Vice President, Centralized Research Group - Security & Resiliency Initiative

About the role

The Centralized Research Group (CRG) at J.P. Morgan Chase is hiring a Vice President to support the firm's global Security & Resiliency Initiative (SRI), a 10-year strategic plan addressing economic security across sectors like supply chains, defense, energy, and healthtech. Based in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, the VP combines strategic research, financial analysis, and transaction execution to develop investment theses, pitchbooks, and thought leadership that help bankers, clients, and policymakers address critical economic security challenges. The role involves leading client projects, managing analysts, and leveraging AI/LLM tools to accelerate research and analytical outputs.

What you’ll do

• Work closely with SRI teams across the globe and support in preparing pitch books and marketing materials that senior client bankers take to clients during meetings
• Drive day-to-day project management and delivery of entire engagement and impactful recommendations
• Lead one or more client projects, including managing multiple associates/analysts across several workstreams
• Analyze markets, policies, and supply chains to identify structural risks and resilience opportunities across priority sectors
• Evaluate strategic supply chains, identify critical bottlenecks and dependencies, and develop actionable frameworks to improve resilience, capacity expansion, and industrial production capabilities
• Develop and refine investment theses, business cases, and impact assessments to inform strategic decision-making and capital allocation
• Conduct valuation and transaction analyses including DCF, trading comps, transaction comps, and LBOs; develop proprietary research, thematic perspectives, and strategic assessments for clients, policy
• Monitor policy, regulatory, industrial strategy, and government funding developments relevant to SRI focus areas and assess implications for clients and capital deployment opportunities

What you’ll bring

• CA or MBA qualification with minimum 8 years of experience in investment banking, research, strategic consulting, investing, or other fields relevant to SRI sectors
• Excellent academic record
• Strong client management and executive-level communication skills
• Excellent interpersonal skills with ability to operate in a fast-growing, entrepreneurial environment with cross-functional, cross-level stakeholders
• Exceptional written communication skills to produce clear, executive-ready presentations, research reports, and strategic recommendations
• Excellent quantitative and analytical skills with ability to synthesize large amounts of information
• Demonstrated ability to translate complex industry, policy, technical, and geopolitical developments into actionable insights
• Close attention to detail and ability to work at very high standards of precision under tight deadlines

Nice to have

• Experience in one or more SRI sectors, including supply chain and advanced manufacturing, defense, energy, semiconductors, critical minerals, strategic technologies, pharmaceuticals, healthtech, or in
• Understanding of industrial policy, economic security, strategic supply chains, government and policy tools, export controls, or related policy frameworks
• Exposure to blended finance, risk-sharing structures, and public-private partnerships
• Demonstrated ability to build proprietary research frameworks and generate differentiated market insights
• Experience coordinating complex diligence processes across multiple stakeholders
• Track record of excellence within investment banking and strong academic foundation
• Pursuing or completed additional financial certifications such as CFA, FRM
• Proficiency with AI/LLM tools and workflows to enhance research, drafting, and analytical tasks

Skills

Education

CA or MBA qualification