JPMorgan Financial Analysis - Associate 

India, Maharashtra, Mumbai 

484589521

As a Financial Analyst in our Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) team, you will spend each day defining, refining, and delivering key goals for our firm. You will partner across the organization to provide financial and strategic analysis, oversight, and coordination of budgeting and forecasting. Your responsibilities will include financial control, forecasting and budgeting, analyzing financial and business metrics, and delivering management reporting on a weekly, monthly, and quarterly basis. You will also develop new reporting capabilities, such as dashboards, and advise line of business CFOs on strategies to increase profitability and efficiencies.

In your role, you will analyze, prepare, and reconcile accounting and technical data, while continuously seeking ways to streamline processes and reduce cycle times through automation and process improvement. You will help develop recommendations that impact business procedures and operations and maintain financial and reporting systems. Additionally, you will assist the department and team members with special projects or components

Job responsibilities

• Manage annual and continual financial planning activities for product areas, providing business rationale and decisions for month-end financial performance and forecasting.
• Conduct reviews and analysis on product financial performance, consumption/demand planning, budgeting, billing, trends, and exception reports.
• Report on efficiency, analytics, and strategy, including location strategy, span of control, reporting, and analytics.
• Create financial business cases to support business initiatives.
• Monitor key metrics, drive data quality initiatives across the product area, and help define future needs of the product area.
• Develop and track performance metrics, create presentations, and provide financial analysis on various topics to senior management.
• Perform variance analysis to understand key drivers of results and present commentary to senior managers, explaining changes from prior forecasts/budgets.
• Design new reports and dashboards to efficiently deliver financial results to senior management.
• Enhance controls and streamline processes, introducing automation where possible.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance or a subject of a technical nature
• 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
• Strong 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
• Team player with the ability to be respected as a trusted partner for the Business, Finance, and FP&A Teams

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• 3+ years of work experience, preferably in Financial Services, and/or accounting/controller background
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills with ability to analyze large data sets and present conclusions concisely
• Highly motivated self-starter with excellent time management/prioritization skills