JPMorgan Strategic Accounting Infrastructure & Control - Vice President 

United States, Delaware 

310749468

As a Vice President on the Strategic Finance Program Management unit in the Strategic Accounting Infrastructure and Control (SAIC) team, you will partner with various stakeholder across multiple regions to deliver project objectives throughout multiple phases including requirements documentation, functional analysis, and testing. You will have opportunities to leverage your product knowledge, problem solving ability, and accounting expertise to partner with finance, tech, ops for the project ranges from production uplifts / remediations, Industry / Line of Business (LOB) initiatives. You must be a self-starter who is able to work in a fast paced, results driven environment.

Job Responsibilities:

• Provide and document detailed accounting requirements for finance organization adhering to US and local General Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP)
• Liaise with controllers organization to document requirements and pain points to include in design accounting architecture design, work closely with operations support areas to ensure requirements align and met between both organizations
• Work closely with technology developing logic to meet finance requirements
• Ensure strategic infrastructure design meets Finance Principles and Big Rules established
• Analyze controls to ensure the strategic infrastructure operates within a solid control environment- including identifying any opportunities for process and control improvements
• Write and execute User Acceptance Testing (UAT) test cases; participate in End To End (E2E), production parallel and conversion testing
• Liaise with PMO and assist with overall governance/ communicate updates to finance stakeholders and engage for review and design decision throughout the project lifecycle.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

• 6+ years finance experience; must have Fixed Income experience.
• Understanding of general ledger and accounting functions and processes
• Strong working knowledge of MS Excel (Pivot tables, v-lookups). PowerPoint and Word
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills including root cause analysis and ability to provide solutions
• Strong written and verbal communication skills; strong presentation skills

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

• Preferred experience as controller or accounting/general ledger support function.
• Attention to detail and ability to work independently
• Organized and self-motivated
• Strong multitasking and prioritizing skills