Firmwide Financial Controller Equities Senior Associate
Newark, DE - USA
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Job Summary
Join the Firmwide Financial Control - Equities Team!
As an Senior Associate in The Financial Control function you will primarily focused on ensuring the accuracy integrity and timeliness of the firms books and records with an emphasis on general ledger operating systems and infrastructure controls across the entire lifecycle of the business. Some of the most common functions and activities that are owned by Financial Controllers are MTD PL reconciliations balance sheet reconciliation balance sheet substantiation and GLRS reporting & governance inter-entity control and governance manual accounting / bookings to the GL and operating systems and the month end close process & coordination.
Job Responsibilities:
- Ensure the accuracy and validity of line of business general ledger balance sheet accounts including adherence to the firmwide General Ledger Attestation (GLA) standards
- Ensure adherence to P&L and Balance Sheet controls owned by Financial Control including identifying and implementing opportunities for efficiency
- Analyze communicate and resolve material variances between the general ledger and upstream systems as defined by line of business
- Work closely with various line of business controllers middle office business managers technology and operations
- Understand end-to-end flow of trading activities booking models product configurations and trade economics to apply relative accounting policies and enhance control framework
- Responsible for the integrity and accuracy of line of business income statement and balance sheet at month quarter and year-ends
- Engagement in line of business initiatives and projects be the financial control subject matter expert
- Ability to proactively identify process and/or infrastructure enhancements and work with stakeholders to enact change
- Oversee preparation of the firms primary financial statements at quarter-end for use in the earnings release and Securities Exchange Commission filings
- Control post-closing entries and consolidation adjustments
- Perform various control procedures to ensure the integrity of reported financial results
Required qualifications capabilities and skills:
- Bachelors degree
- Minimum 5 years of related experience; Understanding of financial products
- General Ledger accounting experience
- Experience with financial reporting and month end close responsibilities
- Strong analytical skills: Ability to quickly understand workings of a complex processing system and general ledger systems across the infrastructure and their interrelationships and dependencies
- Excellent desktop/spreadsheet/database skills
- Excellent organizational and problem-solving skills
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to build and maintain partnerships within the various product aligned businesses and across teams in finance other accounting groups ops and tech
- Ability to critically challenge with the goal of identifying control issues
Preferred qualifications capabilities and skills:
- Existing relationships and networks within the firms IB community an advantage
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Key Skills
About Company
JPMorganChase, one of the oldest financial institutions, offers innovative financial solutions to millions of consumers, small businesses and many of the world’s most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients under the J.P. Morgan and Chase brands. Our history spans ov ... View more