Financial controller - Associate

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

As a Financial Controller in our Finance team, you will spend each day defining, refining, and delivering reliable financial reporting and control outcomes for our global business. As a Financial Control Associate in our Finance team, you will spend each day applying best practices in consolidation, leveraging reporting systems, and using strong analytical judgment to uphold the integrity of our books and records.

You will be responsible for managing the financial reporting process, including developing and maintaining financial reports and schedules, executing and reviewing post‑closing entries, performing control and substantiation procedures, and ensuring compliance with regulatory reporting requirements. You will partner closely with line of business controllers, Middle Office, and Operations to understand the operational impact of trading activity and to safeguard the accuracy of our P&L, balance sheet, and disclosures. Our Financial Control teams are responsible for a wide range of activities including ledger integrity and governance, month‑end and quarter‑end close management, financial statement preparation and review across multiple legal entities and geographies, balance sheet reconciliations and substantiation, variance and trend analysis, post‑closing entry controls, regulatory reporting compliance, and partnership with technology and operations to strengthen end‑to‑end processes and reporting systems.

 

Job responsibilities

• Manage the monthly consolidation of JPMorgan Chase income statement and balance sheet
• Develop and maintain financial reports and schedules while controlling post-closing entries and consolidation adjustments; perform control procedures to ensure the integrity of reported financial results
• Participate in all aspects of the production of the monthly financial Variance Analysis Report
• Support ad-hoc requests for financial information received from across the firm
• Work with various areas to research, escalate, and clear cash and settlement exceptions in a timely manner
• Collaborate with businesses and controllers to understand and approve monthly profit and loss statements, while completing the monthly general ledger reconciliation process

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Basic experience with a financial consolidation and reporting system (i.e., SAP interface)
• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or related business field
• Basic knowledge of industry standards and regulations for US GAAP and/or IFRS Standards
• Chartered Accountant or MBA Finance or equivalent degree from any other university
• Aptitude for learning and leveraging systems and data flows
• Basic understanding of the firm’s products and their accounting
• 6 years of relevant work experience in the same industry or controllership or accounting domain

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Ability to critically challenge with the goal of identifying control issues
• Basic understanding of transformation/visualization products such as Alteryx, Tableau, UI Path, and other Intelligent Solutions (skills will be an added advantage)
• Ability to quickly understand workings of a complex processing system and general ledger systems across the infrastructure and their interrelationships and dependencies