Fund Operations - Securities Pricing Associate

Job Description
We are welcoming you to join one of the world's top five most admired and prominent companies. We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. Come join us to be the best financial services company in the world which is formed to foster a creative, inclusive work environment that always values employees' personal and professional development.
As an Securities Pricing Associate in our Securities Valuation team, you will be responsible to capture and validate security prices that are used to calculate and submit a mutual fund's Net Assets Value (NAV) for a number of clients. You will be spending your time for analyzing pricing movements against market expectations and liaising with pricing vendors to resolve issues and minimize risks associated with it by adopting process improvement attitude. You would be the perfect fit for us if you have great attention to details, ability to deliver time sensitive tasks, and have a passion to drive solutions across organizational boundaries. Securities Valuations offers you the opportunity to work within a hybrid environment.
Job responsibilities:

• Be able to process and review security level prices provided by different pricing vendors
• Compare and contrast price changes with what the market anticipates
• Communicate with pricing vendors to solve problems and reduce risk
• Resolve internal client queries promptly and professionally
• Escalate all issues promptly and effectively to supervisor
• Contribute to ongoing developments of the pricing control process
• Be able to work accurately under pressure and meet deadlines.

Required qualifications, capabilities and skills:

• Bachelor degree with in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related disciplines
• Minimum of 3 years of experience in Securities Pricing or any functional domain under Fund Services.
• Mathematical mindset demonstrating strong numerical skills
• Demonstrate an understanding and interest in stocks, bonds, options, derivative, and financial markets and products
• Intermediate to Advanced Microsoft Excel skills, including pivot tables and v-look ups
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative and cross-functional environment
• Ability to synthesize large amounts of information to inform decisions in order to drive work forward
• Demonstrate ability to effectively communicate within a team environment and interact across departments.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

• Ability to work flexible working hours to cover occasional late finishes as demanded by the business.
• Demonstrate client focus, strong communication skills, and follow-up skills
• Ability to question, elicit, and drill down into both qualitative and quantitative data and concepts
• Experience using WINS/FIS InvestOne Accounting platform
• Experience using Pricing Vendor platforms like Bloomberg, Interactive Data Services and Reuters

About Us
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.
We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.
About the Team
J.P. Morgan's Commercial & Investment Bank is a global leader across banking, markets, securities services and payments. Corporations, governments and institutions throughout the world entrust us with their business in more than 100 countries. The Commercial & Investment Bank provides strategic advice, raises capital, manages risk and extends liquidity in markets around the world.