JPMorgan Finance & Business Management - Senior Associate Home Lending 

United States, Ohio, Columbus 

336549049

As a Senior Associate in Finance and Business Management in our Home Lending Serving Financial Analysis team, you will analyze, prepare, and reconcile accounting and technical data as well as prepare reports, while always thinking of and devising ways to streamline and minimize cycle times through automated applications and process improvement. 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:

• Manage 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
• Conduct efficiency reporting, analytics and strategy - including, but not limited to - location strategy, span of control, reporting and analytics
• Create financial business cases supporting business initiatives
• Report on and monitor key metrics, driving data quality initiatives across the product area, and helping define future needs of the product area
• Develop and track performance metrics, create presentations with effective storytelling, and generally providing financial analysis on a variety of topics to senior management
• Perform variance analysis to understand the key drivers of the results and presenting commentary to senior managers, explaining changes from prior forecasts/budgets
• Help design new reports and dashboards to efficiently deliver the financial results to senior management

Required Qualifications, Skills, and Capabilities:

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance or a subject of a technical nature
• 4+ 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
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex issues clearly