Description

Join our High Touch Sales Trading team and accelerate your career in a fast-paced, client-focused environment. As a Sales Assistant, you will gain hands-on experience in trade execution, market analysis, and client engagement. This role offers opportunities for professional growth, collaboration with experienced sales traders, and exposure to innovative trading strategies. Be part of a team that values initiative, analytical thinking, and continuous improvement.

As a Sales Assistant within the High Touch Sales Trading team, you support the execution of client orders and contribute to the success of our trading desk. You engage with both domestic and international clients, collaborate with internal stakeholders, and help drive business outcomes through market analysis and operational excellence. You play a vital role in ensuring smooth pre-trade and post-trade operations, supporting product development initiatives, and maintaining high standards of risk management and compliance. Your work directly impacts our client franchise and the firm's reputation for excellence.

Job responsibilities:

• Support client order execution through direct market access and algorithmic trading platforms
• Assist with pre-trade analysis, index constituent research, and trade processing
• Prepare and send trade recaps, termsheets, and market update summaries to clients
• Respond to client queries and macro-economic market research requests
• Collaborate with internal teams to resolve client and operational issues
• Prepare market content using news, views and JPM research
• Create analytics to assess client activity and trading desk performance
• Facilitate onboarding of clients for market products
• Support product development and IT initiatives to improve trading desk processes
• Ensure compliance with risk management, legal, and regulatory requirements
• Take initiative to improve business practices and client solutions

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

• Bachelor's degree
• Interest in financial markets and trading
• Experience in sales trading, trading, or related roles in an investment banking environment
• Strong analytical and quantitative skills
• Proficiency in market and product terminology, transaction cycles, and trading platforms

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.

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.