Job Description

Job Category: Associates
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Join our multidisciplinary product team in London, structuring bespoke financing transactions for sovereign, corporate and institutional clients across a wide range of markets-based products.
Are you a strategic thinker passionate about structuring and delivering custom-made solutions to clients? Join our team at J.P. Morgan, where you'll partner with sales and trading desks to offer tailored secured financing solutions. We offer a collaborative environment with opportunities for growth and development, focusing on delivering innovative financing solutions across various desks of JPM.
As an EM Financing Structurer, you will work closely with Sales, Trading, Legal, and other control functions to structure and execute bespoke secured financing transactions in a variety of formats such as repos, TRS, margin loans, securitizations and structured notes. You'll act as a central axis point for Markets financing transactions, collaborating with various stakeholders to promote financing products in fixed income, with a particular focus on CEEMEA.
Job Responsibilities

• Act as an structurer in the CEEMEA Structuring team, based in London.
• Work closely with Sales and Origination teams to design and execute financing transactions, typically serving as alternatives to capital markets issuances and traditional banking products.
• Cover a variety of clients, including Banks, Central Banks, Sovereigns, Credit Funds, Corporates, and Insurance Companies, staying on top of market developments and implications on our clients' financing and liquidity needs.
• Work closely with Trading teams in Currencies and Emerging Markets, Fixed Income Financing, EM Credit, and Rates, with a focus on structuring efficient financing solutions that meet JPM internal legal, capital and risk/return requirements.
• Take ownership of relevant workstreams in financing transactions such as assisting with initial client dialogue, determining financing format and collateral valuation methodology, and managing the internal approval process.
• Cooperate with control functions such as Risk, Legal, Compliance, Accounting, Regulatory Capital, and Tax.
• Prepare transaction term sheets, pricing/financing models, and client presentations.
• Negotiate and draft legal documentation and risk mitigants.

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills

• Good understanding of financing products and formats (GMRA/ISDA/Loan).
• Experience working in a deal team to tailor and deliver bespoke financings (or other markets-based solutions).
• Demonstrable proficiency with market and product terminology.
• Strong analytical and communication skills.
• Ability to develop a thorough understanding of our client base and business acumen.
• Proficiency in Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills

• Familiarity with structured finance products (DPRs, ABS/MBS, covered bonds).
• Experience in emerging markets, understanding local market dynamics and/or local legal/regulatory aspects.
• Basic understanding of derivatives products (cross-currency swaps, IRS, CDS, options).

This role encompasses the performance of UK regulated activity. The successful candidate will be subject to meeting UK regulatory requirements in the assessment of fitness, propriety, knowledge, and competence, and approval by the UK Financial Conduct Authority and/or the Prudential Regulation Authority.
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 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.