JPMorgan Financial Control - Associate 

India, Maharashtra, Mumbai 

47144805

As a Global Finance and Business Management professional within our Financial Control function, you will primarily focus on ensuring the accuracy, integrity, and timeliness of the firm’s books and records. You will have an emphasis on general ledger, operating systems, and infrastructure controls across the entire lifecycle of the business. You will be responsible for balance sheet reconciliation/certification, balance sheet substantiation, and GLRS reporting & governance, inter-entity control and governance, manual accounting/bookings to the GL, and operating systems and the month-end close process & coordination. This role provides an opportunity to build and maintain partnerships within the various product aligned businesses and across other corporate financial, treasury, and accounting groups.

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
• 3+ years of related experience
• Strong understanding of securities and derivatives products
• General Ledger experience
• Experience with financial reporting and month end close responsibilities
• Comfortable liaising with business and risk managers
• 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
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Able to multi-task in a constantly changing environment
• Able to critically challenge with the goal of identifying control issue

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

• Existing relationships and networks within the firm's IB community an advantage