
at J.P. Morgan
Bulge Bracket Investment BanksPosted 12 days ago
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**Banking Book Asset Class Control Analyst** in Newark, DE. Combine analytical expertise with tech savvy to bolster financial control processes. Key tasks include ensuring data accuracy/reliability, investigating variances, enhancing control framework, and driving process improvements with tech partners. Collaborate cross-functionally to build strategic data solutions for efficient reporting. Qualify with 0-2 years in finance control, acute analytical skills, and advanced spreadsheet/database proficiency. Preferred: Microsoft Excel, SQL Server, automation/data analytics experience. Foster a robust control culture for accurate, timely financial records.
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Full Job Description
Location: Newark, DE, United States
As a Banking Asset Class Control Analyst within Firmwide Financial Control organization, you will provide subject matter expertise to ensure robust financial control processes, drive process improvements, and partner with senior stakeholders across functions. You will partner with technology to implement scalable, strategic data solution that enhance the control framework and enable consistent, efficient reporting. Additional responsibilities may include balance sheet and profit and loss reconciliations, reporting handoff accountability, manual accounting/bookings to the general ledger, and the month-end close process and coordination.
Job Responsibilities
- Provide subject matter expertise for general ledger and FRW-based controls, ensuring the completeness, accuracy, and consistency of data used for financial and regulatory reporting
- Develop and maintain a strong understanding of end-to-end trade lifecycle flows for loans and deposit products, including key upstream systems, processing points, and control touchpoints
- Identify, investigate, and resolve breaks and material variances across the data supply chain (upstream source systems GL/FRW downstream reporting), escalating themes and driving remediation with stakeholders
- Strengthen control design and execution by defining clear control objectives, inputs/outputs, evidencing standards, and sustainable operating procedures
- Partner with Technology to deliver scalable solutions that strategically source data, improve data lineage, reduce manual interventions, and enhance the overall control framework
- Drive process improvement initiatives to standardize controls, simplify workflows, and improve timeliness and quality of financial/regulatory reporting outputs
- Build strong partnerships with upstream stakeholders (front-to-back product/platform owners, operations, and technology) and downstream reporting teams, influencing outcomes through clear communication and disciplined follow-through
- Support governance and change management by assessing impacts of system/process changes on GL/FRW controls and coordinating implementation, testing, and adoption plans
- Prepare clear, executive-ready control and issue reporting, including root cause analysis, remediation status, and emerging risk themes across loans and deposit products
- Champion a strong control culture, ensuring appropriate risk awareness, documentation discipline, and continuous improvement across the control environment
Required Qualifications, Skills, and Capabilities:
- Bachelors degree required
- 0-2 years of related experience in financial control, accounting, or finance within a large, complex organization
- Strategic thinker with the ability to understand business drivers, anticipate challenges, and deliver innovative solutions to complex problems
- Advanced analytical skills: ability to quickly understand complex processing and general ledger systems, their interrelationships, and dependencies
- Excellent desktop/spreadsheet/database skills
- Superior organizational, problem-solving, verbal, and written communication skills, with the ability to present complex information to senior audiences
- Demonstrated ability to critically challenge the status quo, identify control issues, and drive continuous improvement initiatives
Preferred Qualifications, Skills, and Capabilities:
- Advanced Microsoft Excel
- SQL Server
- Experience with automation and data analytics tools is a plus




