Legal Entity Controller - UK Statutory Reporting – Associate

J.P. MORGAN; City Of London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A global financial institution is seeking a Legal Entity Controller for its London office. This role involves producing financial statements and liaising with auditors. Qualified accountants with strong analytical and communication skills are encouraged to apply. This position offers exposure to investment and retail banking financial products and requires attention to detail under tight deadlines.

Qualifications

• Qualified accountant with relevant post-qualified experience.
• Ability to work under time pressure with high accuracy.
• Desire to learn challenging accounting concepts.

Responsibilities

• Produce disclosures for UK statutory financial statements.
• Prepare working files for audit with high accuracy.
• Identify enhancements for current processes and controls.

Skills

Qualified accountant

Solid understanding of financial accounting

Excellent communication skills

Strong analytical ability

Education

CA, ACCA, CPA, CIMA

Tools

SAP

Excel

Tableau

Job description

Overview

Join our dynamic Legal Entity Control (LEC) team and play a pivotal role in shaping the financial landscape of a key UK regulated entity. This is an exciting opportunity to be part of Global Finance and Business Management, where your contributions will have a significant impact on our firm\'s success and the wider community.

As a Legal Entity Controller - UK Statutory Reporting – Associate within the Legal Entity Control (LEC) team, you will work with colleagues in London, Mumbai, and Warsaw to ensure a robust control environment for all businesses, products, and operational areas impacting the UK financial statements. This challenging role involves supporting the preparation of statutory financial statements with tight audit and regulatory deadlines, requiring strong time management and attention to detail. Join our meritocratic, team-oriented environment committed to individual and long-term career development.

Responsibilities

• Produce key disclosures contained within the UK statutory financial statements under local GAAP, working closely with the Lines of Business and external audit.
• Prepare working files and support audit papers to a high degree of accuracy and liaison with external auditors on an annual basis.
• Maintain and reconcile our local ledger platform and operating model.
• Support technical UK GAAP/IFRS accounting analysis including accounting memos and new product assessments.
• Identify and drive enhancements to current processes and controls, including assisting in various projects and initiatives which impact the legal entity\'s local accounts.
• Build and maintain relationships across Finance to ensure effective coordination and communication of audit requests and information required for the accounts.
• Support cross entity disclosures & audit tasks for the wider LEC team during the year where required.

Required qualifications, capabilities and skills

• Qualified accountant (i.e. CA, ACCA, CPA, CIMA etc.) with relevant post-qualified experience.
• Solid understanding of investment and retail bank financial accounting and products.
• Ability to work under considerable time pressure, whilst maintaining a high level of accuracy and quality.
• Excellent communication and presentational skills and a track record in developing good working relationships.
• Strong analytical ability, being able to discuss legal entity and business results and issues with senior management and various stakeholders across the Firm.
• A desire to learn and develop an understanding of challenging accounting concepts and new products.
• Attention to detail and a control focused mind-set at all times.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities and skills

• Previous experience of accounts preparation under IFRS preferred.
• Experience of the Firm\'s ledger and consolidation platform (SAP, CDGL and BPC)
• Advanced Excel skills and ideally understanding of process enhancement tools such as Tableau.

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.