Commercial and Investment Bank - Fixed Income Portfolio Trading - Associate

Job Description
We are one of the world's largest trading firms, renowned globally for our breadth of services and unparalleled expertise. We make markets in virtually all major asset classes while engineering complex financial solutions to manage risk, enhance yield and solve clients' complex financial problems. Globally, we hold leadership positions across the equity and fixed income product spectrum with hubs in three global regions: the Americas, Europe and Asia Pacific. We are also a leading innovator in the derivative market, structuring derivatives to manage risk, enhance yield and solve clients' complex financial problems. Markets on the rise include futures & options, as well as commodities.
Job summary
As an Associate in Fixed Income Portfolio Trading, you will help senior traders cover institutional accounts and make markets in your group's particular range of products. You will assist the team in processing, structuring and marketing portfolio trades across asset classes and you may support all aspects of the portfolio trading desk: pre-trade analysis, research on index constituent changes, inbound and outbound trade processing and the design of optimal strategies for portfolio trades. Tracking supply and demand, you constantly evaluate market developments in order to give clients and team-mates accurate product information.
Associates within the Sales & Trading teams work with top professionals to advise and facilitate transactions with a variety of institutional clients comprising of banks, fund managers, pension funds, insurance companies and hedge funds. You will learn how capital flows from the world's largest institutional investors to its most prominent borrowers and issuers.
Job responsibilities

• Assist the senior trader in covering institutional accounts and making markets within your group's specific range of products.
• Help the team with processing, structuring, and marketing portfolio trades across various asset classes.
• Support all aspects of the portfolio trading desk, including pre-trade analysis, research on index constituent changes, inbound and outbound trade processing, and the design of optimal strategies for portfolio trades

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• You demonstrate entrepreneurial drive with strong analytical and quantitative skills
• You are someone who thrives on the challenge of competitive pressures and is able to remain focused on client needs
• You have an excellent communication skills and works well with colleagues in a fast-paced environment
• You demonstrate expertise in Bloomberg, Excel, Power Point and MS Office skills
• You demonstrate experience in similar role
• You demonstrate superior time management and multi-tasking skills to juggle live transactions and daily tasks
• You demonstrate maturity and the ability to succeed in a dynamic, fast-paced and open environment

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• You demonstrate experience in similar role in trading
• You demonstrate Fixed income and programming experience

This role encompasses the performance of UK regulated activity. The successful candidate will therefore be subject to meeting UK regulatory requirements in the assessment of fitness, propriety, knowledge and competence (as assessed by the Firm) and (where appropriate) approval by the UK Financial Conduct Authority and/or the Prudential Regulation Authority to carry out such activities.
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
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.