Lead Credit Risk - Vice President
JPMorganChase
Are you interested in contributing to keeping JP Morgan Chase strong and resilient? As part of Risk Management, 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 is all about thinking outside the box, challenging the status quo and striving to be best-in-class.
As a Vice President in the Risk Management and Compliance team, you will supervise a portfolio of institutional and corporate clients across various industries. You will lead due diligence, structuring, and documentation for transactions, and provide forward-looking credit analysis to support business decisions. You will collaborate closely with stakeholders and contribute to the development of junior team members, all while helping us maintain a strong and resilient risk culture.
Job responsibilities
- Supervise and manage an assigned portfolio of institutional and corporate clients across a range of industries
- Lead due diligence, structuring, and documentation for transactions
- Review credit analysis and financial modeling to provide insights into clients’ industries and key business and financial risks
- Exercise meaningful credit approval authority
- Collaborate with transaction stakeholders, including client coverage, product bankers, credit executives, and legal counsel
- Review credit and regulatory reporting requirements
- Mentor and develop junior team members
- Track market and industry developments and assess their impact on clients
- Recommend and monitor internal credit ratings
- Support the team with ongoing ad-hoc initiatives and workstreams
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Undergraduate or postgraduate qualifications in accounting, business, finance, or a quantitative discipline
- Minimum of 8 years’ experience in a credit risk or credit analysis role within corporate, institutional, or investment banking
- Strong credit risk analysis skills, including both qualitative and quantitative analysis
- In-depth understanding of products across Australian debt markets and derivatives, as well as related documentation
- Ability to identify key issues and concerns related to clients, industries, and transaction structures
- Excellent written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills
- Strong time management skills and ability to manage multiple workstreams in a fast-paced environment
- Ability to build relationships and interact confidently with origination teams and other internal stakeholders
- High proficiency in MS Excel for financial modeling, as well as other MS programs (PowerPoint, Word, Outlook)
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Experience mentoring and developing junior team members
- Familiarity with regulatory reporting requirements
- Demonstrated ability to think creatively and challenge the status quo
- Experience working in a dynamic and growing team environment
- Strong stakeholder management skills
- Ability to adapt to changing priorities and workstreams
- Professional qualifications from reputable training institutes or professional bodies
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.
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.
Join a dynamic team and help drive responsible growth by managing credit risk for institutional and corporate clients.