Finance Assistant jobs in United States, New Jersey, Jersey City

• Experience in Inventory Finance, preferred
• Experience within Receivables Finance with Bank or Factoring company
• Experience in working on innovative solutions for clients and developing the product to address bespoke client and market needs

Job responsibilities

• Develops a product strategy and product vision that delivers value to customers
• Own and articulate the product vision and roadmap, ensuring alignment with company strategy and customer needs.
• Owns, maintains, and develops a product backlog that enables development to support the overall strategic roadmap and value proposition
• Builds the framework and tracks the product's key success metrics such as cost, feature and functionality, risk posture, and reliability
• Collaborate with architects and engineering teams to address technical debt, application security breaks, Clearinghouse projects and drive technical innovation.
• Lead product launch activities, including communications such as release notes, quarterly and monthly reviews, training, user acceptance testing, and post-deployment analysis.
• Author use cases, prioritize requirements, and maintain a clear, actionable product backlog.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on security concepts and 5+ years of applied experience.
• Advanced knowledge of the product development life cycle, design, and data analytics.
• Good hands on technical knowledge in security, architecture, InfoSec trends, compliance, and risk.
• Hands on experience with Data Loss Prevention (DLP) tools and platforms (Broadcom DLP).
• Lead product life cycle activities including discovery, ideation, strategic development, requirements definition, and value management.
• Expertise in standard documentation tools/utilities.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Working in a highly matrixed, complex organization.
• Experience in security design, architecture, incident response, and strategic planning.
• Professional project or product certifications (e.g., PMP, CAPM, SPM, PDMA) or equivalent experience.
  

As a Control Manager - Senior Associate within the Treasury/Chief Investment Office, you will be in the first line of defense, collaborating with business executives and process owners to identify risks, assess impacts, design sustainable controls, and monitor their effectiveness. You will support the execution of the Control and Operational Risk Evaluation (CORE) program for the Treasury/Chief Investment Office, with a focus on the Finance function, supporting the Investment Portfolio and Treasury Funding teams.

Job responsibilities:

• Maintain the CORE Process, Risk and Control inventory, and related risk impact and control effectiveness ratings to provide an accurate reflection of the business’ operational risk profile
• Partner with the central testing utility to assess the results of control design and performance evaluations
• Lead top-down risk analysis, real time control issue detection, escalation, root cause analysis and remediation; work with a sense of urgency on emerging issues
• Perform lessons learned analyses on internal and/or external risk events and assess potential weaknesses / identify opportunities for improvement
• Identify meaningful metrics (KRIs/KPIs) as indicators of the operational risk and control environment; escalate control deficiencies based on key reporting indicators; Facilitate change management reviews with Process Owners
• Execute against the requirements of various other firm control and compliance programs, which may include but not be limited to: SOX and CCAR CFO Attestation Program, NBIA/business change management, Office of Legal Obligations, Estimations and Model Risk Management, User Tool, and Intelligent Solutions Control Frameworks
• Partner with colleagues from the LOBs and Functions such as Compliance, Risk, Legal, HR, and Technology to drive consistent and rigorous operational risk and control practices; partner with regional business and other control partners in an effort to create consistency in the control environment and underlying processes globally
• Respond timely to challenges and recommendations from the 2nd Line of Defense (Compliance Conduct & Operational Risk) and 3rd Line of Defense teams (Internal Audit) teams
• Support Regulator and other reviews and escalate inquiries and findings as necessary; contribute items for escalation to the T/CIO Control Committee
• Serve as a trusted controls partner to the Business and act as their go-to for all controls related matters

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

• Bachelor’s degree required
• 5+ years of experience in financial services industry with background in controls, audit, SOX, quality assurance, operational risk management, or bank financial reporting
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

• Understanding of financial, capital and liquidity reporting including, but not limited to, 10K/Q, FR Y-14, FR Y-9C, LCR, NSFR
• Subject matter expertise in portfolio management, treasury, and related financial and regulatory reporting
• Understanding of banking regulations
• Familiarity or experience with Alteryx or similar data manipulation and workflow automation tools
  

As a Senior Executive Assistant in Enterprise Technology, you will need to work well in a team environment, be able to represent the manager/group with professional courtesy and acumen, and deliver flawless work output. Your daily routine also includes interaction with various executive level internal clients across the lines of businesses. You will need to adapt procedures, processes and techniques to complete assignments in line with the department's activities and goals.

Job responsibilities

• Maintain complex and detailed calendars
• Screen incoming calls and determine the level of priority, while using caution in dispensing information
• Manage the coordination and logistics of both internal and external meetings
• Arrange and coordinate complicated domestic and international travel
• Organize all aspects of internal and external events, including catering and transportation
• Process invoices and T&E expense claims for team members, ensuring all policies are followed and items are processed within provided guidelines
• Assist with staff on-boarding and off-boarding, which includes requesting equipment setup and system access
• Produce high quality emails and messages to individuals at all levels of the organization
• Maintain department documents, including current organizational charts and Executive Bio’s
• Handle regular activities without prompting, and advise in advance with issues or delays
• Assist in editing spreadsheets and presentations, including printing and binding, for client meetings

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• At least five years of administrative experience
• Advanced ability to organize
• Discretion and good judgment in confidential situations, and proven experience interacting with senior management
• Strong interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills
• Strong proficiency in Microsoft Office
• Excellent telephone etiquette and ability to manage competing priorities i.e. calendar management

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience supporting at the Managing Director level (or equivalent) or above
• College degree is a plus

As the Director of Software Engineering at JPMorgan Chase within Asset and Wealth Management - Private Equity, you will lead a technical area and promote impact across teams, technologies, and projects within various departments. You will leverage your extensive knowledge of software, applications, technical processes, and product management to oversee multiple complex projects and initiatives. In this role, you will serve as the primary decision maker for your teams and act as a catalyst for innovation and solution delivery.

