Position Summary:

JP Morgan’s US Treasury trading desk is part of one of the top Interest Rates Trading businesses on Wall Street, and we are currently looking for a qualified candidate to work on the trading desk, and help facilitate trading. At least 1 year of trading experience is a pre-requisite. 

Position Description:

As an Associate for US Treasury desk, you will be expected to leverage your trading experience to help trade a specific maturity sector on the Treasury curve. Expectations will cover revenue, client engagement, content, partnership with sales and clients, and general teamwork behaviors for covering other traders and communicating important information. Others responsibilities will including helping to price client trades, hedge risks, and work on desk projects and manage many operational duties for the desk. Head trader for USTs will set expectations on pricing, risk, hedging, and the direction of the book, and the junior trader will be responsible for managing these trading responsibilities, in addition to handling desk projects and all the daily operational requirements for this group. The operational responsibilities for the desk include but are not limited to booking and confirming trades, talking to sales and sales assistants, reporting desk P&L, working on spreadsheets, coding projects, and other related work for desk intelligence. This is a unique opportunity to enter a strong franchise in a trading role, where more responsibility can be earned by proving core trading competencies, strong communication, ability to take direction easily as well as critical feedback, and ability to produce revenue and service the client base. 

Job Responsibilities:

Pricing & hedging client trades (requires intimate familiarity with duration, curve, futures, and on-off the run risk) Generating Revenue commensurate with the opportunity of the sector Produce color and content on the respective sector to share with clients and sales Working with the desk to develop analytics for relative value trading in both cash and derivatives Managing operational duties for reporting P&L, risk, and anything ad hoc asked by the desk including projects or specific data gathering.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

Minimum of 1 yr of trading experience Undergraduate degree Strong interpersonal and communication skills Interest in markets and macro products Ability to take direction and constructive feedback, while meeting time sensitive deadlines on a daily basis

Preferred qualifications, capabilities and skills:

Undergraduate technical/STEM degree Strong understanding of cash products and UST futures Familiarity with Excel