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**Financial Controller, Associate** at JPMorgan Chase. Ensure accurate, integral book and record maintenance, emphasizing general ledger, operating systems, and control environment across business lifecycles. Key responsibilities include balance sheet reconciliation, month-end close coordination, manual accounting, GLRS reporting, inter-entity control oversight, and process improvement. Manage relationships across businesses and functions, influence partners, and build solutions for business issues. Requires B.A. in Accounting with 2+ years in financial control, strong product understanding, and analytical skills. Mid to senior-level candidate with a CPA beneficial. Ohio-based role with stringent immigration requirements.

Compensation: Not specified USD
City: Not specified
Country: United States

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Location: OH, United States

JPMorganChase's Financial Control team plays a critical role in safeguarding the integrity of the Firm's financial infrastructure across every line of business. This is an opportunity to join a high-impact team where your analytical rigor and accounting expertise will directly support the control environment that underpins the Firm's operations. If you thrive in fast-paced environments and enjoy solving complex problems across interconnected systems, this role is for you.

As a Financial Controller Associate on the Financial Control team, you are 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 balance sheet reconciliation / certification, balance sheet substantiation and GLRS reporting and governance, inter-entity control & governance, manual accounting / bookings to the GL, and operating systems and the month end close process and coordination.

Job Responsibilities:

Perform balance sheet reconciliation, certification, and substantiation activities to ensure accuracy of the Firm's financial records

Execute month-end close processes and coordinate across teams to ensure timely and complete reporting

Manage manual accounting entries and bookings to the general ledger with precision and appropriate documentation

Oversee GLRS reporting and governance activities, ensuring compliance with internal standards

Monitor inter-entity controls and governance frameworks to identify and remediate discrepancies

Critically challenge existing processes and workflows with the goal of identifying and escalating control issues

Liaise with business and risk managers to communicate financial control matters and resolve inquiries

Build and maintain partnerships across product-aligned businesses, corporate financial, treasury, and accounting groups

Analyze complex processing systems and general ledger infrastructure to understand interrelationships and dependencies

Influence middle and front office partners to deliver solutions to business issues and operational problems

Develop and maintain spreadsheets, databases, and reporting tools to support financial control activities

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills

Bachelors degree in Accounting with 2+ years of related experience in financial control or accounting

Strong understanding of securities and derivatives products; Able to critically challenge with the goal of identifying control issues; General Ledger, financial reporting and month end close responsibilities experience

Comfortable liaising with business and risk managers; relationships and networks within the firm's IB community

Able to build and maintain partnerships within the various product aligned businesses and across other corporate financial, treasury, and accounting groups and able to understand business drivers and requirements and influence middle and front office partners to deliver solutions to business issues and problems

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; able to multi-task in a constantly changing environment, and excellent verbal and written communication skills

Able to multi-task in a constantly changing environment and able to critically challenge with the goal of identifying control issues

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

CPA license beneficial in some FFAR roles, but not required
Knowledge of other financial reporting systems beneficial

Candidates must be able to physically work in our Columbus, OH office 5 days a week.

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).

Ensure accuracy, integrity, and timeliness of the firm's books and records as an associate on the financial control team.

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