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**Program Management - Firmwide Financial Control (Senior Associate)** - Drive global securities accounting transformation: Collaborate with multinational stakeholders, document U.S. GAAP & regional accounting standards for debt instruments, and ensure solutions align to finance principles. - Key Responsibilities: Partner with stakeholders, document complex requirements, analyze data, and manage testing activities. Contribute to multi-year platform development, with regional focuses on LATAM, EMEA, and APAC. - Required Skills: 3+ years of finance or accounting experience, debt instruments accounting expertise, strong analytical and problem-solving skills, and proficiency in MS Excel, PowerPoint, and Word. Additional regions and system experience preferred.

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Country: United States

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Location: Newark, DE, United States

Help modernize how securities transactions are accounted for and controlled across a global platform. You will work with finance, technology, operations, and accounting policy partners to design solutions that improve accuracy, transparency, and scalability. This role offers broad exposure to complex fixed income products, multiregion requirements, and large transformation programs. If you enjoy solving ambiguous problems and translating accounting needs into buildable solutions, youll thrive here.

Job summary

As a Senior Associate within the Strategic Finance Program Management team, you will partner with stakeholders across regions to deliver accounting architecture change from requirements through testing and readiness. You will document accounting requirements for debt instruments under U.S. GAAP and applicable local accounting standards, and translate those requirements into clear deliverables for technology and operations teams. You will contribute to a multiyear initiative to build an inhouse securities processing platform, with initial focus on Latin America, Europe/Middle East/Africa, and Asia Pacific. You will help strengthen the control environment and ensure solutions align to established finance principles.

Job responsibilities

Partner with finance, operations, and accounting policy stakeholders to define and document detailed accounting requirements and calculations for debt instruments

Analyze data and endtoend processes to identify gaps, root causes, and actionable solutions

Translate business and accounting requirements into functional documentation and testable outcomes

Collaborate with technology teams throughout analysis, build, defect triage, and delivery milestones

Write, execute, and document user acceptance testing test cases and results

Participate in endtoend testing, production parallel testing, and conversion testing to support implementation readiness

Design, assess, and improve controls to support a strong control environment across the new infrastructure

Ensure proposed solutions align with established finance principles and key design rules

Maintain project governance artifacts, including trackers, project plans, and working group documentation

Communicate progress, risks, and decisions clearly to senior and crossfunctional stakeholders

Support a portfolio of initiatives ranging from production remediation to large, multiyear transformation programs

Required qualifications, capabilities and skills

Minimum of 3 years of finance or accounting experience

Working knowledge of accounting for debt instruments under U.S. GAAP and applicable local accounting standards

Experience producing clear requirements documentation and performing functional analysis

Strong analytical and problemsolving skills, including structured root cause analysis

Ability to communicate complex topics clearly in writing and in presentations

Strong collaboration and relationshipbuilding skills across functions and regions

Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fastpaced, changing environment

High attention to detail and a strong quality mindset

Experience supporting testing activities (for example, user acceptance testing)

Proficiency in Microsoft Excel (pivot tables, lookups, and functions) and Microsoft PowerPoint and Word

Preferred qualifications, capabilities and skills

Fixed income securities accounting experience

Experience with finance data and ledger/reporting processes (for example, management reporting and general ledger)

Familiarity with SAP S/4HANA general ledger environments

Experience supporting large system replacements or multiyear platform builds

Prior experience in requirements analysis for finance transformation initiatives

Conversational or fluent Spanish or Portuguese

Experience working across Latin America, Europe/Middle East/Africa, and Asia Pacific stakeholder groups

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).

Lead accounting change for a global securities processing platform through analysis, testing, and controls.

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