Financial Controller, Associate

Join JPMorgan Chase's Financial Control team where you'll play a critical role in safeguarding the accuracy and integrity of the Firm's financial records across the business.

As a Financial Controller Associate on the Financial Control team, you are primarily focused on ensuring the accuracy, integrity and timeliness of the Firm’s books and records, with an emphasis on general ledger, operating systems and infrastructure controls across the entire lifecycle of the business.

Some of the most common functions and activities that are owned by Financial Controllers are balance sheet reconciliation / certification, balance sheet substantiation and general ledger reconciliation and substantiation (GLRS) reporting and governance, inter-entity control & governance, manual accounting / bookings to the general ledger (GL), and operating systems and the month end close process and coordination.

Job responsibilities

• Ensure 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
• Analyze, communicate, and resolve material variances between the general ledger and upstream systems, as defined by line of business

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting
• 4+ years of related experience
• Strong understanding of securities and derivatives products; Able to critically challenge with the goal of identifying control issues
• General Ledger, financial reporting and month end close responsibilities experience
• Comfortable liaising with business and risk managers; relationships and networks within the firm's IB community
• Able to build and maintain partnerships within the various product aligned businesses and across other corporate financial, treasury, and accounting groups
• Able 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
• Excellent desktop/spreadsheet/database skills
• Excellent organizational and problem-solving skills; able to multi-task in a constantly changing environment
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• CPA license beneficial in some FFAR roles, but not required
• Knowledge of other financial reporting systems beneficial

Candidates must be able to physically work in our Columbus, OH office 5 days a week.

To be eligible for this role, you must be authorized to work in the United States. We do not offer any type of employment-based immigration sponsorship for this role. Likewise, JPMorgan Chase & Co. will not provide any assistance or sign any documentation in support of any other form of immigration sponsorship or benefit, including optional practical training (OPT) or curricular practical training (CPT).