Financial Controller - Associate

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

As a Financial control Professional in our Finance team you will spend each day defining, refining and delivering set goals for our firm.

Job Responsibilities 

· Manage the monthly consolidation of JPMorgan Chase income statement and balance sheet

· Develop and maintain financial reports and schedules & Complete monthly general ledger reconciliation process

· Control post-closing entries and consolidation adjustments

· Perform various control procedures to ensure the integrity of reported financial results

· Support ad-hoc requests for financial information received from across the firm

· Work closely with the line of business controllers, middle office and operations areas to understand the operational impact of trading strategies and settlement practices for the businesses globally

· Work with various areas to research, escalate, and clear cash and settlement exceptions in a timely manner & Work with the businesses and controllers to understand and sign off on monthly profit and loss

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

· Excellent verbal and written communication skill & organizational, problem-solving skills, negotiation and analytical skills

· Excellent desktop/spreadsheet/database skills

· Ability to work well under pressure and balance multiple priorities & Ability to critically challenge with the goal of identifying control issues

· Ability to build and maintain partnerships within the various product aligned businesses and across other corporate groups

· Ability to understand business drivers and requirements and influence others to deliver solutions

· Ability to quickly understand workings of a complex processing system and general ledger systems across the infrastructure and their interrelationships and dependencies

· Aptitude for learning and leveraging systems and data flows & have basic understanding of the firm’s products

· Basic experience with a financial consolidation and reporting system (i.e. SAP interface)

· In-depth knowledge of industry standards and regulations

· Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or Business (or equivalent experience)

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

· CPA license beneficial in some FAIR roles but not required