Financial Control - Analyst

You are a strategic thinker passionate about ensuring financial control. You have found the right team.

As a Financial Controller in our firm, you will spend each day defining, refining, and delivering key mandates for our business. Your primary responsibility will be to ensure the integrity of the books and records of the firm and its lines of business. You will govern systemic and manual controls, particularly as they impact the General Ledger and processing systems. Your role involves validating the integrity of the Profit & Loss and Balance Sheet by executing various checks and balances. You will collaborate with multiple Controllers groups, Middle Offices, Operations, and Technology teams within the firm to prepare and review financial statements across various JP Morgan legal entities and geographies. Additionally, you will work with diverse teams to research, escalate, and resolve exceptions to the general ledger and other interfacing systems, ensuring the integrity of our ledger and risk management systems.

Job responsibilities

• Partner with various Controllers 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 - 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 with 2 years experience
• Basic knowledge of industry standards and regulations for US GAAP &/or IFRS Standards
• 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

• CA/MBAs 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