Equity Derivatives Structured Drafting Associate

The role will involve daily interaction with Sales, Trading, Clients, Legal, Middle Office & Operations groups globally as well as frequent interaction with technology and project delivery teams with respect to drafting a range of structured equity underlying derivative confirmations.

You will need to have a clear understanding of Equity Derivatives trade flow and lifecycle event management to play a key role in developing new process and opportunities, perform root cause analysis, identify and implement solutions.

Job responsibilities

• Drafting a range of structured equity underlying derivative confirmations
• Provide support to assist resolution of documentation queries raised by various global affirmation documentation teams
• Ability to offer drafting support to in respect of vanilla and mid-structured products to other drafting teams
• Liaison with Sales, Trading, Legal and the client, as required, to draft structured confirmations with thorough risk terms to be as standard or enhanced terms
• Liaison with the Exotics Legal Team for template development/changes and escalation of queries
• Support continuous improvement program of Straight-through Processing and document generation

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Degree Educated
• Proven experience in a structured equity derivative documentation team
• Knowledge of various ISDA (International Swaps and Derivatives Association) Definitions publications
• Knowledge of an array of Over-the-counter structured products
• Clear communication skills to include ability to convey technical issues in straight forward manner
• Client focus
• Ability to demonstrate self-reliance whilst maintaining deliveries

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Knowledge of derivatives confirmations ISDA (International Swaps and Derivatives Association), Settlement workflow and Profit &Loss process would be advantageous

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. In accordance with applicable law, we make reasonable accommodations for applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as any mental health or physical disability needs.