Pricing Direct - Securities Valuation - Analyst

Be part of JPMorgan Chase that continuously grows! Through periods of volatility and uncertainty, market participants are always in need of independent, reliable, and accurate securities valuation services. With offices in New York, London, and Hong Kong, JPMorgan’s Pricing Direct employees serve our clients globally by providing them evaluated pricing on over two million fixed income securities and derivative instruments every day.

As a Pricing Direct Securities Valuation Analyst, you will gain access to trading, research, analytics, and technology resources of JPMorgan Chase. You will combine your financial knowledge and programming skills to manage large volumes of data, develop and maintain accurate pricing models, and identify growth areas. If you are results-oriented, intellectually curious, and enjoy working in a collaborative team environment where your contributions directly impact our business, you are encouraged to apply.

• Daily generation of securities valuations for multiple market closes, entailing start-to-end ownership responsibilities, including: market data collection and analysis, price generation, quality control, and client interaction.
• Examine and develop new areas of product growth through independent self-guided research, interactions with clients, JPMorgan trading desks, research professionals, and technology teams.
• Continuously improve product and service quality through daily market surveillance, communication with market participants, data and financial analysis, review of process controls, and data quality assurance.
• Perform complex financial assignments, including quantitative and information/data analysis.
• Provide in-depth analysis of portfolios of securities, communicating in detail to colleagues and clients.
• Develop and maintain regular contact with trading desks, research teams, and other market participants.
• Address all client concerns in a timely and professional manner.

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Finance, Mathematics, Statistics, Engineering, Economics, or similar
• Firm understanding of principles of finance, mathematical, and/or statistical modeling
• Strong qualitative and quantitative analytical skills with the ability to process large amounts of market information
• Significant practical experience programming with Python
• Proficiency in Excel with Visual Basic coding experience
• Excellent communication skills to interact with clients, portfolio managers, traders, research, and sales

• Experience with MBS/ABS/securitized products a strong plus
• Detail oriented, creative problem solver with ability to learn quickly, multi-task, and self-manage priorities under rapidly changing and flexible timelines
• Ability to build effective working relationships and interact comfortably with a wide spectrum of counter parties, including fixed-income research teams, sales personnel, traders, portfolio managers, and technologists
• Clear, logical thinker with strong quantitative abilities