This front-office role involves fulfilling client requests, oversight of day-to-day operations and end of month rebalances, creating and discussing models, project management of index construction, and staying on top of market and competitor trends. 

As an associate in J.P. Morgan’s Global Index Research Group, you will help maintain and grow our global index business from end-to-end. To meet client demands and ensure the indices remain replicable, you will speak with our partners in both sales and trading. You will also become the go-to person for product and market knowledge, collaborating with our colleagues in Technology for index construction, guiding our Index Calculation team on matters of index maintenance and quality controls, and liaising with licensing. Index Research is dynamic, fast-paced and multi-faceted. We look for team-oriented candidates who possess strong quantitative and business writing/communication skills, are proactive, strive to improve and enhance products and processes, and have familiarity with a coding language. The candidate will need to demonstrate a blend of technical and analytical skills with an equally placed importance place on communication and presentation. The candidate will be working on a daily basis with other team members in other regions, as well as clients located globally. 

Job Responsibilities:

• You would work with both internal and external clients to educate them on structural and tactical changes in the index products and the associated implications for the relevant markets resulting from these changes.
• The team manages thousands of indices that cover global markets primarily in the fixed income space. Although the day-to-day operations are managed by a separate operations group (Calculation agent), this role requires oversight and involvement in operational aspect in order to maintain product integrity. 
• This role requires deep understanding of CLOs and index products (rules, bonds, market structure, macroeconomics etc.) and oversight of the product to maintain product dependability and applicability. 
• Building strong relationships with clients and our partners in Research, QR, Data Science, and Technology
• This role would also involve front office responsibilities interfacing with clients as well as data analysis and problem solving.
• Managing multiple high profile deliveries through effective project management, supporting the plan and execution, collaborating with internal/external subject matter experts and product owners,

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

• Minimum education and requirements: Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Finance, Mathematics, Economics, or related field (STEM)
• 3 years work experience in fixed income index building and product development
• Must have experience working in CLO and working with large data sets
• Superb organizational skills, decisive priority management, strong teamwork ethic, ability to think locally & execute globally with high social awareness
• Clear, logical thinker with strong quantitative problem solving abilities
• Understanding of fixed income concepts, bond math, financial products, analytics, and an awareness of market events
• Good communication skills (both written and verbal)

Preferred qualification, capabilities, and skills: 

• Experience with portfolio construction or fixed income strategy 
• Experience interfacing with clients 
• Programming skills in R or Python (or similar)
• Knowledge and experience in statistical modeling, time series, stochastic calculus, probability theory and numerical methods
• Data Science, Data management and Data visualization tools and techniques