Bulge Bracket Investment Banks

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**Associate, Legal Entity Controller** in Newark, DE. You'll oversee accounting, controls, and reporting for the firm's parent and intermediate holding companies, ensuring timely, accurate financial results. Duties include monthly close activities, variance analysis, external reporting, and regulatory filings. Requires a bachelor's in Accounting/Finance, strong analytical skills, and CPA/CFA certification preferred. Drive process improvements in this dynamic finance role.

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Country: United States

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Location: Newark, DE, United States

Build your career in a controllership team that helps ensure accurate, timely financial reporting for the firms parent and intermediate holding companies. You will partner closely with finance teams across the organization to strengthen controls, improve processes, and deliver highquality insights for senior stakeholders. This role offers broad exposure to corporate accounting, legal entity governance, and regulatory and external reporting. If you enjoy solving complex problems and improving how work gets done, youll thrive here.

Job summary

As an Associate in the Legal Entity Controller team, you will help oversee accounting, controls, and reporting for the firms parent company and intermediate holding company. You will support monthly close activities, analyze financial results, and help ensure intercompany activity is complete, accurate, and wellcontrolled. You will contribute to quarterly and annual external reporting deliverables and holding company regulatory reporting. You will work in a collaborative environment where strong judgment, attention to detail, and clear communication are essential.

Job responsibilities

Perform monthly legal entity close activities, including parent/subsidiary accounting and equity method accounting

Review intercompany balances and breaks, investigate variances, and drive timely resolution with partners

Monitor general ledger balances for unusual activity and support control-focused remediation as needed

Prepare monthly analytical reviews to validate completeness and accuracy of legal entity financial statements

Produce recurring management and reporting packages, including variance commentary and key drivers

Support quarterly and annual external reporting deliverables, including required disclosures and supporting schedules

Contribute to holding company regulatory reporting through data preparation, review, and documentation

Investigate, analyze, and resolve issues; respond to ad hoc requests with clear, well-supported conclusions

Partner with line-of-business finance teams and the broader controllership community to align on priorities and deliverables

Participate in firmwide legal entity reporting initiatives, including process and infrastructure improvements

Help maintain a strong control environment through documentation, controls execution, and continuous improvement

Required qualifications, capabilities and skills

Bachelors degree in Accounting and/or Finance

Strong accounting and analytical skills, with the ability to explain income statement and balance sheet movements

Demonstrated attention to detail and commitment to producing accurate, well-controlled work

Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to summarize complex topics clearly

Proven ability to collaborate effectively across teams and influence outcomes with stakeholders

Strong initiative, ownership mindset, and ability to manage multiple deadlines in a dynamic environment

Proficiency in Microsoft Excel (advanced) and PowerPoint

Experience with month-end close, account reconciliations, and financial analysis

Preferred qualifications, capabilities and skills

Certified Public Accountant (CPA) or equivalent qualification (or progress toward certification)

Experience supporting legal entity accounting, intercompany accounting, or corporate controllership functions

Familiarity with external reporting processes (quarterly/annual reports) and related controls

Exposure to holding company regulatory reporting and governance expectations

Experience driving process improvements, automation, or control enhancements in finance

Experience working in a large, complex financial services organization

Ability to create clear, executive-ready materials (narrative + visuals) for senior stakeholders

To be eligible for this role, you must be authorized to work in the United States. We do not offer any type of employment-based immigration sponsorship for this role. Likewise, JPMorgan Chase & Co. will not provide any assistance or sign any documentation in support of any other form of immigration sponsorship or benefit, including optional practical training (OPT) or curricular practical training (CPT).

Support month-end close, intercompany controls, and capital monitoring for the parent and intermediate holding company.

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