JPMorgan Finance & Business Management Analysis Associate - Corporate Functions 

United States, Texas, Plano 

812070045

As a Finance & Business Management Analysis, Associate in Corporate Functions, you will analyze, prepare, and reconcile accounting and technical data as well as prepare reports. You will also create ways to streamline and minimize cycle times through automated applications and process improvement. This role will help develop recommendations effecting business procedures and operations and maintain financial and reporting systems.

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
• Report efficiency, analytics and strategy - including, but not limited to - location strategy, span of control, reporting and analytics
• Creating financial business cases supporting business initiatives
• Reporting on and monitoring key metrics, data quality initiatives across the product area, and helping define future needs of the product area
• Developing and tracking performance metrics, creating presentations, and generally providing financial 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 financial results to senior management
• Enhancing controls and streamlining processes, introducing automation where possible

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance or a subject of a technical nature
• 3+ years of relevant work experience
• Advanced skills in Excel and PowerPoint
• Proficiency with data mining/gathering and manipulation of data sets
• Inquisitive, enthusiastic and diligent, and capable of challenging peers
• Great verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex issues clearly
• 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
• Highly motivated and able to thrive and think clearly under pressure and tight deadlines
• 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 skill