Trading Services Associate

Job Description
Join our team as a Trading Services Associate, where you will play a vital role in understanding trading structures and ensuring the accuracy and integrity of our transactions. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to strategic initiatives and enhance our business processes.
As a Trading Services Associate within Trading Servicing Team team, you will be responsible for understanding trading structures to accurately capture all transactions, complete reconciliation checks, and ensure controls are performed. You will collaborate with various teams to support a seamless trading process and contribute to strategic initiatives.
Job responsibilities:

• Timely and accurate captures of all transactions in the Risk Management Systems.
• Completes intraday/end-of-day processes, including completeness and reconciliation checks, to ensure accurate processing of new trading activity and general book management.
• Works closely with Operations functions and infrastructure groups to support a 'one team approach'.
• Ensures all controls are diligently performed, completed, and signed off on a timely basis.
• Communicates clearly and concisely with all support teams to ensure the timely and efficient resolution of queries.
• Participates and contributes to various strategic initiatives; continuously improve and evolve processes and business architecture.
• Builds an in-depth understanding of all trading structures from both a financial and operational perspective.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

• Understand all relevant derivatives and hedging products (e.g., Interest Rate Swaps, Basis Swaps, Cross Currency Swaps, Forward Rate Agreement (FRA), Foreign Exchange (FX), Zero Coupon and Overnight Index Swaps (OIS), Bond and Futures).
• Knowledge of the front-to-back Operations process, including key elements such as confirmations, settlements, and regulatory reporting, and facilitate issue resolution across teams.
• Understand the key elements of other infrastructure groups (e.g., Finance, Market Risk, Credit Risk, Operational Risk, Legal, Collateral) and recognize the impact of Trade Support team actions on these areas.
• Must have clear communication skills and an ability to use these to work collaboratively, explain, and challenge as appropriate.
• Attention to detail and a sense of ownership.
• Great team player able to work in a pressurized and changing environment.
• Possess strong analytical and numerical skills.
• Strong problem-solving, control, and project management skills.
• Strong technical skills, especially in Excel.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

• Experience in process improvement and strategic initiatives.
• Ability to adapt to changing priorities and work under tight deadlines.
• Experience in building strong collaborative relationships across teams.
• VBA knowledge

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.