Lead Expert in Global Insurance Accounting Servicing Executive Director

Join our Global Client Onboarding team in EMEA for an exciting opportunity to lead the project management of endtoend implementations for new institutional client mandates and lifecycle events on advanced investment accounting platforms. Our team collaborates crossfunctionally with clients senior representatives from investment desks product development client account management compliance risk and control functions as well as subject matter experts in investment operations technology and thirdparty vendors.

As a Lead Expert in Global Insurance Accounting & Servicing Executive Director in our Global Client Onboarding team you will provide a comprehensive understanding of investment accounting and regulatory reporting needs across diverse asset types. You will have the opportunity to use your strong accounting and financial reporting skills developed through relevant university studies and demonstrate your ability to collaborate across multiple business lines with a solid clients come first mentality. You will be able to work independently across multiple geographies and have a general understanding of common regulatory reporting pronouncements rules and disclosures. In this role you will play a crucial part in developing new client relationships and supporting existing business while enhancing what J.P. Morgan Asset Management can offer clients. You will enjoy crafting investment solutions using best practices and creating client presentations to clearly communicate proposed solutions. As you deepen your understanding of the product offering we serve this role will naturally create opportunities to present to internal stakeholders clients and prospects in a highly promoten sales environment while continuing education on the everchanging landscape of multiple regulatory agencies and their reporting needs.

Job responsibilities

• Ensure JPMs infrastructure is properly set up to support evolving client and prospect needs globally for a wide variety of asset types including accounting and regulatory reporting compliance.
• Serve as a functional subject matter expert demonstrating a high degree of independent decisionmaking autonomy and sound judgment.
• Manage the project of new account onboardings for institutional and strategic client mandates.
• Act as the point of contact with and for the client during the endtoend onboarding process and service future client needs.
• Liaise with other parts of the organization including operations client account management client reporting portfolio management vendor management and sales teams.
• Support key audit initiatives with consistent documentation withinJ.P. Morgan Asset Management.
• Form global relationships quickly and develop a key network of contacts to source information both internally and externally.
• Initiate projects independently across a broad constituency to effect and evolve change.
• Support and research various new regulatory investment accounting and reportingrelated pronouncements.
• Apply local GAAP STAT IFRS and other regulatory accounting treatments to complex investment accounting transactions and demonstrate an understanding of key implications. Work with clients to explain how such treatment impacts their income statement and/or balance sheet.
• Support the global client onboarding teams to develop best practice standards and consistency and identify ways to improve processes/procedures to enhance the client experience.

Required qualifications capabilities and skills

• Extensive handson experience in accounting within an insurance company or insurancerelated support organizations.
• An undergraduate degree in finance or accounting or relevant work experience that demonstrates the appropriate skills.
• Several years experience working with multiple investment types and/or regulatory reporting and filings.
• The ability to work effectively under tight deadlines.
• Knowledge of regulatory frameworks such as the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Bermuda Monetary Authority (BMA) and Solvency II along with their respective reporting requirements.

Preferred qualifications capabilities and skills

• Knowledge of multiple asset classifications and types including derivatives fixed income loanbacked and structured securities private equity bank loans and limited partnerships.
• Experience in accounting or financial reporting roles within insurance (Life and/or P&C) or financial services companies that service insurance companies.
• Experience with and knowledge of the Clearwater Analytics platform.
• Strong written communication skills including the ability to prepare highquality presentation materials for clients.
• Ability to articulate complex investment strategies and processes clearly and concisely with comfort in interacting with clients during meetings and over the phone.
• Solid knowledge of balance sheet and income statement components.