Associate - Legal Entity Controller, Bangalore

JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) is a leading global financial services firm with assets of $2.6 trillion and operations worldwide. The firm is a leader in investment banking, financial services for consumers, small business and commercial banking, financial transaction processing, and asset management.

The Legal Entity Control team is responsible for financial oversight of their legal entity, and is tasked with ensuring that a strong control environment exists as it relates to all businesses, products, and operational areas that impact the Legal Entity financials and regulatory reporting of the firm.

As an Associate - Legal Entity Controller you wil have the opportunity to interact with multiple lines of business and internal stakeholders while learning legal entity controllership end-to-end.  The Associate will liaise with the line of business finance teams, operations, and the Legal Entity Controller community to drive the Legal Entity agenda. 

Job Responsibilities

• Managing the Legal entity accounting & control, including month-end close process, parent/child accounting, and equity pick-up
• Monitoring the monthly consolidation of income statement and balance sheet
• Reviewing the Month-End analytical  of the legal entity to ensure completeness and accuracy of the financial statements and preparation of various reports, including contributions to the Monthly Controller’s Book, as well as Legal Entity and Line of Business financial commentary
• Develop and maintain financial reports and schedules and perform various control procedures to ensure the integrity of reported financial results
• Investigate, analyze, and resolve issues, and support ad-hoc requests for financial information received from across the firm, support Federal Reserve regulatory reporting
• Review and confirm periodic financial and non-financial appendices on resolution & recovery.

Required qualifications, capabilities and skills

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance or related business field
• Proficient Excel skills, organizational and problem-solving skills
• Comfortable liaising with business partners while building and maintaining relationships
• Ability to critically challenge with the goal of identifying control issues
• Show initiative; be able to work independently yet keep all parties apprised of key issues
• Ability to work on multiple priorities at the same time
• Ability to learn quickly and be comfortable to navigate various reporting systems/tools

Preferred qualifications, capabilities and skills

• CPA a plus but not required