Risk Analyst jobs in Mesa, AZ

Overview: 

The Treasury and the Chief Investment Office (TCIO) within JPMorgan is responsible for firm wide asset and liability management for one of the world’s largest global financial institutions with a $2.5 trillion balance sheet, including more than $900 billion in loans and $1.4 trillion in deposits.  Because it sits at the very center of the firm, TCIO directly influences the composition of the firm’s balance sheet as well the activities of the firm’s four main lines of business (LOBs): Asset & Wealth Management, Commercial Banking, Corporate & Investment Bank, and Consumer & Community Banking. 

The Corporate Treasury Middle Office (CTMO) is part of the TCIO organization and provides support for the Firm in regards to both liquidity and structural interest rate risk (SIRR) reporting.  Key responsibilities include:   

• Overseeing the operating model that supports the aggregation of data used in the Firm’s risk reporting process (i.e. balance sheet detail, forecasts, and assumptions).  This includes the execution of key data integrity controls, reconciliations, adjustments, and analytics.
• Coordinating the production of several Firmwide, LOB, and Legal Entity level risk reports (i.e. 6G, LCR, Stress, EaR, DV01, EVS) by agreed upon deadlines. This involves working with contacts globally to quickly research and explain variances in key risk measures and to facilitate sign-off by senior risk stakeholders prior to report distribution internally and to regulators.
• Partnering with internal data source providers and risk stakeholders across all lines of business to complete data investigations and resolve data quality issues with the goal of improving the timeliness and accuracy of all risk reporting on a continual basis.
• Responding to internal or regulatory requests to complete ad hoc data analysis or produce custom reports as needed.

The team has locations in North America (Delaware, Arizona, and NY Metro), Europe (UK, Poland) and Asia (Hong Kong, India).

Responsibilities:

The candidate will be responsible for the following:

• Review, adjust and attest to the quality of liquidity risk data daily across all entities in the firm
• Perform product reconciliations & assist with daily balance sheet variance analysis
• Perform data analysis to identify & implement business validation rules to support transition to an exception based operating model 
• Identifying improvements and leverage available toolsets (Alteryx, Xceptor, Abacus, Tableau, Excel, Access, Python) to own and implement changes through to completion
• Determine business drivers behind variances and communicate impact to partner groups such as Liquidity Risk Oversight and Liquidity Management
• Support LRI tech/business enhancements and assisting in technology related developments, ensuring appropriate prioritization and end user testing
• Continually identify and enhance the overall control environment and operating model across the core operational activities, improving timeliness and reducing operational risk to the firm 
• Prepare key performance indicators or metrics and present to senior management

The chosen candidate will have an opportunity to:

• Improve their understanding of asset and liability management principles for a large financial institution with a balance sheet in excess of 2.5 trillion.
• Develop a good understanding of the key risk measures used by a financial institution to manage interest rate risk and liquidity exposure. 
• Stay connected to changes in the industry and the regulatory landscape as they apply to liquidity and interest rate risk. 
• Interact with senior executives and external regulators on a frequent basis as part of ad hoc analysis requests.
• Become an expert in data management and analysis while improving their technical and programming skills with analytical and business intelligence tools such as MS Excel\Access, Tableau, Xceptor, Alteryx, VBA, and Python. 

Qualifications:

• 0 – 4 years’ experience in financial operations specifically in financial reporting, balance sheet analysis and\or asset and liability or liquidity management.
• Strong analytical skills including the ability to complete data investigations and summarize findings in a clear and meaningful way.
• Proven leadership experience including ability to facilitate project and process improvements across a large organization.
• Strong technical skills (particularly in MS Excel). 
• Independent critical thinking, problem-solving and decision making talents.
• Ability to work under pressure, prioritize, multitask, and bring tasks to complete closure.
• Organized and able to execute responsibilities with minimal supervision.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with ability to prepare executive level presentations.