Posting description
J.P. Morgan’s ABS Originations team sits at the intersection of Corporate Finance and Markets — one of the most intellectually demanding and commercially dynamic seats in structured finance. We analyze, structure, and execute innovative asset-backed financings for clients across the Americas, combining rigorous analytical work with meaningful exposure to live transactions.
We are hiring an Associate who is eager to take on responsibility, learn quickly, and contribute across transactions from early-stage analysis through execution and ongoing portfolio management. You will work on transactions end-to-end alongside senior team members and partners across functions, building expertise across asset classes, structures, and jurisdictions. As our activity in Latin America continues to grow, the role will also provide exposure to cross-border and private ABS financings.
This role is well suited to someone who is analytically strong, collaborative, commercially minded, and motivated to build a long-term career in structured finance.
Job responsibilities
- Build portfolio cash flow models and ABS structure models across asset classes and jurisdictions.
- Analyze new opportunities by reviewing data tapes and loan performance histories, identifying key trends, and assessing implications for execution, risk, and valuation.
- Apply rating agency methodologies and Index to evaluate structures and support pricing.
- Support origination, structuring, pricing, and execution of ABS transactions, including loan portfolio purchases, forward-flow arrangements, private warehouses, and private real-estate financing strategies.
- Contribute to private ABS financings and related principal finance transactions for clients across Latin America and Canada.
- Participate in transactions from pitch and diligence through execution and ongoing portfolio management.
- Prepare presentations, term sheets, and other materials to support client dialogue and live transactions.
- Assist in portfolio surveillance and risk/position management, including marking, hedging, and P&L tracking.
- Coordinate with internal partners across credit, legal, structuring, and coverage, as well as external counterparties, to support efficient execution.
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- 2–4 years of securitization-related or structured finance experience.
- Strong quantitative and analytical skills, including ability to analyze/interpret data, detect trends, and assess impacts to execution and valuations.
- Ability to model ABS structures and understand value creation through liability structures.
- Proficiency with structured finance rating agency methodologies; Intex experience expected.
- Ability to tailor workable solutions across accounting, corporate finance, bank capital, tax, legal, and other market considerations.
- High motivation and commercial mindset; ability to manage priorities with urgency, accuracy, and attention to detail.
- Positive attitude, determination to deliver end-to-end, and genuine intellectual curiosity about products and markets.
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Expertise in Python or another programming language.
- Excellent writing, research, and verbal presentation skills; ability to synthesize and communicate complex analyses clearly.
- Spanish language skills are helpful given the team’s growing LATAM activity, but not required.
- Strong teamwork, organization, and proactive prioritization skills when working across diverse stakeholders.
