Asset Management - EMD Support Portfolio Manager - Associate

Join the EMD investment team as a technically strong Associate focused on building scalable analytics, portfolio construction tools and agents, and automated reporting that improve decision-making and execution efficiency across the franchise.

Core Responsibilities

You will design and deploy automated workflows for recurring materials, identifying process bottlenecks and implementing durable fixes using modern tooling, including LLM-based assistants in line with firmwide data governance standards.

You will develop and enhance portfolio construction and optimization capabilities, including risk budgeting, factor exposure analysis, and scenario modelling. This includes building and maintaining models, dashboards, and datasets for signals, valuation, and risk monitoring, with scope to support systematic and rules-based strategy development.

You will provide day-to-day investment support to portfolio managers and research analysts, including ad hoc analysis, trade idea evaluation, implementation support, and contributions to performance attribution and risk analytics.

Candidates should bring 2-4 years of relevant experience in asset management, quantitative finance, or a closely related field, with strong programming capability in Python (required). Comfort using and integrating AI/LLM-assisted tools is needed, alongside solid communication skills and high operational attention to detail. Fixed income knowledge is required, with emerging markets experience preferred, A degree in Economics, Finance, Applied Mathematics, Computer Science, or a related quantitative discipline is preferred, with an advanced degree and/or progress toward the CFA viewed positively. Additional advantages include familiarity with portfolio construction and attribution frameworks, data visualization tools (for example Tableau or Power BI), exposure to systematic strategy or indexing/ETF construction, and understanding of order management and trade execution workflows (per provided role description).

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., J.P. Morgan Asset & Wealth Management delivers industry-leading investment management and private banking solutions. Asset Management provides individuals, advisors and institutions with strategies and expertise that span the full spectrum of asset classes through our global network of investment professionals. Wealth Management helps individuals, families and foundations take a more intentional approach to their wealth or finances to better define, focus and realize their goals.