EMEA Finance Controller- Vice president

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Greater London; On-site; GBP 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase & Co. in London seeks a VP Finance Controller to oversee hedging activity reporting, ensuring accurate accounting and robust management information.

You will collaborate with Front Office, Finance, Risk, Operations and Technology to strengthen governance, data quality and automation. You will lead a team to deliver month-end closes, regulatory reporting, and commentary, while driving process improvements and scalable controls across global hedging programs.

Qualifications

• 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 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

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

Financial control

Financial reporting

Stakeholder management

Excel

Data automation

Analytical thinking

Communication

Project management

Education

Finance/Accounting degree

Tools

Alteryx

Excel

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.

As a EMEA Finance Controller Vice President within Treasury and Chief Investment Office Controller Team ( T/CIO) you support oversight, financial reporting, and analysis of hedging activity. You help ensure derivative accounting and reporting policies are applied consistently, and you deliver accurate close and management information. You partner with front office, finance stakeholders, and technology to improve data, controls, and reporting frameworks. You contribute to a culture where we strengthen governance while using automation and approved artificial intelligence capabilities to reduce manual effort and improve transparency.

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