JPMorgan Finance & Business Management - Home Lending Associate 

United States, Ohio 

232058203

As a Finance and Business Manager in our Home Lending Serving Financial Analysis team, you will be responsible for analyzing data, preparing reports, performing research, and forecasting staffing needs for the business to ensure our customers’ needs are met. To succeed in this role, you’ll need to have a genuine interest in using data and information to solve real business challenges, strong analytical abilities, and a very good communication skills. You will also help develop recommendations effecting business procedures and operations and maintain financial and reporting systems. In addition, you will assist the department and other team members with special projects or components of other projects as needed.

Job Responsibilities:

• Managing annual/continual financial planning activities for product areas, providing business rationale and decisions for all month-end financial performance and forecasting, conducting reviews and analysis on product financial performance, consumption/demand planning, budgeting, billing, trends, and exception reports
• Prepare capacity models to predict staffing needs in collaboration with business partners.
• Conducting efficiency reporting, analytics and strategy - including, but not limited to - location strategy, span of control, reporting and analytics
• Creating capacity requirements supporting business initiatives
• Reporting on and monitoring key metrics, driving data quality initiatives across the product area, and helping define future needs of the product area
• Developing and tracking performance metrics, creating presentations with effective storytelling, and generally providing capacity analysis on a variety of topics to senior management
• Performing variance analysis to understand the key drivers of the results and presenting commentary to senior managers, explaining changes from prior forecasts/budgets
• Helping design new reports and dashboards to efficiently deliver the capacity results to senior management

Required Qualifications, Skills, and Capabilities:

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance or a subject of a technical nature
• 2+ years of Financial Services, and/or accounting/controller experience
• Advanced skills in Excel and PowerPoint
• Proficiency with data mining/gathering and manipulation of data sets
• Ability to create ad hoc reporting for senior management
• Proven track record for executing on special projects / assignments, often with little lead time or information
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills with ability to analyze large data sets and present conclusions concisely

Preferred Qualifications, Skills, and Capabilities:

• Able to thrive and think clearly under pressure and tight deadlines
• Team player with the ability to be respected as a trusted partner for the Business, Finance, and FP&A Teams
• Highly motivated self-starter with excellent time management/prioritization skills
• Inquisitive, enthusiastic and diligent, and capable of challenging peers