JP Morgan 1

Question 1

Tell me about yourself

Answer 1

• Who you are:
  
  • Eishan
  • Third year finance student at UBC
• Where you’ve been
  
  • UBC (Teamwork)
  • Badger Infrastructure (Operational Excellence)
  • DSW (Customer Focus)
• Why you are here
  
  • Spoke to financial analyst at Jp Morgan named Ibraheem who had gone through this program, and we spoke for over an hour about his experience.
  • The more we spoke the more it became clear that my skillset in customer service, financial planning and analysis and teamwork would make me an exceptional fit at the organization

Question 2

1. Describe your most challenging team assignment and how you dealt with it

Answer 2

• Operator Onboarding Form
• Manage trucks utilized by organization
• ‘bible’ for operators
• difficult aligning goals with all interns
• took the initiative to sit everyone down and go over the task as well as our respective goals and visions
• reached a common ground and put out a document that we were all happy with
• final product received a lot of praise, and targeted the final goal so effectively that it is actually being used by the company right now

Question 3

1. Describe a time you had to work with a difficult person in your team.

Answer 3

• (fake scenario)
• friend not working
• tried to communicate
• led meeting with him to sit him down and explain the situation
• we learned that he was having problems at home
• we asked what we could do to help the situation
• open communication, dont be quick to judge

Question 4

1. How would you describe your management style?

Answer 4

• coach example (star)
• if someone is passionate about something, they deserve the opportunity to speak their mind
• open communication on both sides

Question 5

1. Rank the top three skills you believe are important to perform this job well.

Answer 5

1) teamwork/communication
2) leadership
3) ownership

Question 6

1. How would you describe the business of JPMorgan Chase?

Answer 6

• largest bank in the world, almost double the market cap of the second biggest (bank of america)
• what this tells me is that jp morgan excels in adapting to a fast paced industry
• constantly revolutionized
• adhering to core principals

Question 7

What are the greatest challenges the financial sector will face in the next five years

Answer 7

• greatest challenge is the greatest opportunity
• fintech and esg
• development of fintech
• cyber security
• staying up to date without being left behind
• managing esg expectations