Job Responsibilities:

• Leads technology and process implementations to achieve functional technology objectives
• Makes decisions that influence teams’ resources, budget, tactical operations, and the execution and implementation of processes and procedures
• Carries governance accountability for coding decisions, control obligations, and measures of success such as cost of ownership, maintainability, and portfolio operations
• Delivers technical solutions that can be leveraged across multiple businesses and domains
• Influences peer leaders and senior stakeholders across the business, product, and technology teams
• Champions the firm’s culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 10+ years applied experience. In addition, 5+ years of experience leading technologists to manage, anticipate and solve complex technical items within your domain of expertise
• Proven experience of leading a team of engineers to deliver mission critical projects
• Experience developing or leading cross-functional teams of technologists
• Hands-on practical to manage tech resources and guide them in tech architecture, design and coding best practices in an Investment Management firm
• Advanced in AWS, Java, React JS, and JavaScript
• Advanced functional knowledge and experience of Private Equity Business
• Ability to manage technology work pipeline using Agile and SDLC
• Written and verbal communication covering tech, product and business stakeholders
• Executive presence and ability to influence Senior leaders in Private Equity Businesses

• Expertise in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Knowledge in Python
• Understanding of Data structures and data management

• Experience using BI tools

Job responsibilities

• Draft and negotiate agreements for key CCB strategic partnerships and engagements.
• Provide strategic, commercially pragmatic, and transparent advice to business partners.
• Provide ongoing support and assistance to business partners, other legal teams and functional partners as to contract interpretation.
• Provide early stage “seat at the table” strategy and pre-term sheet legal support, including issue-spotting, researching, and appropriately escalating risks and concerns that may exist with any potential deal type.
• Participate in cross line of business initiatives.
• Manage external counsel on discrete deals (as much of the work is done in-house as possible).

Required qualifications, capabilities and skills

• Licensed attorney with at least 5 years of legal experience.
• On-point transactional experience with strong technical drafting skills.
• The ability to stay calm when the pressure is on and the confidence to be outspoken when necessary while maintaining a good sense of humor.
• Entrepreneurial, business-minded, and a creative problem solver.
• The ability to see past the question, understand the wider strategy, and think tactically to get to the best result for all parties.
• The ability to pivot between priorities and have the perseverance and patience to see a matter through to completion.

Preferred qualification, capabilities, and skills

• Prior in-house experience, financial services experience, and/or experience with technology/digital transactions and partnership agreements would be a significant plus.

As a Senior Internal Audit Associate on the Commercial and Investment Banking Finance Audit team, you will be involved in all stages of the audit lifecycle. You will be executing program of audit coverage over Commercial and Investment Bank’s financial controls, including assessment of integrity of financial statements and compliance with various external/regulatory reporting requirements. You will also be assessing controls supporting adequacy of inputs into capital planning processes, as well as accuracy of management, legal entity and liquidity reporting.

Job responsibilities

• Participate in all stages of audit cycle, including audit planning, audit testing execution, control evaluation, audit workpapers documentation, drafting of audit issues and audit reports, and follow-up on and verification of issue closure. Ensure audit tasks are completed timely and within budget.
• Work closely with global Audit colleagues in the early identification of emerging control issues and reporting them timely to Audit management and business stakeholders.
• Establish strong working relationships with stakeholders and other control groups, while maintaining independence.
• Stay up to date on evolving industry, accounting, and regulatory developments impacting CIB Finance, and take initiative to seek out opportunities for continued learning.
• Take ownership of self-development, including stretch assignments, to prepare for greater responsibilities and career growth.
• Recognize the confidential nature of Internal Audit communications and access to information; be disciplined in protecting the confidentiality and security of information in accordance with firm’s policy.

Required qualifications, capabilities and skills

• 5+ years of internal or external auditing or operational risk experience, could be in combination with relevant business experience
• Bachelor's degree
• Experience with internal audit methodology and applying concepts in audit delivery and execution
• Solid understanding of internal control concepts, with the ability to evaluate and determine the adequacy of controls
• Great interpersonal and influencing skills, with the ability to establish credibility and create partnerships with senior business and control partners
• Advanced analytical skills
• Understanding of financial risks and controls
• Adaptable to changing business priorities and able to multitask in a constantly changing environment

Preferred qualifications, capabilities and skills

• Prior experience with Big 4 accounting firm or internal audit department in financial services industry
• Exposure to capital planning (CCAR), broker-dealer and bank regulatory reporting, and Treasury/liquidity reporting processes
• CPA
• Experience with data analytics, Alteryx and advanced excel functionality