Structured Investments Operations – Trading Services Analyst

Overview

Join our Structured Investment Operations team — support trade execution, improve processes, and partner with Sales for clients now! As a Trading Services Analyst within the Structured Investments Operations Team, you will support end-to-end execution across origination support, client onboarding, subscriptions, trade booking, confirmations, settlements, lifecycle management, and fee governance. You’ll contribute to standardization and reporting, help maintain tracking tools, and work with internal partners (Legal, Credit, Confirmations, Trading Assistants, Middle Office, Collateral, Issuance) to resolve queries and breaks.

Job Responsibilities

• Support daily trading operations end-to-end, including timely trade capture, reconciliations, and break investigation; escalate issues with clear documentation.
• Assist with preparation of recurring management reporting and team dashboards; contribute ideas for process improvement and standardization.
• Prepare client activity summaries and simple market/desk materials for Sales in a clear, structured format.
• Coordinate with the Onboarding/Transition teams to support “good to trade” counterparty setup across relevant systems.
• Monitor daily subscription bookings to help ensure terms align with approvals and flag exceptions for review.
• Support delivery instruction preparation and coordinate settlements with Operations partners; help drive timely booking and reconciliation.
• Assist with economic and non-economic amendments by coordinating inputs and ensuring appropriate sign-offs are captured.
• Maintain pricing/tracking spreadsheets and help respond to indicative pricing requests and routine client queries (with oversight as needed).
• Support lifecycle event checks (expiries/resets, coupons, fees, cashflows) and assist with tracking/instructing payments and fee events.
• Help investigate operational breaks and partner with Collateral/Operations teams on resolution and escalation paths.
• Draft and maintain SOPs and desk procedures; contribute to control documentation and audit-ready evidence.

Required qualifications, capabilities and skills

• Experience in operations, trading services, middle office, settlements, confirmations, or a related financial services role (or equivalent internship/placement experience).
• Strong attention to detail, organization, and follow-through; able to manage multiple priorities with guidance.
• Solid analytical/problem-solving skills; comfortable investigating breaks and documenting outcomes.
• Strong communication skills and a collaborative working style.
• Proficiency in Excel (formulas, pivots, basic data cleaning) and Microsoft Office.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Exposure to Structured Investments / Structured Finance (e.g., repacks, fund subscriptions, distribution fee concepts).
• Familiarity with onboarding workflows, affirmations/confirmations, and settlement processes.
• Basic automation/reporting skills (e.g., VBA, Python, SQL) are a plus, not a requirement.
• Experience updating SOPs or supporting process improvement in a growing team.

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.

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.

Join our Structured Investment Operations team — support trade execution, improve processes and partner with Sales for clients now!