EMEA Finance Controller- Vice president

Next Frontier Capital; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

J.P. Morgan is seeking a finance professional to shape hedging reporting and controls, turning market and accounting detail into executive-ready insights for the balance sheet and risk management.

You will work across interest rates, FX, and fixed income, partnering with Finance, Risk, Operations and Technology. You will prepare monthly and quarterly close deliverables, support regulatory reporting, and drive automation with senior stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, mathematics, or another numerate discipline.
• Solid grounding in financial accounting and finance, including derivative and hedge accounting concepts.
• Experience in financial control, product control, or financial reporting within financial services.

Responsibilities

• Prepare and review monthly and quarterly close deliverables and support applicable regulatory reporting, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and timeliness.
• Maintain and enhance procedures and controls over hedging activity reporting, including audit testing support, evidence provision, and remediation tracking.
• Apply derivative accounting and reporting policies consistently and escalate issues and exceptions in a timely manner.
• Analyze firmwide foreign exchange exposures, including forecasted revenues and expenses and non USD investments in subsidiaries.
• Draft clear hedge instructions for portfolio managers in line with established hedging frameworks.
• Explain hedge profit and loss drivers, including foreign exchange and rates impacts, and deliver management-ready commentary.
• Build and maintain senior-management analytics and management information packs, including variance and driver-based analysis.
• Identify process simplification opportunities and implement control and efficiency improvements with the team.
• Partner with Technology to deliver reporting requirements, resolve data issues, and support new hedging programs and reporting frameworks.
• Adopt automation and JPMorganChase-approved artificial intelligence tooling to accelerate commentary, standardize packs, and reduce manual reconciliations with auditability.
• Build relationships with controllers, planning and analysis partners, chief financial officers, treasurers, and regional teams to support global hedging programs

Skills

Advanced Excel

Data automation

Executive commentary

Stakeholder management

Time management

Cross-functional collaboration

Financial reporting

Education

Bachelor’s degree in finance/accounting/mathematics

Professional qualification (CIMA/ACCA/CA/CFA)

Tools

Alteryx

Job description

Bring clarity to complex hedging activity that helps manage the firm’s balance sheet and risk. In this role, you will turn market and accounting detail into reporting leaders can trust and act on. You will work with diverse products across interest rates, foreign exchange, and fixed income while partnering closely with stakeholders across Finance, Risk, Operations, and Technology.

Job responsibilities

• Prepare and review monthly and quarterly close deliverables and support applicable regulatory reporting, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and timeliness
• Maintain and enhance procedures and controls over hedging activity reporting, including audit testing support, evidence provision, and remediation tracking
• Apply derivative accounting and reporting policies consistently and **escalate** issues and exceptions in a timely manner
• Analyze firmwide foreign exchange exposures, including forecasted revenues and expenses and non USD investments in subsidiaries
• Draft clear hedge instructions for portfolio managers in line with established hedging frameworks
• Explain hedge profit and loss drivers, including foreign exchange and rates impacts, and deliver management-ready commentary
• Build and maintain senior-management analytics and management information packs, including variance and driver-based analysis
• Identify process simplification opportunities and implement control and efficiency improvements with the team
• Partner with Technology to deliver reporting requirements, resolve data issues, and support new hedging programs and reporting frameworks
• Adopt automation and JPMorganChase-approved artificial intelligence tooling to accelerate commentary, standardize packs, and reduce manual reconciliations with auditability

• Build relationships with controllers, planning and analysis partners, chief financial officers, treasurers, and regional teams to support global hedging programs

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, mathematics, or another numerate discipline

• Solid years of experience in financial control, product control, or financial reporting within financial services
• Working knowledge of interest rate swaps, foreign exchange swaps, forwards, cross-currency swaps, fixed income instruments, and long-term debt
• Solid grounding in financial accounting and finance, including interest in derivative and hedge accounting concepts
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills (including complex formulas)
• Experience using data automation and reporting tools (for example, Alteryx or similar)
• Ability to synthesize complex topics into clear, executive-ready written commentary and verbal updates
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple deadlines and recurring deliverables
• Strong stakeholder management skills across Finance, Risk, Operations, and Technology
• Ability to run individual workstreams with minimal supervision while partnering effectively with a broader team

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Professional qualification (for example, Chartered Institute of Management Accountants, Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, Institute of Chartered Accountants, Chartered Financial Analyst, or equivalent)
• Direct experience supporting hedge accounting and/or derivative accounting policy implementation
• Experience supporting regulatory reporting deliverables related to hedging or treasury activity
• Proven track record delivering reporting enhancements or change initiatives with Technology partners
• Experience implementing well-governed automation or artificial intelligence-enabled workflows in a finance control environment

• Strong presentation skills with experience presenting to senior management

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.

Our professionals in our Corporate Functions cover a diverse range of areas from finance and risk to human resources and marketing. Our corporate teams are an essential part of our company, ensuring that we’re setting our businesses, clients, customers and employees up for success.

Global Finance & Business Management works to strategically manage capital, drive growth and efficiencies, maintain financial reporting and proactively manage risk. By providing information, analysis and recommendations to improve results and drive decisions, teams ensure the company can navigate all types of market conditions while protecting our fortress balance sheet.

Shape hedging reporting and controls and deliver insight that guides senior finance and investment decisions.