Trade Lifecycle Associate
Step into the role of Trade Lifecycle Associate at JPMorganChase, where you'll be a vital part of managing the pre- and post-trading life cycle for FX, MM and Fixed Income products. Your expertise in cash movements and funding coordination and settlement readiness will be essential in ensuring seamless trade processing risk-aware execution support, and operational excellence.
As a Trade Lifecycle Associate within JPMorganChase, you will play a pivotal role in managing pre-trade, trade-date, and post-trade operational activities across FX, Derivatives, MM and Fixed Income. You will partner closely with Front Office, Middle Office, Treasury/Funding Operations, and Technology to ensure accurate and timely processing through our platforms and downstream infrastructures. Your proficiency in listening and questioning, internal stakeholder management, presentation skills, process improvement, and automation will be key to your success in this role. You will also have the opportunity to develop your data and tech literacy skills while working with us.
Job responsibilities
- Manage the pre- and post-trade lifecycle for FX, Derivatives, MM, and Fixed Income transactions, including validation of key economics and operational eligibility.
- Execute and oversee cash movements and funding coordination, ensuring trades are supported by appropriate settlement funding and aligned to value dates and cutoffs.
- Coordinate with internal stakeholders to resolve breaks and exceptions related to confirmations, allocations, settlement instructions (SSIs), and cash/position reconciliations.
- Perform analysis and exercise judgement within defined parameters to identify root causes, escalate when required, and drive timely resolution of issues impacting settlement or client outcomes.
- Support continuous improvement by proposing and implementing enhancements to working methods across controls, exception management, and operational workflows.
- Leverage automation and tooling to improve efficiency (e.g., workflow optimization, data quality checks, operational dashboards), while developing data and technology literacy.
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- 5+ years of experience or equivalent expertise in managing cash movements and preparing funding for managed accounts.
- Broad knowledge of trade lifecycle principles with product awareness across FX, Derivatives, Money Markets, and Fixed Income.
- Strong stakeholder management, communication, and presentation skills; effective listening and questioning to clarify requirements and resolve issues.
- Process improvement mindset with interest in automation and data-driven operations.
- Fluent/Native Turkish speaker (verbal and written).
- Good knowledge of English (verbal and written) sufficient for daily business communication, documentation, and stakeholder management.
- CMB (Capital Markets Board of Türkiye) licenses (held or eligible to obtain), as applicable to the role's scope.
- Understanding of SWIFT, Cross Border Payments, Foreign Exchange, Trade life cycle, Reconciliation rules and Global Custody.
- Self-starter, ability to learn quickly, Strong leadership skills with focus to mitigate risks and taking proactive approach to ensure "Best in Class" results.
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 the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.
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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.
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