JPM PricingDirect Evaluator Analyst – SPG

Be part of JPMorgan Chase that continuously grows!  Through periods of volatility and uncertainty, market participants are always in need of independent, reliable, and accurate securities valuation services.  With offices in New York, London, and Hong Kong, JPMorgan’s PricingDirect employees serve our clients globally by providing them evaluated pricing on over two million fixed income securities and derivative instruments every day.

As a PricingDirect Securities Valuation Analyst, you will gain access to trading, research, analytics, and technology resources of JPMorgan Chase.  You will be given the opportunity to combine your knowledge of financial concepts with your programming skills to manage large volumes of data for developing and maintaining accurate pricing models.  As an Analyst, you will leverage your product and market knowledge to identify growth areas, lead projects, and deliver results for your team and your clients.  If you are results-oriented, intellectually curious, in pursuit of excellence, and enjoy working in a collaborative team environment where your contributions directly impact our business, you are encouraged to apply for this role.

Job responsibilities

• Daily generation of securities valuations for multiple market closes, entailing start-to-end ownership responsibilities, including: market data collection and analysis, price generation, quality control, and client interaction.
• Proficient in cashflow modeling for securitized products, with the ability to analyze and interpret complex deal structures and underlying asset performance.
• Examine and develop new areas of product growth through independent self-guided research, interactions with clients, JPMorgan trading desks, research professionals, and technology teams.
• Continuously improve product and service quality through daily market surveillance, communication with market participants, data and financial analysis, review of process controls, and data quality assurance
• Perform complex financial assignments, including quantitative and information/data analysis
• Provide in-depth analysis of portfolios of securities, communicating in detail to colleagues and clients
• Develop and maintain regular contact with trading desks, research teams, and other market participants
• Address all client concerns in a timely and professional manner

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Finance, Mathematics, Statistics, Engineering, Economics, or similar
• Firm understanding of principles of finance, mathematical and/or statistical modeling
• Strong qualitative and quantitative analytical skills with the ability to synthesize and integrate large amounts of market information.
• Proficiency in Excel and practical experience working with python 
• Excellent communication skills to interact with clients, portfolio managers, traders, research, and sales

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience with RMBS/ABS/securitized products a strong plus
• Master's degree in Finance, Mathematics, Statistics, Engineering, Economics, or similar
• Experience in programming language such as Python, VBA, SQL, and high aptitude for learning new technologies
• Detailed oriented, creative problem solver with ability to learn quickly, multi-task, and self-manage priorities under rapidly changing and flexible timelines
• Ability to build effective working relationships and interact comfortably with a wide spectrum of counterparties, including fixed-income research teams, sales personnel, traders, portfolio managers, and technologists
• Clear, logical thinker with strong quantitative abilities