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Asset Management - Product & Platform Alternative Investment Investor Support - Vice President

Aumni

Aumni

Product, Customer Service
New York, NY, USA
Posted on Thursday, July 18, 2024

Job Description

J.P. Morgan Asset Management is the world’s third-largest alternatives manager, with a 40-year history of delivering innovative alternative solutions across market cycles. Our alternative investment engines are managed by highly specialized independent teams, backed by the global reach, vast resources and robust governance of J.P. Morgan Asset Management. Our alternative strategies are designed to achieve specific client outcomes and built to deliver uncorrelated returns to traditional asset classes. Customized alternative portfolios can be tailored to individual client needs. We offer strategies across the alternative investment spectrum, including real estate, private equity and credit, infrastructure, transportation, liquid alternatives and hedge funds.

As a Product & Platform Vice President within J.P. Morgan Alternative Asset Management Hedge Fund & Alternative Credit Solutions, you will spearhead technological innovation and data management. Your role will involve enhancing efficiencies across various teams, promoting design principles, and leading technology initiatives. You will develop innovative tools to boost efficiency, particularly within Investment Research, Risk, and Client teams. Collaborating with AM Technology teams, you will facilitate the transition of our tools to enterprise architecture. You will encourage the adoption of design principles among Python developers to foster reuse and mitigate transition costs. Your responsibilities will also include participating in technology initiatives, reengineering legacy processes, implementing new technology, and identifying automation opportunities. Working closely with senior members, you will identify projects to improve our team's quantitative capabilities. You will contribute to investment strategy and risk discussions, and oversee the Data Management team's tasks. Lastly, you will handle ad-hoc reporting/data requests and assume ownership of ongoing reporting and analytical needs.

Job Responsibilities:
- Provide Investor Support and be at the forefront of promoting technological innovation and data management within our organization. Your focus will be on enhancing efficiencies across various teams, fostering the adoption of design principles, and leading technology initiatives.
- Develop innovative tools aimed at enhancing efficiencies across various teams, with a particular emphasis on Investment Research, Risk, and Client teams.
- Engage in collaborative efforts with AM Technology teams to facilitate the transition of JPMAAM tools to enterprise architecture as required.
- Promote the adoption of design principles among JPMAAM Python developers that foster reuse and mitigate the cost of transition.
- Actively participate in technology initiatives, including the reengineering of legacy processes, the implementation of new technology, and the proactive identification of opportunities for automation and efficiency enhancements.
- Identify projects/processes that that will improve the team’s quantitative capabilities, in close partnership with select Senior members of JPMAAM,
- Contribute to investment strategy and risk discussions, staying abreast of investment and strategy modeling needs that may necessitate system support.
- Oversee the tasks of the Data Management team, assuming responsibility for the development of tools that ensure data completeness.
- Monitor and assist with ad-hoc reporting/data requests made by clients, analysts, portfolio managers, and the risk team.
- Assume ownership of select ongoing reporting and analytical needs, with a primary objective of eliminating duplication, enhancing efficiency, and achieving full automation.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or Financial Engineering.
  • 4+ years of financial services experience ideally working with Hedge Funds or Private Credit.
  • Advanced level knowledge of software engineering concepts and hands-on working experience with scripting languages & data analysis tools including Python and Tableau are key.
  • Excellent communication & negotiation skills, both written and oral, including the ability to interact with all levels of an organization.
  • Ability to work independently as well within a team dynamic.
  • Ability to think critically, analyze and solve business problems.
  • Ability to assess current processes & the overall control environment, identify areas of improvement, and use knowledge of technology to implement practical solutions

Preferred qualifications, capabilities and skills

  • General familiarity with Hedge Fund strategies, Risk Management and Portfolio Construction concepts are a plus.