Job Description

Join our team to build your career in a culture that values innovation, creativity, and excellence. As a n Associate or Vice President Strategic Index Trader, you will help drive strategic initiatives, scale market execution, and enhance risk management processes. You’ll collaborate with sales, structuring, and technology teams in a client-focused, non-proprietary trading environment. This is your opportunity to make a significant impact, develop your expertise, and grow your career in a dynamic and supportive team.

As a Strategic Index Trader – Associate or Vice President in the Commodity Indices team, you will price vanilla and exotic structures on indices, manage daily risk for the Commodity Index book, and participate in strategic initiatives to improve business architecture. You will work closely with traders, operations, and infrastructure groups to support a “one team” approach, and help develop automated tools to enhance the risk management platform. Your role will be central to delivering innovative solutions and driving business growth.

Job responsibilities

• Price vanilla and exotic structures on indices.
• Manage daily risk for the Commodity Index book (linear and non-linear).
• Collaborate with operations and infrastructure groups to support a “one team” approach.
• Participate in strategic initiatives to improve and evolve processes and business architecture.
• Work closely with traders to develop automated tools and enhance the risk management platform.
  

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience in pricing and risk management of linear and non-linear payoffs.
• Extensive understanding of technical aspects of exotics risk management.
• Good understanding of commodities market structure.
• Clear communication skills and ability to collaborate, explain, and challenge as appropriate.
• Strong problem-solving, control, and project management skills.
  

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience in managing a risk book in commodities.
• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Mathematics, or a related field.
• Familiarity with systematic strategies and index trading.
  

This role encompasses the performance of regulated activity. The successful candidate will therefore be subject to meeting regulatory requirements in the assessment of fitness, propriety, knowledge and competence (as assessed by the Firm) and (where appropriate) approval by the relevant regulatory authorities to carry out such activities

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.