Wholesale Credit Risk Administration - Senior Associate

JPMorgan Chase JPMorgan Chase · Banking · Chicago, IL +1 · Commercial & Investment Bank

This role supports credit risk administration for commercial banking, focusing on process improvements, operational oversight, and strengthening controls. It involves collaborating with various teams to enhance risk management and operational effectiveness, monitoring credit process metrics, and participating in workstreams related to data management and technology enhancements. The role requires a strong understanding of credit risk, analytical skills, and experience in control and process oversight within a banking environment.

What you'd actually do

  1. Support the C&SI and ABL Credit Risk management team in advancing business priorities and objectives under the guidance of senior team members, escalating issues and decision points as needed.
  2. Assist with operational oversight activities for ABL processes and systems within WLS, executing assigned tasks under direction and promptly escalating exceptions or anomalies to senior team members.
  3. Support process improvement and automation initiatives by documenting current‑state steps, identifying pain points, and assisting with solution testing and rollout under guidance, escalating blockers, dependencies, or policy impacts.
  4. Monitor credit process metrics and data quality indicators; assist with data remediation tasks following established procedures and control standards, escalating material data issues, breaks, or trends to senior team members.
  5. Participate on behalf of C&SI and ABL Credit Risk in workstreams addressing data management, regulatory topics, new processes, and technology enhancements as a contributing member; support UAT, training, and user feedback collection under senior guidance, escalating cross‑impacts and risks.

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor’s degree required.
  • 2+ years of experience in a commercial or investment bank credit or banking role.
  • Experience in audit, control, operations, or program management roles, with a track record of exceeding performance expectations.
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills, including experience presenting to executive leadership.
  • Broad corporate lending knowledge and experience, including knowledge of primary corporate lending regulations and reporting requirements.
  • Detail-oriented with the ability to multi-task and effectively deliver work products in a time-sensitive, team-based environment.
  • Experience in control and process oversight, including gap identification, root cause analysis, control design and execution, and control management and monitoring.
  • Understanding of data management and proficiency with Microsoft applications such as Excel, Office, SharePoint, and PowerPoint.

Nice to have

  • Demonstrated experience in credit risk approvals, credit analysis, and administration.
  • Knowledge of wholesale credit risk and risk policies, procedures, and standards.
  • Reporting and analytical experience.
  • Experience with Artificial Intelligence tools such as Alteryx and LLM models.
  • Basic SharePoint design and project management experience.
  • Project Management Professional certification is a plus.

What the JD emphasized

  • Broad corporate lending knowledge and experience, including knowledge of primary corporate lending regulations and reporting requirements.
  • Experience in control and process oversight, including gap identification, root cause analysis, control design and execution, and control management and monitoring.
  • Understanding of data management and proficiency with Microsoft applications such as Excel, Office, SharePoint, and PowerPoint.