Corporate Finance – Financial Information Reporting Solutions – Finance Reporting Infrastructure (FRI) Operations – Associate

Job description

JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) is a leading global financial services firm with assets of $2 trillion and operations in more than 60 countries. The firm is a leader in investment banking, financial services for consumers, small business and commercial banking, financial transaction processing, asset management, and private equity.

Organization & Team Overview:

The Financial Information Reporting Solutions (FIRS) team facilitates the development and execution of business strategy through business management, planning and analysis. The team is focused on implementing cost effective and quality driven staffing models, as well as standardizing and centralizing oversight and control. The FIRS team will help to define and deliver target state operating model and technology requirements to strategically source data required for both internal and external reporting. The team will also assist in positioning the firm to better respond to changing regulatory environments and internal demand requests by deploying change centrally versus de-centrally.

Position Overview:

In the role of Finance Operations Associate on the FRI Operations team, you will be focused on supporting the production processing activities, including reconciliations and data validations. Additionally you will provide support to the business users of the FRI application by supporting and managing client relations, communications, issue resolution, presentations, operating support models, procedures, system access/security as well as process improvements. Interacting with other FIRS and RFT (Risk & Finance Technology) partners as well as escalating issues as needed to the appropriate team(s) and management. Considerable involvement in projects/testing affecting Business Users and FRI application through the full project life cycle (Requirements, Design, SIT testing, UAT testing, Performance testing, Regression testing and Implementation phases) of projects. Provide updates to the project teams on the status of the testing activities. This position requires strong interpersonal and partnership skills. Also, the ability to partner with Risk & Finance Technology, Project Teams and Line of Business Teams in order to manage and execute on established deliverables. The candidate will be required to work with a sense of urgency and be able to balance and prioritize numerous activities. Previous experience in reconciliation, research and data mining is preferred.

Desired profile

·  Candidates should have a bachelor's degree in accounting, finance or related discipline
·  3 plus years relevant work experience
·  Excellent leadership, interpersonal and Project Management skills
·  Strong verbal and written communication skill with the ability to present information at varying levels of detail depending on the audience
·  Enthusiastic, self motivated, effective under pressure
·  Strong work ethic and keen attention to detail and accuracy
·  Thoughtful analytical skills; able to develop, clearly present, and draw conclusions
·  Aptitude and desire to learn quickly, be flexible, and think strategically
·  Ability to handle numerous deliverables concurrently to deliver high quality results in committed timeframes while being able to adapt to changing priorities
·  Client business focused; able to work collaboratively and build strong partnerships with clients and colleagues at all levels
·  Strong organizational, prioritization and analytical skills
·  Dynamic computer skills, including MS Excel, Visio, SQL or other database, Business Intelligence, TOAD, Axiom and JIRA