Asset Management Alternatives Investment Risk - Vice President
London, UK
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 Vice President in Asset Management Risk, you will play a key role in managing investment risks across our Private Credit Funds within the Alternatives Business. This position combines rigorous analysis with strategic collaboration to support sound risk management practices.
You will conduct comprehensive risk analysis including market risk monitoring, liquidity assessment, and portfolio risk analysis, drawing on continuous market observations and informed insights. Working closely with investment teams and control functions, you will help develop and maintain risk frameworks that support our investment activities and contribute to the establishment of risk parameters for new products and business initiatives as the platform evolves.
This role provides the opportunity to work on a global Alternatives platform where you will collaborate with experienced professionals and influence risk management practices in a growing business. We are looking for a professional who combines strong analytical capabilities with effective stakeholder management skills and an interest in private credit investment risk or alternatives in general.
Job Responsibilities
- Measure, monitor, and independently assess risks in investment activities; escalate issues to senior management as needed
- Analyze stress, performance, liquidity, and counterparty risk metrics, and perform deep-dive risk analysis on outliers
- Implement and enhance risk frameworks for new products within Private Credit and Alternatives
- Collaborate with investment, in-business, and independent risk teams to maintain a thorough understanding of fund and portfolio risk profiles
- Strengthen risk oversight processes, policies, and procedures for investment, liquidity risk, ensuring ongoing compliance
- Improve transparency and infrastructure for capturing and reporting risk exposures
- Conduct deep dives on emerging risk areas and assess their potential impact on the business
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Bachelor’s degree required
- Relevant experience in financial services, with a focus on trading, portfolio management, risk management, or investment risk across asset classes
- Previous direct, hands-on experience with large initiatives across multiple stakeholders
- Capable of prioritizing deliverables to meet goals and to manage across a group of constituents
- Demonstrated analytical and problem-solving skills; inquisitive and comfortable challenging current practices
- Solid understanding of market risk methodologies, including VaR, stress testing, and sensitivities
- Familiarity with modeling and strong quantitative skills
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills for effective business interaction and senior management presentations
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Master’s degree or additional certifications such as CFA or CAIA
- Buy-side and alternatives experience
- Working knowledge of portfolio valuations and risk systems a plus
- Prior experience with coding and data visualization tools such as Python, Alteryx, SQL & Tableau a plus
- Experience in alternatives risk, particularly within Private Credit and Private Equity
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.
J.P. Morgan Asset & Wealth Management delivers industry-leading investment management and private banking solutions. Asset Management provides individuals, advisors and institutions with strategies and expertise that span the full spectrum of asset classes through our global network of investment professionals. Wealth Management helps individuals, families and foundations take a more intentional approach to their wealth or finances to better define, focus and realize their goals.
Lead next generation risk oversight for a growing private credit business, shaping strategy and monitoring exposure in a dynamic market.
