Asset Management- Product Administration - Fund Controller - Senior Associate
JPMorganChase
Join JPMorgan Asset Management’s Product Administration team to help safeguard the quality and integrity of our UK fund range. You’ll work with senior stakeholders and external administrators to ensure accurate NAVs, robust controls, and high-quality financial and regulatory reporting. This role offers broad exposure across fund lifecycle events and meaningful opportunities to drive automation and process improvement.
As a Senior Associate within the Product Administration – Fund Controller team, you oversee end-to-end fund administration service delivery for the UK fund range, ensuring NAV accuracy, strong controls, and timely reporting. You manage key fund lifecycle activities and coordinate across internal teams, boards, and external service providers to maintain high operational standards. You identify, escalate, and remediate risks, errors, and incidents while contributing to process improvement and transformation initiatives.
Job Responsibilities
- Monitor external fund administrator delivery, ensuring NAV accuracy, price publication, and effective NAV error remediation.
- Review daily market events to assess fair valuation implications for assets and markets.
- Manage fund lifecycle events including fee billing, swing pricing, calendars, launches, and liquidations.
- Oversee statutory and regulatory reporting deliverables including AIC reporting, portfolio disclosures, and AIFMD reporting.
- Prepare internal MIS and management reporting for governance and senior stakeholders.
- Review fund expenses, invoices, and payment processing to ensure accuracy and appropriate controls.
- Validate financial reporting outputs, forecasting, and disclosure controls while supporting audit queries.
- Monitor legal publication requirements for prices, prospectuses, and notices and ensure timely distribution.
- Manage vendor relationships and governance routines across administrators, trustees, depositaries, and custodians.
- Escalate errors and incidents appropriately, driving root-cause remediation and control enhancements.
- Deliver month-end and quarter-end reporting across internal and external stakeholders.
Required qualifications, capabilities and skills
- Demonstrate 8+ years of experience in Fund Administration or Asset Management with focus on fund accounting and financial reporting.
- Apply strong knowledge of investment fund structures including collective investment schemes and investment trusts.
- Demonstrate expertise in Lux requirements, UK GAAP, and IFRS financial reporting frameworks.
- Explain fund products, accounting principles, and the regulatory framework relevant to the EMEA fund range.
- Use MS Office tools effectively, including advanced proficiency in Excel and strong PowerPoint skills.
- Collaborate effectively within a cross-functional, global operating model with strong stakeholder management.
- Communicate clearly and confidently in written, verbal, and presentation formats to governance bodies and senior management.
Preferred qualifications, capabilities and skills
- Leverage VBA, Alteryx, Python, or other automation tools to improve controls and reporting efficiency.
- Utilize LLM-enabled solutions to streamline analysis, documentation, or operational workflows where appropriate.
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives across fund oversight, controls, and governance processes.
- Prioritize multiple deliverables effectively with strong ownership and attention to detail.
- Build strong working relationships with transfer agency, fund accounting, trustee/depositary, and custody partners.
- Assess operational risk and control gaps proactively across complex fund ranges and share class structures.
- Influence service providers and internal partners through data-driven insights and clear escalation management.
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 over 200 years and today we are a leader in investment banking, consumer and small business banking, commercial banking, financial transaction processing and asset management.
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J.P. Morgan Asset & Wealth Management delivers industry-leading investment management and private banking solutions. Asset Management provides individuals, advisors and institutions with strategies and expertise that span the full spectrum of asset classes through our global network of investment professionals. Wealth Management helps individuals, families and foundations take a more intentional approach to their wealth or finances to better define, focus and realize their goals.
Oversee UK fund administration, NAV controls, reporting, and vendor governance within EMEA Product Administration.