Climate & Environmental Risk Analyst

Bring your Expertise to JPMorgan Chase.  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.

As an analyst in the Climate & Environmental Risk team, you will work on the development and implementation of catastrophe modelling and physical risk analytics, working closely with stakeholders across risk, data, and technology teams. You will work closely with partners across the Firm to deliver actionable insights for credit and financial loss modelling, supporting the firm’s transition to a low-carbon economy and resilience to physical climate risks. This role would suit either a candidate with experience in catastrophe modelling/climate who is passionate to learn more about financial risk management, or an existing financial risk analyst who is keen to apply their experience and learn about climate risk.

Job Responsibilities 

• Verify, analyze, and explain inputs and outputs of physical risk analysis across multiple internal and externally developed climate models. Perform scenario and impact quantification analysis. 

• Partner with cross-functional teams to embed climate risk analysis into financial risk processes, tools, and frameworks.
• Deliver multiple projects to deadline with strong organization and discipline; demonstrate strong data visualization, analytical rigor, problem solving, and resourcefulness.
• Support the team’s focus on continuous improvement by leading efforts to identify and implement technology, tools, automation to reduce inefficiencies and enhance productivity.
• Work closely with global climate physical risk team to develop, enhance and deploy physical risk analytics across JPMC beyond catastrophe modelling

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills 

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Mathematics, Statistics, Finance, or related fields.
• 1+ years of relevant work experience in Financial Risk Analytics or Climate Risk Analytics
• Excellent problem-solving, communication, and teamwork skills.
• Enthusiastic about knowledge sharing, collaboration and innovation
• Strong interpersonal skills – you listen and communicate in a direct, succinct manner.
• Proven ability to develop collaborative relationships with key internal partners to achieve objectives and prioritizations
• Strong data analytical skills and problem-solving skills
• Takes initiative, has a proactive mindset, and drives results independently
• Proficiency in programming languages such as R or Python, and geospatial data analysis