Risk Reporting - Market Risk Middle Office

Job Description
Joining the Market Risk Middle Office means joining a global team, a team that takes pride in its role as part of the second line of defence for JPMorganChase. Analysts in the Market Risk Middle Office have ample opportunity to learn and develop, as the team supports a wide range of risks across all the Businesses the bank has to offer.
As a Risk Reporting - Market Risk Middle Office Analyst within the Market Risk Middle Office team, you will be tasked with conducting control checks to pinpoint data quality issues within the firm's risk data. This role is crucial as the risk data is utilized to back investment decisions and, more significantly, provided to regulators. Our team in Bournemouth is responsible for supporting data quality checks for VaR based measures including RegVaR and Stressed Var, in addition to other risk measures such as Default Exposure, Stress-Testing, and Volcker, as well as for the firm's internal Capital Model.
Job responsibilities:

• Perform daily data quality checks on VaR, Stress and other market risk measures within agreed controls.
• Identify drivers of changes in market risk measures and reach out to appropriate stakeholders to understand its validity.
• Remediate data quality issues in line with agreements with Product Controllers, MR Coverage and/or MRBG.
• Research, resolve, and escalate Line of Business, Market Risk Management and Audit inquiries.
• Maintain daily procedure manuals, ensuring that all local regulatory requirements are met.
• Build effective partnerships with the Market Risk Coverage, Product Control, Market Risk Technology, Market Risk Basel Group, Market Risk Quantitative Research and Market Risk Reporting teams.
• Ensure that all processes are run in the most effective, efficient, and timely manner to meet all SLAs.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

• Ability to understand business processes and their risk implications, analyse complex situations, reach appropriate conclusions, and make value-added and practical recommendations.
• Professional, self-motivated, and adaptable person
• Ability to work and solve problems independently, be able to work in a deadline-oriented environment working with large amounts of data, and be able to dynamically prioritise workload.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to create and present training materials.
• Excellent interpersonal skills: ability to develop effective credible relationships with the business and functional partners.
• Strong proficiency in Microsoft Excel is required, proficiency using other Microsoft products including PowerPoint, Word, and Outlook.
• Strong team player who can work well with colleagues of various levels and internal clients across regions.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

• A reasonable understanding of VaR, Stress and other Market Risk measures.
• Familiarity with the concept of PnL's, and how they contribute to VaR.
• Experience with VBA or other coding languages.

About Us
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.
We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.
About the Team
Our professionals in our Corporate Functions cover a diverse range of areas from finance and risk to human resources and marketing. Our corporate teams are an essential part of our company, ensuring that we're setting our businesses, clients, customers and employees up for success.
Risk Management helps the firm understand, manage and anticipate risks in a constantly changing environment. The work covers areas such as evaluating country-specific risk, understanding regulatory changes and determining credit worthiness. Risk Management provides independent oversight and maintains an effective control environment.