Trade & Working Capital - Export and Agency Finance- Senior Associate

Join our dynamic team to drive the deal life cycle from origination to portfolio management, support global transaction professionals, and enhance your expertise in structuring, analytics, and strategic networking within JPMorgan's diverse financial landscape.

As a Associate in the Export & Agency Finance (“EAF”) team in the Americas (“EAF Americas”) within Trade and Working Capital, you will be responsible for assisting in the origination and execution of EAF Americas transactions as well as assisting in the management of the Americas-based Agency programs and associated relationships. You will also assist in managing close relationships with internal & market partners in support of the global J.P. Morgan EAF franchise. EAF Americas has geographic responsibility for the origination and execution of Agency supported financing with Americas-based clients and with Americas-based Agencies supporting transactions globally.

J.P. Morgan EAF is a group of professionals within Trade & Working Capital focused on structuring and arranging structured debt solutions aimed at meeting our clients' unique financing needs across a highly collaborative global platform. We partner with export credit agencies ("ECAs"), multilateral agencies ("MLAs") and development finance institutions ("DFIs") (each an "Agency" and together "Agencies") to support our clients with financing solutions that feature credit enhancements or direct lending from relevant Agencies. ECAs are established by governments to promote national exports. DFIs and MLAs are public financing institutions with economic development missions.

Job responsibilities

• Contributes to deal life cycle: from origination to execution and subsequent transition to portfolio management
• Supports senior transaction professionals globally in advancing the transaction deal life cycle
• Assists in work streams including: marketing materials, pricing models, internal deal memos and execution documentation
• Develops ownership in ability to apply deal structuring considerations, that include “boxes and arrows” and cash-flow based financial modeling
• Owns internal systems and processes, produce pipeline reporting and provide analytics for senior management
• Ensures alignment with JPMorgan internal operating procedures and policies, contribute to content development for internal & external thought leadership
• Builds & leverages internal network, principally with colleagues in Global Trade & Working Capital, Global Corporate Bank, as well as with Infrastructure Advisory Finance, Markets and Debt Capital Markets product partners and other functions within Payments, as appropriate
   

Required qualifications, capabilities and skills

• 3+ years of relevant experience
• Applicable college degree  
• Experience in cross-border debt financing
• Ability to establish skills foundation for originating, structuring, executing and syndicating financings
• Refine important business communication and analytical skills
• Thorough understanding of institutional risk management policies and tools
• Ability to carry out analysis for comparing alternative financing structures
• Advanced relationship management proficiencies with internal & external clients and leadership skills by acting as a go-to person for certain aspects of deal management
• Experience with environmental, social and governance considerations surrounding international finance
• Advanced skill in using Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Outlook and Excel
   

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Familiarity with corporate financing through professional experience and strong interest in cross-border financing
• Familiarity with Latin America and the Caribbean
• Effective communication, interpersonal skills and project management capability
• Spanish and/or Portuguese language skills preferred