Financial Controller - Analyst

You are a strategic thinker passionate about driving solutions in financial control and ledger integrity. You have found the right team.

As a Financial Controller in our Finance team, you will spend each day safeguarding the integrity of the firm's books and records and governing systemic and manual controls across the general ledger and processing systems. As a Financial Control Associate in our Finance team, you will spend each day validating the accuracy of the P&L and balance sheet through robust checks and balances and partnering across Controllers, Middle Office, Operations, and Technology to prepare and review financial statements for multiple J.P. Morgan legal entities and geographies.

You will be responsible for researching, escalating, and resolving exceptions across the general ledger and interfacing systems, ensuring endtoend data quality and alignment with risk management systems. Our Financial Control teams are responsible for a wide range of activities including P&L and balance sheet substantiation, monthend and quarterend close governance, variance and trend analysis, balance sheet reconciliations and attestations, financial statement preparation and review, issue management and remediation, and control oversight across ledger and feeder systems-delivering accurate, complete, and compliant financial reporting.

Job responsibilities

• Partner with groups within the firm to prepare & review financial statements across different JP Morgan legal entities and geographies
• Work with various teams to research, escalate, and clear exceptions to the general ledger and other interfacing systems in a timely manner to ensure the integrity of ledger/risk management systems
• Perform monthly General ledger Reconciliation & Substantiation process
• Adhere to various regulatory reporting requirements when performing the reporting / month end close process
• Support various lines of business with business wise - work on performance reporting and their query resolution
• Ensure appropriateness of reference data for account hierarchies
• Perform various reconciliations (Account level, system, inter-company etc.) to ensure financial and reporting integrity
• Participate in user acceptance tests during projects on system implementation/changes & other business initiatives

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or related business field (2 Years Experience)
• Good accounting and finance skills along with the ability to analyze numbers. Good knowledge of banking products e.g. Securities, derivatives etc.
• Ability to understand / comprehend data flows and its impacts across the ledger, Risk Management Systems & reporting systems along with their interrelationships and dependencies.
• Excellent MS Excel (data manipulation, macros, v-lookups, pivot tables) / MS Access/ MS PowerPoint skill sets as well as strong verbal & written communication.
• Adapt in accordance with changing / conflicting priorities and excel during enhanced demand situations due to trading / month end deadlines on the deliverables etc.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Basic knowledge of industry standards and regulations for US GAAP &/or IFRS Standards
• CA/MBA's with 1 year of relevant experience (Controller experience is preferred)
• Basic understanding of transformation/visualization products such as Alteryx, Tableau, UI Path and other Intelligent Solutions Skills will be an added advantage