Financial Controller - Analyst

You are a meticulous professional passionate about ensuring financial integrity and robust controls. You have found the right team.

As a Financial Controller within the Finance team, you will be accountable for the integrity of the firm’s books and records, enabling governance of both systemic and manual controls impacting the General Ledger and processing systems. Each day, you will validate the accuracy of the P&L and balance sheet through rigorous checks and balances, collaborate with Controllers groups, Middle Office, Operations, and Technology teams, and prepare and review financial statements across various JP Morgan legal entities and geographies. Your role will involve researching, escalating, and resolving exceptions to the general ledger and interfacing systems, ensuring the integrity of our ledger and risk management processes.

Job responsibilities

• Partner with various Financial/Legal entity 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 (2 years Experience)
• Basic knowledge of industry standards and regulations for US GAAP &/or IFRS Standards
• 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/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
• 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.