Risk Management - Counterparty Credit Risk Senior Associate
Plano, TX, USA
Bring your Expertise to JPMorganChase. As part of Risk Management and Compliance, you are at the center of keeping JPMorganChase 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 Counterparty Credit Risk Senior Associate in the risk management and Compliance team, you will support traded products risk analysis across diverse client portfolios. You partner with Sales, Trading, Credit Officers, Quantitative Research, Technology, and Operations to monitor counterparty exposures, size limits, and strengthen exposure methodologies and tooling. You help us translate complex risk signals into clear risk appetite views, credible challenge, and timely reporting. You contribute to firmwide initiatives and workflow improvements that enhance transparency, controls, and efficiency.
Job responsibilities:
- Support traded products counterparty risk analysis in partnership with Sales, Trading, and Credit Officers across client portfolios
- Operate effectively in a fast-paced environment, managing workload and collaborating to deliver team outcomes
- Perform deep dives on counterparty exposure and risk topics and provide guidance to Credit Officers on methodology changes and model limitations
- Contribute to exposure methodology and policy updates by partnering with risk stakeholders
- Manage and contribute to firmwide initiatives that enhance key counterparty exposure metrics and technical capabilities
- Identify, analyze, monitor, and report inherent risks within counterparty exposures with strong ownership and follow-through
- Form risk appetite views and provide credible challenge to business stakeholders’ risk-related questions
- Partner with front office, credit risk, and operations teams to evaluate limit sizing and risk appetite for new and existing clients
- Drive adoption of artificial intelligence-enabled approaches that improve team workflows and processes
- Partner with quantitative research and technology teams to continuously improve exposure methodologies and tools
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills:
- 3 plus years of experience in risk management, quantitative finance, financial engineering, financial mathematics, or data analytics
- Working knowledge of over-the-counter derivatives across multiple asset classes
- Basic to moderate experience with coding and data platforms and languages such as Python, Tableau, or Alteryx
- Strong execution skills demonstrated through constructive listening, collaboration, and delivering to objectives
- Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint
- Familiarity with effective use of artificial intelligence prompts and training approaches
- Strong organizational, control, project management, communication, and negotiation skills
- Ability to work independently with limited guidance
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills:
- Strong accountability and ownership with a self-motivated, diligent work style
- Strong problem-solving skills with ability to challenge the status quo and improve efficiency
- Ability to make and defend risk judgments with clear rationale
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including explaining technical concepts to non-specialists
- Ability to think independently and innovate
- Chartered Financial Analyst or Financial Risk Manager certification
We offer a competitive total rewards package including base salary determined based on the role, experience, skill set and location. Those in eligible roles may receive commission-based pay and/or discretionary incentive compensation, paid in the form of cash and/or forfeitable equity, awarded in recognition of individual achievements and contributions. We also offer a range of benefits and programs to meet employee needs, based on eligibility. These benefits include comprehensive health care coverage, on-site health and wellness centers, a retirement savings plan, backup childcare, tuition reimbursement, mental health support, financial coaching and more. Additional details about total compensation and benefits will be provided during the hiring process.
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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.
Analyze counterparty credit exposure for traded products, partnering with front office to set limits and strengthen risk methodologies.