Equity Risk Trader - Associate/ Vice President

This role sits within the front office and will be working on a dynamic and busy trading floor.

The Equities business at J.P. Morgan provides a full complement of equity and equity-linked solutions to institutional investor clients from ideas and insights from top-ranked analysts, to high-touch sales and trading services, to world-class algorithmic and electronic trading capabilities. Our sales and trading professionals work in coordination with our capital markets professionals to help issuers access the equity markets as a top-tier equity underwriter.

As an Associate/ Vice President in the High Touch Cash Equities Risk trading team, you will work alongside and collaborate with Central Risk Book, Program Trading, Quant Research and Technology to help the High Touch business price, hedge and unwind client linked risk in a more efficient manner whilst being an active participant in the generation of new and optimization of current inventory management strategies.

Job Responsibilities

• Work with the High Touch Cash Trading team to use a quantitative approach to improve the pricing, hedging and unwind of client delivered risk
• Work with colleagues in Quantitative research and technology to develop new and improve existing tools that help source and analyze new and existing trades & strategies
• Assist senior traders in the evaluation of new trading ideas and strategies
• Develop a comprehensive understanding of the block trade lifecycle and work proactively to improve all aspects of it
• Use existing markets & trading expertise to grow into a key member of the team with responsibilities for managing and overseeing a range of exposures across APAC
• Research, backtest & implement liquidity provision strategies.
• Constant interaction with the cash equity, derivatives & delta-1 trading and sales trading desks in the context of daily trades and the broader trading relationship.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Advanced quantitative degree; an academic background with Buy or sell-side experience is desired
• Experience risk managing portfolios, understanding of factor risk modelling
• Exposure to statistical modelling, time series or other data modelling experience
• Very self-motivated, willing to be part of a very dynamic and ambitious team
• Confident communication skills - must be able to effectively engage with a diverse set of partners and dependents to the High Touch Cash Trading team efforts
• Coding ability & experience;

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Python
• Knowledge of kdb/q is highly advantageous

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.

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ABOUT THE TEAM

The Corporate & Investment Bank is a global leader across investment banking, wholesale payments, markets and securities services. The world's most important corporations, governments and institutions entrust us with their business in more than 100 countries. We provide strategic advice, raise capital, manage risk and extend liquidity in markets around the world.