Corporate Finance & Business Management: Financial Control Analyst
Job Description
The Financial Control team is part of Corporate Finance and provides financial control services across business aligned teams. There are also several cross business teams including core accounting, regulatory reporting and an internal control team that houses the functions and processes common to all businesses. This model allows the participating businesses to more easily share best practices and better leverage their collective talent, all while ensuring that the business-aligned teams keep their strong connection and relationships with the business managers in the primary locations. The FC organization is made up of over 600 people and is based in Newark, Delaware and Mumbai, India.
The Financial Control Analyst will be required to 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.
Primary Responsibilities of a Financial Control Analysts will include, but are not limited to:
- Responsible for ensuring the accuracy and validity of line of business general ledger accounts; including adherence to the firmwide General Ledger Reconciliation & Substantiation (GLRS) standards
- Ensure adherence to P&L and Balance Sheet controls owned by Financial Control; including identifying and implementing opportunities for efficiency
- Analysis, communication and resolution of material variances between the general ledger and upstream systems; as defined by line of business
Skills:
- Basic understanding of securities and derivatives products
- Comfort liaising with business and risk managers
- Ability to build and maintain partnerships within the various product aligned businesses and across other corporate financial, treasury, and accounting groups
- Existing relationships and networks within JPMorgan IB community an advantage
- Ability 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.
Required Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or Business
- Excellent desktop/spreadsheet/database skills
- Excellent organizational and problem-solving skills
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to multi-task in a constantly changing environment
- Able to critically challenge with the goal of identifying control issues
***Note: This role requires compliance with the Firm’s Consecutive Leave Policy. The policy requires certain employees in sensitive positions to be out of the office for a specified period each calendar year. Please ask the recruiter or hiring manager for additional details***
