Corporate Controllers - Finance Control - Associate

Step into a dynamic role at JPMorgan Chase as an Financial Controller. The Financial Control function is primarily focused on ensuring the accuracy, integrity and timeliness of the firm’s books and records with an emphasis on general ledger, operating systems and infrastructure controls across the entire lifecycle of the business. 

Some of the most common functions and activities that are owned by Financial Controllers are MTD PL reconciliations, balance sheet reconciliation, balance sheet substantiation and GLRS reporting & governance, inter-entity control and governance, manual accounting / bookings to the GL, and operating systems and the month end close process & coordination.

As a Financial Control Associate, on the corporate controllers team,  you will be responsible for weekly and month end close PL reconciliation and balance sheet substantiation, as well as reporting controls, and the month end close process and coordination.

Job Responsibilities:

• Ensure the accuracy and validity of line of business general ledger balance sheet accounts, including adherence to the firmwide General Ledger Attestation (GLA) standards
• Ensure adherence to P&L and Balance Sheet controls owned by Financial Control, including identifying and implementing opportunities for efficiency
• Analyze, communicate, and resolve material variances between the general ledger and upstream systems, as defined by line of business
• Work  closely with various line of business controllers, middle office, business managers, technology and operations
• Understand end-to-end flow of trading activities, booking models, product configurations, and trade economics to apply relative accounting policies and enhance control framework
• Ensure the integrity and accuracy of line of business income statement and balance sheet at month, quarter, and year-ends
• Engage in line of business initiatives and projects, be the financial control subject matter expert and have the ability to proactively identify process and/or infrastructure enhancements and work with stakeholders to enact change
• Oversee preparation of the firm's primary financial statements at quarter-end for use in the earnings release and Securities Exchange Commission filings
• Control post-closing entries and consolidation adjustments and Perform various control procedures to ensure the integrity of reported financial results
• Manage intercompany eliminations, a key component of the financial consolidation process
• Enhance the overall control environment around the financial reporting function and Mobilize change wherever possible in order to simplify processes, enhance controls and create efficiencies 

Required Qualifications, Skills, and Capabilities:

• Bachelor’s degree required
• Minimum 3+ years of related experience
• General Ledger accounting experience
• Experience with financial reporting and month end close responsibilities & Understanding of Financial Products
• Comfortable liaising with business and risk managers
• Able to build and maintain partnerships within the various product aligned businesses and across other corporate financial, treasury, and accounting groups
• Able to understand business drivers and requirements and influence middle and front office partners to deliver solutions to business issues and problems
• Strong analytical skills: Ability to quickly understand workings of a complex processing system and general ledger systems across the infrastructure and their interrelationships and dependencies
• Excellent desktop/spreadsheet/database skills
• Excellent organizational and problem-solving skills, verbal and written communication skills
• Able to multi-task in a constantly changing environment and the Ability to critically challenge with the goal of identifying control issues