Commercial & Investment Bank - Credit Risk - Associate

Are you interested in contributing to keeping JPMorganChase strong and resilient? Our Commercial & Investment Bank (CIB) Credit Risk Korea team works closely with business partners from Global Corporate Banking, Syndicated & Leveraged Finance, Strategic Derivatives, Illiquid Credit Finance, Trading, other Credit teams, and the Korea Chief Risk Officer. We focus on due diligence, structuring, negotiation, documentation and determination of risk rating for such transactions along with portfolio management responsibilities post-closing including ongoing credit monitoring and review work.

As an Associate in our CIB Credit Risk team, you will serve as the Credit Risk Officer for CIB clients in Korea. You will cover both Large-Cap and Mid-Cap clients and transactions with them as the Credit Risk Officer, working with the Head of CIB Credit Risk team in Korea. We may also consider candidates with less experience for the Analyst role.

Job responsibilities

• Manage exposures proactively on a portfolio of CIB clients including both Large-Cap and Mid-Cap clients
• Participate in client due diligence actively and independently challenge credit on-boarding initiated by frontline Bankers
• Work closely in great partnership with coverage banking officers, syndication, and other partners to risk grade borrowers, analyze and approve credit requests, structure credit facilities, and negotiate credit agreements and other loan documentation
• Be responsible for on-going monitoring and risk management of an assigned portfolio of credit clients
• Interact with key stakeholders actively including client coverage and product bankers

Required qualifications, capabilities and skills

• Bachelor's degree
• Minimum of 3 years of work experience in credit risk management for CIB Banking clients
• In-depth experience working with Corporate clients in Korea
• Strong knowledge in underwriting practices, industry standards and regulatory requirements relevant to commercial banking and adequate experience of conducting client due diligence independently
• Good product knowledge of a wide range of lending, derivative and treasury services products and documentation associated with these products
• Self-starter, able to work independently, a team player with demonstrable communication, structuring and corporate finance skills
• Fluent in Korean and English with strong written and verbal communication skills

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.

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ABOUT THE TEAM

J.P. Morgan's Commercial & Investment Bank is a global leader across banking, markets, securities services and payments. Corporations, governments and institutions throughout the world entrust us with their business in more than 100 countries. The Commercial & Investment Bank provides strategic advice, raises capital, manages risk and extends liquidity in markets around the world.