External Reporting Senior Associate

Job Description

Join our dynamic External Reporting team as a Senior Associate controller, and play a pivotal role in our line of business results, feeding into firmwide reporting. 

As an External Reporting Senior Associate within the Commercial & Investment Bank team, you will have the chance to cooperate and work across various business lines and corporate stakeholders in support of the Commercial & Investment Bank's reported figures. Your role demands strong attention to detail, communication, and influence across these stakeholders, during tight deadlines for external reporting. Moreover, this role provides high visibility to senior stakeholders in the Commercial & Investment Bank and Corporate functions, with your analysis playing a crucial role in steering communications.

Job responsibilities:

• Apply up-to-date product/industry/market knowledge in specialty areas of reporting
• Consolidate, review, and analyze quarterly financial data for accuracy and completeness including articulation of variance analysis in tight timeframe of external reporting calendar.
• Coordinate data collection and quarterly business results with various lines of business, Regulatory Controllers, and SEC reporting teams
• Assist in the thorough assessment of issues and outcomes
• Clearly communicate financial information to the lines of businesses and able to flag potential issues
• Adhere to control procedures to ensure accurate reconciliation between regulatory filings, SEC filings and other published financial reports (e.g., Earnings, Form 10-Q, Annual Report/Form 10-K, Call Report & FR Y-9C, Pillar III, etc)
• Ensure accurate and complete data submission to Regulators
• Interpret and define regulatory and/or SEC requirements and coordinate internal and external policies
• Establish and manage relationships with the line of business, corporate functions, as well as with external regulatory agency constituents through ongoing partnership and dialogue
• Participate in continuous improvement efforts around data quality review and external reporting improvement projects

Required qualifications, skills, and capabilities:

• Work experience with exposure to accounting, financial statements, and/or regulatory reporting
• Strong skills in time management, problem solving, written and oral communication
• Team player, with ability to lead effectively across diverse functions, locations, and businesses while seeing items to their conclusion
• Excellent Excel, power-point and ability to create/drive efficiencies 
• Strong analytical skills
• Extremely strong organizational and time management skills

Preferred qualifications, skills, and capabilities: 

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance
• Experience in External Reporting, Product Control, or Financial Control
• Project management experience/skills 
• ACCA / CA or CFA qualifications would be a plus
• Experience pf SEC reporting or Regulatory Reporting

About Us

J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world’s most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals and institutional investors. Our first-class business in a first-class way approach to serving clients drives everything we do. We strive to build trusted, long-term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives.

We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants’ and employees’ religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our  FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.

About the Team

J.P. Morgan’s Commercial & Investment Bank is a global leader across banking, markets, securities services and payments. Corporations, governments and institutions throughout the world entrust us with their business in more than 100 countries. The Commercial & Investment Bank provides strategic advice, raises capital, manages risk and extends liquidity in markets around the world.