Risk Management - Credit Risk Associate - Financial Institutions Group

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 Credit Risk Associate on the Commercial and Investment (CIB) Risk Asset Managers Credit team, you will assist in the management of a client portfolio of asset manager and fund exposures, serving as key coverage for those credit relationships and reporting into a Credit Executive.

Managing a client portfolio entails overseeing transaction structures, performing client due diligence and analysis and ongoing monitoring of exposure emanating from traditional bank lending products, structured financing as well as counterparty trading activities.

Our team manages exposure to North American based Traditional and Alternative Asset Management firms, Private Capital Sponsors and related client entities that are that are industry leaders engaging across the spectrum of investment strategies.

Job responsibilities


* Perform client due diligence and analysis, summarize in written credit approval memos and reviews including communication to senior management


* Review and recommend approval for counterparty trading activity, including recommending collateral requirements as well as structural enhancements


* Develop credit expertise in structuring both loan and derivative transactions


* Set and communicate credit exposure appetite across trading products utilizing internal exposure methodologies


* Assist in legal negotiations for traded products and traditional lending


* Serve as key secondary contact for and partner with colleagues from Markets Trading and Structuring, Prime Brokerage, Investor Client Management, Treasury & Security Services, Legal, Investment Bank Coverage, and Debt Capital Markets


* Assess and recommend appropriate credit ratings


* Maintain updated credit research on a portfolio of clients and serve in group wide efficiency projects and remain current on all aspects of the credit relationship, including exposure, threshold management, compliance, potential problems and opportunities


* Help lead credit due diligence for bank and bond executions in tandem with M&A transactions, LBOs, and portfolio refinancings


* Supervise, review and provide input to analyst team members and seeks credit and regulatory approval for all transactions individually or as part of a deal team


* Perform Agent role for closed syndicated transactions, including negotiating and documenting amendments and waivers

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills


* Bachelor's degree


* 3+ years of cre...