eFinancialCareers

• Company

  JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A

• Location

  UK-London

• Compensation

  Competitive, Exceptional Benefits

• Position Type

  Permanent

• Employment type

  Full time

• Updated

  19 Nov 2009

• eFC Ref no

  584521

Our investment professionals are located around the world providing strategies that span the full spectrum of asset classes including equity, fixed income, cash liquidity, currency, real estate, infrastructure, hedge funds and private equity.  Specific products may differ by market. The Business Function Data Management - Pricing Team is responsible for overseeing internal pricing for a broad range of asset types, both listed and OTC on a daily basis through various controls and checks. Additionally, the team is also responsible for manually pricing some asset types within our portfolios. There is daily interaction with various internal and external departments globally including Portfolio Managers, Risk, Performance, Trading desks, Fund Accountants, Product development & regional pricing groups. The Role Associate grade reporting directly to the Pricing Team Manager. Required Experience 

• Diverse understanding of Fixed Income and Equity Price valuation
• Understanding of various market wide Corporate Action events and theoretical pricing of assets generated from Corporate Actions
• Experience with fair value pricing of illiquid and unlisted asset
• Good understanding of a variety of OTC Derivative asset type pricing
• Experience in verification and validation processes for various asset pricing
• Experience with developing and implementing appropriate processes for reviewing exceptions and control processes and performing root cause analysis
• Experience at using various market vendor terminals such as Bloomberg, FT, Reuters etc
• Background in delivering business change initiatives including process re-engineering
• Ideal candidate will have previous experience either from Asset Management, Fund accounting, Hedge Funds or market vendors
• Knowledge and practical understanding of Financial Services Industry
• Good technical ability with core Microsoft products
• Strong communications skills both written and verbal
• Experience in liaising pro-actively with Portfolio Managers, Traders, Fund Accountants, Pricing Vendors and Operations teams on reported incidents relating to pricing through to full resolution, including procedure, process review and re-training when necessary

Desired Experience 

• Fair Value adjustment pricing at both individual asset and Fund level.
• Coding and developing initiatives with Microsoft Access and Visual Basic.
• Developing download tools from vendor systems such as Bloomberg and Reuters.
• Skills with writing and running SQL database queries

The individual should be progressive, motivated and assertive with good core experience in the asset pricing. The candidate must be able to respond to the dynamic changes that can happen on a day to day basis from fluctuating market conditions to new Derivative products being scoped for possible trading. The individual must be able to locate and analyse challenges and suggest solutions on a variety of different product types being priced. They can speak with confidence to both other members of the team and senior management including Front Office traders, Risk, Performance and Portfolio managers. Day to day tasks will include verifying price movements on all assets classes, price challenging outsource data providers, validating Corporate Action theoretical pricing, reviewing pricing of fair valued and unlisted securities, reporting metrics and assisting in compiling month end reports to senior management on non standard priced assets. The team has recently gone through a restructure and is driving forwards with a series of new initiatives in the Pricing world. The candidate is expected to bring drive and enthusiasm to the development of controls and policies, and a consistent track record in delivering within agreed deadlines.