Risk Management - Quant Modelling Senior Associate

Bring your Expertise to JPMorgan Chase.  As part of Risk Management and Compliance, you are at the center of keeping JPMorgan Chase strong and resilient. You help the firm grow its business in a responsible way by anticipating new and emerging risks, and using your expert judgement to solve real-world challenges that impact our company, customers and communities. Our culture in Risk Management and Compliance is all about thinking outside the box, challenging the status quo and striving to be best-in-class.

As a Risk Management - Quant Modelling Senior Associate within the MRGR CIO team, you will be responsible for overseeing model risk and conducting independent model reviews.. Model Risk arises from the potential adverse consequences of making decisions based on incorrect or misused model outputs and reports, leading to financial loss, poor business decision making, or reputational damage.

The Model Risk Governance and Review Group (MRGR) oversees model risk at the firm, conducts independent model reviews, and provides guidance around a model’s appropriate usage. MRGR is responsible for conducting model validation to help identify, measure, and mitigate Model Risk. The objective is to ensure that models are used appropriately in the business context and that model users are aware of the models' strengths and limitations and how these can impact their decisions.

Job Responsibilities

• Engage in typical model validation activities - evaluate conceptual soundness of model specification; reasonableness of assumptions and reliability of inputs; completeness of testing performed to support the correctness of the implementation; robustness of numerical aspects; suitability and comprehensiveness of performance metrics and risk measures associated with use of model.

• Perform additional model review activities ranging from proposing enhancements to existing models, assessing extensions to scope of existing models, developing benchmarking models.

• Liaise with Risk and Finance professionals to provide oversight of and guidance on appropriate usage, controls around model restrictions & limitations, and findings for ongoing performance assessment and testing

• Maintain model risk control apparatus of the bank for the coverage area, and serve as first point of contact

• Keep up with the latest developments in coverage area in terms of products, markets, models, risk management practices, and industry standards

Required qualifications, skills and capabilities

• Strong quantitative & analytical skills:  The role requires a strong quantitative background based on a PhD or MSc Degree (or equivalent) in a quantitative discipline such as Math, Science, Engineering, Quantitative/Math Finance, etc.

• Strong technical skills in derivative pricing with deep understanding of stochastic calculus

• Strong knowledge and/or experience with interest rate modelling (for fixed income vanilla product pricing) 

• Domain expertise in following areas: prepayment modeling across trading and traditional banking products, Interest Rate and Mortgage Backed Securities trading models.

• 1+ years of relevant working experience in areas such as Quantitative Model Development, Model Validation, Credit and/or Market Risk Management

• Strong communication skills and ability to interface with other functional areas in the bank on model-related issues

• Risk and control mindset: ability to ask incisive questions, converge on critical matters, assess materiality and escalate issues