Hedge Fund Services Onboarding Associate

Hedge Fund Services Onboarding Associate role at JPMorganChase. JPMorgan Alternative Fund Services delivers an extensive solution for hedge fund, private equity, and fund of hedge fund clients seeking independent administration and custody services or to outsource their day-to-day operations. As an Associate in the global onboarding team, you will play a crucial role in launching or migrating a client's business onto the JPM HFS business platform. Your responsibilities will include reviewing fund documentation, creating fund structure diagrams, initializing application setups, and completing gap analysis. You will collaborate closely with the wider AIS line of business (Fund Accounting, Investor Relations, Compliance, Internal Audit, Operations, Private Equity and Real Estate) ensuring a smooth transition of the fund to a live environment. This role provides an excellent opportunity to enhance your skills in client/fund setup on multiple HFS systems and contribute significantly to our team's success.

Responsibilities

• Provide a premier client service by building strong relationships with clients and internal stakeholders
• Become proficient in client / fund static data setup on HFS systems such as Arcesium, FuMA, FAIRx and IRIS
• Work closely with accounting to agree the ideal fund structures, workflow and allocations setup
• Participate in pre-launch calls highlighting missing or conflicting data
• Ensure all scheduled work is completed by agreed deadlines, checklists are signed and trackers updated
• Proactively review the team's procedures and suggest improvements/automation
• Complete gap analysis on external administrator reports to understand the data points, logging all differences to JPM standards and workflows
• Complete data mapping of external reports to the data migration templates and reconciliations tools
• Work closely with Data Analytics to initialize asset universe and value positions ensuring proper representation
• Perform detailed NAV reconciliation to external administrator with full backup for audit history

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities And Skills

• A Bachelor's Degree in finance or related field
• Significant experience in the Financial Services industry with prior experience in alternative funds
• Strong working knowledge of fund administration systems, reference data setup and NAV delivery process
• Strong knowledge of hedge fund structures and products including fund of hedge funds
• Working knowledge of MS Excel & Alteryx
• Ability to effectively communicate with internal and external clients
• Professional and proactive approach to work
• Strong organizational skills, concern for quality, accuracy and working to deadlines
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills

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.