Business Lending Risk Analytics - Senior Associate

Bring your expertise to JPMorgan Chase. As part of Risk Management and Compliance, you are at the center of keeping JPMorgan Chase strong and resilient. You help the firm grow its business in a responsible way by anticipating new and emerging risks, and using your expert judgement to solve real-world challenges that impact our company, customers and communities. Our culture in Risk Management and Compliance is all about thinking outside the box, challenging the status quo, and striving to be best-in-class.

As a Strategic Analytics Associate in Business Banking Risk, you will generate data‑driven insights and recommendations that inform strategy development, implementation, and performance monitoring across the Business Banking portfolio. You’ll transform complex datasets into actionable management information, design and test strategies that balance growth and credit risk, and maintain robust controls and documentation to ensure an audit‑ready environment. This opportunity offers high visibility, cross‑functional collaboration, and the chance to influence outcomes across the credit lifecycle—from acquisition and underwriting through portfolio management, collections, and recoveries.

Responsibilities:

• Conduct thoughtful analysis of borrowers, their demographics, and risk/profit performance with the firm’s products
• Generate strategic recommendations for strategy development based on quantitative analytics and business intuition. Strategies are optimized to maximize profitability while minimizing risk
• Attain a detailed understanding of key performance metrics and profitability drivers, enabling the delivery of insights encompassing the full account lifecycle

• Acquire an understanding of the operational processes (i.e. manual underwriting, portfolio management, collections, etc.) which will aid in understanding portfolio and collection performance drivers

• Conduct ad hoc analytics and contribute to various projects representing Risk Management
• Develop and maintain periodic reporting and analytics on key portfolio performance metrics and collection performance metrics to provide management with emerging trends 
• Conduct pre-implementation and post-implementation testing & analysis to ensure strategic changes produce expected impacts
• Contribute to the team’s ‘audit-ready’ state by keeping organized documentation, following established control processes, and developing draft responses to internal audit and regulatory questions.
   

Required Qualifications, Capabilities and Skills:

• Bachelor's degree with minimum 5 years of professional experience related to risk management or other quantitative field of work
• Background in statistics, econometric, or other quantitative field
• Advanced understanding of SAS, SAS Enterprise Miner, or other decision tree software
• Ability to query large amounts of data and transform the raw data into actionable management information and insights
• Familiarity with risk analytic techniques and strong problem solving skills
• Strong written and verbal communication skills

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities and Skills:

• Master's degree with minimum 3 years of professional experience related to risk management or other quantitative field of work
• Intellectually curious and driven to identify meaningful insights using a data guided approach
• Strong knowledge of US lending and debt collection regulations and practices
• Experience delivering recommendations to management