Corporate Controllers - Financial Controller, Benefits Accounting - Senior Associate

Join JPMorgan’s Corporate Controllers team! JPMorgan Chase's Corporate Controllers is a global organization of about 2,000 colleagues, operating through a partnership among Corporate Accounting Policies, Corporate Regulatory Policy & Reporting and Corporate Financial Reporting, Corporate Sector Accounting, Global Finance Operations, Global Finance India, and Finance Platform Strategy & Controls. Working together, our strengths and resources enable us to ensure the integrity of the JPMorgan Chase consolidated books and records, and the results of individual legal entities within the Firm. We focus on accounting, financial controls, systems, and reporting.

As a Financial Controller - Senior Associate within Corporate Controllers, you will support deferred compensation, life insurance, and other benefits related accounting activities.

Job responsibilities:

• Manage monthly accounting processes, reporting, and analysis for areas supported
• Prepare quarterly and annual regulatory reporting
• Conduct and understand complex accounting projects and transactions
• Develop a detailed understanding of all program-related accounting activity and document policies and procedures for managed areas
• Ensure financial information is fairly presented in accordance with US GAAP and Firm policies
• Provide timely and accurate financial information to management
• Support internal and external audit activities and inquiries with a controls mindset
• Establish and maintain relationships with key stakeholders globally (i.e., local, and regional HR teams, Legal Entity Controllers, Corporate Tax, Corporate Accounting Policies, SEC/Regulatory Reporting teams, Firm actuaries, and various internal/external audit groups, etc.)
• Lead process improvement projects
• Maintain effective communication lines across a global organization

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting required
• 4 years of relevant experience in accounting or finance
• Experience with general ledger bookings and oversight of monthly close processes including balance sheet reconciliation/substantiation, journal entries, and variance analysis; strong US GAAP accounting knowledge, including familiarity with researching independently and collaborating with experts within and external to the Firm on required accounting and disclosure
• Strong analytical and financial skills with a track record of execution against deliverables supporting complex products and processes
• Creative self-starter with strong initiative, ability to take ownership and work independently as well as contribute to the broader team; ability to multi-task and succeed in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
• Excellent oral and written communication skills; comfortable preparing and making oral and written presentations to senior management
• Demonstrated experience with process improvement; familiarity with automation tools and the ability to use them to improve processes
• Advanced Excel skills

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

• Big Four public accounting experience and CPA certification strongly preferred
• Experience working with employee compensation and benefits, especially employee benefit plans, strongly preferred