Apac Equities Business Manager

**JOB DESCRIPTION**
We are seeking an Associate to be part of the Finance & Business Management team of the Commercial and Investment Bank that supports Global Equities, which works with the world’s largest and most prominent corporate clients, institutional investors and hedge funds. Global Equities draw upon a comprehensive suite of global capabilities, renowned intellectual capital and a fortress balance sheet, empowering them with efficient equities trading that keeps pace with evolving needs.

As an APAC Equities Business Manager - Associate within Asia Pacific Equities business, you will be responsible for acting as a trusted advisor to the business head and optimize business performance by helping to lead key initiatives. We act as counterweight to Business/Group Heads, and are responsible for identifying, escalating, and mitigating business risks. We provide you with an opportunity to focus on supporting the APAC Prime Financial Services (PFS) Business, provide location support to the Equities Trading business in Singapore, and work on and lead Global initiatives.

**Job responsibilities**
- Support the Business Heads to establish business strategy and business priorities
- Lead delivery of business initiatives, working closely with regional and cross-business partners, country heads, product partners and support teams
- Assist the business in communicating the business strategy, performance and priorities e.g., preparing materials for regulators, business updates, one off reviews and offsites
- Identify, assess and mitigate business risks that could impair the ability to do business, working closely with regional and functional partners
- Project manage existing and new business and change management initiatives and complete in a timely manner
- Identify, assess and mitigate business risks that could impair the ability to do business
- Lead key initiatives to optimize bottom line business performance including efficiency, profitability, expense and overhead management, balance sheet/risk-weighted asset and treasury funding, capital utilization
- Manage inputs into performance reviews and business planning as well as producing strategic and financial presentations for management review and analysis
- Ensure oversight and active management of direct and indirect expense allocations with the current business environment
- Work with the functional stakeholders including but not limited to Product Controllers, Planning and Analysis Team, and Technology Team to support accurate business analytics, financials and forecasts whilst partnering with other business managers in Asia or globally on shared deliverables

**Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills**
- Minimum of a Bachelor’s Degree in Finance, Accounting, Business or a related discipline
- Minimum of 2 years’ experience in the financial services industry
- Good judgment, maturity and poise to enable interaction/influencing of senior management
- Able to synthesize large volumes of data into key messages for senior management, assimilate broad-ranging information quickly and able to distil it into the key points
- Proficiency in Excel and experience in generating high quality PowerPoint documents
- Understand and foster the strategic business vision, demonstrates effective judgment in risk assessment, and prioritize tasks in line with business objectives
- Demonstrate resilience and a strong work ethic, can efficiently manage tasks under tight deadlines, thrive in dynamic environments, and effectively leverage organizational resources for timely results
- Excellent attention to detail, articulate in written and verbal communication and can present and support their own conclusions to senior audiences

**Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills**
- Experience in Business Management or Chief Operating Officer (COO) related function
- Background in Equities/Prime Financial Services and overall local market knowledge
- Working knowledge of Equities, Prime Financial Services and its product offerings to institutional clients, as well as the associated market and regulatory landscape
- Advanced analytical and technical skills such as scripting language e.g., Python, automation tools e.g., Alteryx, and/or visualization tools e.g., Tableau and QlikView

**ABOUT US**

J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world’s most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals and institutional investors. Our first-class business in a first-class way approach to serving clients drives everything we do. We strive to build trusted, long-term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives.

We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on