What are the responsibilities and job description for the Stress Testing - Model Development Associate position at JPMorgan Chase?
The Commercial & Investment Bank (CIB) Treasury Stress Testing group is responsible for the Balance Sheet, Net Interest Income (NII), Fund Transfer Pricing (FTP), and Risk Weighted Asset (RWA) projections in CIB’s Quarterly Risk Appetite and Comprehensive Capital Analysis and Review (CCAR) exercises. Team members in this space are relentlessly curious and focus on creating well-controlled analytical environments. Team members have high exposure to senior management and are subject matter experts on the Balance Sheet, NII and FTP projections for one of the world’s pre-eminent financial institutions.
CIB Treasury Stress Testing is searching for a candidate to support its mission in providing best in class financial projections which support the Firm’s strategic decision making.
Job Responsibilities
- Support CCAR (Comprehensive Capital Analysis and Review) model enhancement/development (qualitative and quantitative based modeling using Python), execution, analysis and review
- Synthesize results from stress projections into holistic presentations for senior management
- Understand the interactions between different financial concepts on CIB’s stress projections – particularly in the Markets businesses
- Focus on process improvement – be part of a continuous improvement team which is moving towards automated, repeatable solutions
- Operate under tight timelines to comply with internal and regulatory-prescribed deadlines
- Manage interactions with partner teams which have competing or dual priorities
- Concisely convey topics to audiences with varying backgrounds on FTP / BS / NII
- Work closely with a global team operating on multiple continents
- Grow into a technical job area to become a subject matter expert
Required Qualifications, Skills, and Capabilities
- 2 years supporting a large financial services organization
- Familiarity and experience with Capital Stress Testing
- Knowledge or experience or familiarity to risk management
- Regression-based modeling experience
- A strong understanding of statistical concepts
- Coding experience, python greatly preferred
- Comfortable working autonomously in an unstructured environment
- Excellent organizational and problem-solving skills
- Proficient in Microsoft applications, specifically Excel and PowerPoint
- Ability to execute tasks under aggressive targets and effectively manage to changes in plan
- Ability to work under pressure and to strict deadlines with competing tasks
- Good organizational skills & planning ability; strong teamwork and communication skills
- Results oriented without compromising control
Preferred Qualifications, Skills, and Capabilities
- Experience in with Markets products
- Previous experience analyzing FTP/NII
- Knowledge of Commercial Investment Bank (CIB) products and Basel rules
- Statistical modeling and Python coding experience
