# Derivatives Master Documentation Negotiator, Assistant Vice President

**Company**: JPMorgan Chase
**Location**: Hong Kong
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Legal
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

We are seeking a Derivatives Master Documentation Negotiator to work within the Markets Legal team. As a Derivatives Master Documentation Negotiator - Assistant Vice President, you will be responsible for the front-to-end negotiation of various markets master agreements supporting the APAC Markets business.

Your role includes providing comprehensive legal and regulatory advice related to these documents, ensuring compliance with relevant laws and regulations and strong collaboration with clients and internal stakeholders to facilitate negotiations and resolve any legal issues that arise.

**Responsibilities:**

- Prepare, negotiate and execute various trading master agreements with institutional clients.

- Review and analyze legal documentation to determine capacity and authority to enter into the Master Agreements.

- Review and advise on transaction level documentation such as termsheets and trade confirmations.

- Assist with monitoring of ongoing local and global regulatory developments.

- Develop and maintain external client and front office sales relationships.

- Work closely with various stakeholders to ensure completion of front to end onboarding of clients with respect to the Master Agreements.

- Participate in internal and industry working group calls and global calls actively.

- Assist with leading various project driven initiatives both locally and regionally.

**Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills:**

- Qualified lawyer and/or holder of law degree with at least 3 years of derivatives documentation negotiation experience.

- Experience with Markets Master Agreement negotiations for Asia-Pacific clients.

- Good understanding of global and local regulatory changes in the derivatives area.

- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills and organizational skills.

- High integrity and a good team player.

- Able to work under pressure and manage internal and external client expectations.

- Solid quantitative skills and strong interest in business, economics and law.

- Proficiency and interest in technology and systems development.

- Organized, pro-active, ability to handle multiple priority matters simultaneously and work efficiently within tight timeframes, detail-oriented and self-sufficient.

- Experience working in a fast-paced environment is a must.

**Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills:**

- Fluency in Chinese (Mandarin) is preferred.

- Good understanding of the regulatory landscape impacting derivatives form a US bank perspective.

- Experience with Futures & Options and OTC Clearing is a plus.

## Skills

### Required
- derivatives documentation negotiation
- Markets Master Agreement negotiations
- Asia-Pacific clients
- regulatory changes
- interpersonal and communication skills
- organizational skills
- quantitative skills
- technology and systems development
- Mandarin

### Nice to have
- Futures & Options
- OTC Clearing
- regulatory landscape impacting derivatives

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