Special Credits Officer - Executive Director

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Job Description

This is an exciting opportunity for you to join a dynamic, diverse team within Special Credits Group organization. We are actively looking for exceptionally talented individuals who are collaborative, confident and motivated to provide a first-class experience. You will be working alongside a team of talented colleagues from other functions and businesses to provide you with the opportunity to take your career to the next level.

As the Special Credits Officer for the Special Credits Group (SCG), you will play a pivotal role in managing a portfolio of stressed and distressed credits in both EMEA and Asia-Pacific. In SCG, you will focus on risk-managing and maximizing the recovery of JP Morgan's credit exposure through early intervention in and financial restructuring of stressed/distressed borrowers.

Job responsibilities

• Assisting internal transaction teams on new originations and restructurings with material complex legal, financial, reputational, and jurisdictional issues and coordinate with payments and operations partners to mitigate potential payments or settlement risk
• Collaborating with internal deal teams including Corporate/Financial Institutions Group/Emerging Markets Credit Risk Management, Coverage, Global Corporate Bank, Leveraged Finance, Payments, Legal, Compliance and Secondary Loan trading; reviewing complex legal, financial and jurisdictional issues with an objective of improving credit structures on transactions
• Working with lenders, company management, financial advisors, and outside counsel on generating optimal solutions for the repayment of credit exposure and preserving important client relationships
• Assisting in the credit decision-making process in live stressed/distressed situations on an advisory/managed basis
• Preparing quarterly Credit Surveillance, accounting and regulatory reporting on portfolio names
• Developing exposure management and evaluating loan sale opportunities, preparing valuations on securities/ other instruments received from previous restructurings and formulating trading and disposal strategies
• Other responsibilities will include providing leadership on the wholesale regulatory, accounting and risk reporting agenda as well as other SCG-specific activities including crisis management and problem credit playbooks

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Significant experience of Credit Risk management and/or Leveraged Finance experience
• Relevant restructuring or leveraged finance structuring experience across multiple jurisdictions, as well as previous exposure to managing large lending syndicates or executing complex leveraged transactions
• Outstanding verbal and written communication skills
• Able to work well under pressure in a demanding environment

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Prior experience serving on creditors' committees
• Strong network across major restructuring financial and legal advisory firms

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

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. We also take great pride in on our commitment to operating with integrity and discipline in all that we do. If you are a team player, are solutions-oriented and have an appetite for learning, you'll be a great fit for our team.