framework for the CTC line of business; including, but not limited to, Market Risk, Credit Risk, Liquidity Risk, Interest Rate Risk, Operational Risk, Pensions and BOLI COLI, Country Risk, Principal Risk, and Model Risk. 

Job responsibilities

Report and monitor market risk positions - with the aim to identify material risk exposures and concentrations. Conduct ad hoc risk analysis, develop improvements of daily risk reports, and VaR and Stress analysis toolsMonitor risk exposures, understand the factors that drive the risk and P&L on the books, follow market movement/activities affecting positions, highlight and discuss risk changes and top risksTrack of market developments/moves vis-à-vis business risksImprove risk transparency, methodologies and reports by conducting deep-dives on various basis risks, curve risks, specific structure risks etcAssist the execution of key processes around risk sensitivities, reporting, Profit and Loss Analysis, and discuss the analysis and results with traders, providing support for conclusions and escalating as necessaryPerform and validate quarterly stress testing and participate in analysis of business results as well as contribution to aggregate stress resultsTest and provide feedback to the Technology team around ongoing technology projects to automate processesWork on projects to develop innovate, new risk measures and implement best practice methodologiesPartner with different risk teams, quantitative research, and the model governance group on issues regarding riskDevelop strong relationships with key front office personnel, finance, audit and risk partners throughout the firmRepresent Market risk in various related initiatives and ensure that the projects are delivered in a timely manner

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

Strong analytical and critical thinking skills, as well as a high level of self-initiative required, including an ability to balance and execute multiple projects at once and deliver results under tight time constraintsUnderstanding of the governance and controls surrounding risk monitoring including, VaR, stress testing, various return measures and experience with stress constructionUnderstanding of fixed income/securitization markets and FX (Bonds, swaps, MBS, FX Fwds, FX swaps etc)Understanding or risk sensitivities related to these financial productsExcellent oral and written communication skillsStrong technical skills in Excel/Access/VBA/BloombergStrong coding skills in Python or SQL