Edg Dag Sales Gift City Associate

**JOB DESCRIPTION**
**Job summary**:
J.P. Morgan’s Markets Group was set up in 2013 as an extension of the Firm’s global markets teams around the world. The group provides in-depth knowledge that is behind our Investment Banking, Structuring, Sales & Trading, and Research businesses around the globe. Markets Group is a fast growing team covering multiple asset classes across geographies. The teams under this umbrella work closely with the trading, sales, and structuring teams spread across various regions across the globe. The key responsibilities of the team include pricing, generating product rationale, making marketing material and legal documents, back testing and analysis of new proprietary strategies, and market research. The class of products includes Equity Derivatives / Rates/FX/Alternatives/Commodities.

**Job responsibilities**:

- Work as part of a sales team that focuses primarily on equity derivatives and structured investment products. Devise and provide pricing on derivative structures using internal pricing models and help with post trade process like instrument creation, assist with booking, note issuance process, term sheet preparation. The role being offered is based out of GIFT City, Ahmedabad and will also involve interacting on pricing with onshore clients while supporting the onshore sales team.
- Analyzing the research reports and trade ideas from various sources and generating strategies relevant for our client base.
- Combining the product knowledge with the market research and generating pitch books / factsheets which highlight why a particular product is suited for the current environment.
- Taking responsibility for post trade lifecycle events and assist with any client queries (settlements issues, lifecycle calculations, reconciliations, legal document checks).
- Guide the process improvement and automation agenda for the sales team. Develop process automations for daily tasks. Make use of automated pricing tools from the desks, contribute to the development to meet client’s needs, and help roll-out the capabilities to clients.

**Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills**:

- Basic knowledge of derivatives - indices, futures and options
- Basic knowledge of Equities businesses
- Advanced user of MS Office suite, including Word and PowerPoint
- Close attention to detail and ability to work at very high standards of precision
- Strong quantitative and analytical skills
- Good communication and team skills in a multi-location set up (working closely with sales team based across globe)
- Knowledge of VBA and any object oriented programming language (specifically Python)

**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. In accordance with applicable law, we make reasonable accommodations for applicants’ and employees’ religious practices and beliefs, as well as any mental health or physical disability needs.

**ABOUT THE TEAM**

The Corporate & Investment Bank is a global leader across investment banking, wholesale payments, markets and securities services. The world’s most important corporations, governments and institutions entrust us with their business in more than 100 countries. We provide strategic advice, raise capital, manage risk and extend liquidity in markets around the world.