Financial Controller - Analyst

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

As a Financial Controller in our Finance team, you will spend each day defining, refining, and delivering set goals for our firm. In this role, you will be accountable for ensuring the integrity of the firm s books and records by validating the accuracy of the P&L and balance sheet through rigorous checks and balances. You will collaborate with Controllers, Middle Office, Operations, and Technology teams to prepare and review financial statements across various JP Morgan legal entities and geographies. Your responsibilities will include researching, escalating, and resolving exceptions in the general ledger and related systems, ensuring robust governance and risk management.

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 minimum 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.
• Ability to understand / comprehend data flows and its impacts across the ledger, Risk Management Systems & reporting systems along with their interrelationships and dependencies.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• CA/MBA s with 1 year of relevant experience (Controller experience is preferred)
• Good accounting and finance skills along with the ability to analyze numbers. Good knowledge of banking products e.g. Securities, derivatives etc.
• Basic understanding of transformation/visualization products such as Alteryx, Tableau, UI Path and other Intelligent Solutions Skills will be an added advantage