Credit Risk Management and Analytics Senior Associate

Job Description

Job summary

As part of Risk Management and Compliance, you are at the center of keeping JPMorgan Chase strong and resilient. You help the firm grow its business in a responsible way by anticipating new and emerging risks, and using your expert judgement to solve real-world challenges that impact our company, customers and communities. Our culture in Risk Management and Compliance is all about thinking outside the box, challenging the status quo and striving to be best-in-class.

As a Credit Risk Management and Analytics Senior Associate, you help us measure, monitor, and communicate credit and market risk across marketable-securities-backed lending, capital markets, and derivatives activity. You work with partners across risk, lending and trading solutions, lending teams, investors, and finance to help ensure collateral frameworks, stress testing, and risk appetite measurement are robust and timely. You join a global, delegated coverage model spanning multiple regions, where we actively manage risk through proactive analytics and high industry standards. You will guide decision-making by translating fast-moving market events into practical risk insights and clear recommendations.

Job responsibilities/Job Responsibilities

• Act as CRMA methodology expert for assigned regions/product desks, advising front-office lending and investment decisions.

• Support deal execution by constructing lending values for new/complex asset classes, structures, and strategies.

• Partner with Quantitative Research to review and recommend monthly lending value changes and communicate outcomes to senior risk/business leadership.

• Monitor global markets and develop expertise in market dynamics, scenario construction, and event interpretation.

• Assess event impacts on lending values, margin requirements, and client exposures; produce oversight analytics and reporting.

• Support coverage of loans secured by marketable securities by analyzing collateral market/liquidity Risk, client credit profiles, and client strategies.

• Assist senior team members with Market Risk Oversight and Reg Reporting and new-initiative limit design, monitoring, and reporting.

• Present analyses and recommendations to CRMA leadership and cross-functional decision forums (risk and front office).

• Deliver and support stress testing (baseline and ad-hoc), including inputs to regulatory exercises (e.g., CCAR) and risk appetite evaluations.

• Develop, review, and challenge lending value/initial margin and stress-testing models, methodologies, assumptions, and analytic tools with QR/credit risk/front office partners.

• Drive operational and analytic innovation, including control framework design/implementation, data research for new architectures, and new reporting/metric capabilities.

Required qualifications, capabilities and skills

• Qualified graduate with minimum of 6 years of experience in an analytical, technical, trading, or research-oriented role 

• Academic background in, or professional experience with, financial mathematics, quantitative risk methodologies, and/or data science 

• Broad financial product knowledge required, professional experience in credit risk management, market risk management, or with derivatives a plus 

• Practical knowledge of Python and associated data analytics packages (preferably in a professional environment) 

• Practical knowledge of Tableau or other Business Intelligence (BI) / Data Visualization Tools 

• Practical knowledge of Microsoft office suite (Excel/PowerPoint/Word) 

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

• Good team player, and high sense of ownership