Business Management optimizes business performances by helping to drive key initiatives. We act as trusted advisors and counterweight to Business/Group Heads, and are responsible for identifying, escalating, and mitigating business risks. The role of a business manager is dynamic and can vary from business to business, in line with the priorities of the different lines of business.

This role supports to Public Finance business within the Corporate & Investment Bank (CIB). The JPM Public Finance business is structured as a full service investment bank within the CIB, comprised of the following teams:

• Investment Banking Coverage

• Syndicate

• Long & Short Term Trading

• Credit Origination

• Credit Analysis & Investor Marketing

• Debt Capital Markets

Public Finance banking provides sector and regional banking coverage in New York and 15 regional offices. The Syndicate desk partners with banking and trading to bring new issues to market. The trading desks work closely with sales to support customer activity, covering over 500 major institutional accounts. Credit Origination manages a $20 bn diversified credit portfolio for our public sector clients. Credit Analysis & Investor Marketing provide transactional support for new issuance, secondary trading and institutional customers while Debt Capital Markets provides centralized support for market color, technical analysis and deal support for banking.

Job Responsibilities

• Implement new business strategy, strategic initiatives or platforms, including aligning department and support groups (Finance, Tech, Ops, Legal, Compliance)
• Optimize 'bottom line' business performance by driving key initiatives (fees, cost base, RWA and capital utilization)
• Identify, escalate and mitigate business risks that could impair our ability to do business: e.g. legal, tax, regulatory, capacity issues, extraordinary transaction costs
• Analyze financial performance, including expenses; identify productivity initiatives and drive implementation
• Partner with the business, Operations and Technology in the definition of future workflows and implementation of related technology and infrastructure projects to prepare the business to meet the requirements of an ever evolving market structure
• Partner with the relevant external service/ infrastructure providers
• Business representation in respective internal/external working groups

Required Qualifications, Skills and Capabilities

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Economics, or other related area
• Previous product knowledge and/or prior Business Management or COO experience
• Energetic and dynamic in style
• Highly motivated self-starter with excellent time management/prioritization skills
• Present well to senior and global business heads
• Able to forge strong internal relationships across a broad range of functions