Finance Controller Associate

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase & Co. is seeking an Associate in the Legal Entity Control team to oversee monthly accounting and control for the legal entity, ensuring accuracy and regulatory readiness.

You'll interact with line-of-business finance teams, operations, and the Legal Entity Controller community to drive the entity's agenda. Responsibilities include month-end close, intercompany accounting, GL monitoring, and contributing to regulatory reporting, with opportunities to lead process improvements and

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance or related business field.
• 3+ years finance/accounting experience.
• Strong accounting and analytical acumen with ability to explain income statement and balance sheet variances.
• Outstanding written and verbal communication with ability to prepare executive presentations.
• Advanced Excel and PowerPoint skills.
• CPA is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Perform Legal Entity accounting & control monthly, including month-end close, parent/child accounting, equity pickup, inter-entity break review.
• Prepare Monthly Controller’s Book and regulatory reporting commentary.
• Investigate issues and respond to ad-hoc queries.
• Assist in Booking Model review and ongoing Legal Entity Control compliance.
• Control intercompany activity and provide variance commentary.
• Monitor the general ledger, consolidation and netting.
• Participate in firmwide legal entity reporting projects and process improvements.

Skills

Financial analysis

Advanced Excel

PowerPoint skills

Communication skills

Intercompany accounting

Month-end close

Education

Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance or related field

Tools

Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

Join a collaborative finance control team that is responsible for financial oversight of their legal entity and is tasked with ensuring that a strong control environment exists as it relates to all businesses, products and operational areas that impact the Legal Entity financials and regulatory reporting of the firm

As an Associate within the Legal Entity Control team, you will provide an opportunity to interact with multiple lines of business and internal stakeholders while learning legal entity controllership end-to-end. The Associate will liaise with the line of business finance teams, operations, and the Legal Entity Controller community to drive the Legal Entity agenda.

Job responsibilities:

• Perform Legal Entity accounting & control on a monthly basis, including month-end close process, parent/child accounting, equity pick up, review of inter-entity breaks, and unnatural general ledger balance monitoring
• Conduct Month-End analytical review of the legal entity to ensure completeness and accuracy of the financial statements and preparation of various reports, including contributions to the Monthly Controller’s Book, as well as Legal Entity and line of business financial commentary and regulatory reporting requirements
• Investigate, analyze and resolve issues and response to ad-hoc queries
• Assist in the Booking Model review and on-going Legal Entity Control Standard compliance monitoring
• Control Intercompany Activity including variance commentary
• Monitor the G/L including consolidation and netting
• Participate in Firmwide legal entity reporting projects including infrastructure and process improvement efforts and other Controller initiatives as needed

Required qualifications, capabilities and skills:

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance or related business field
• 3+ years finance/accounting – related experience
• Strong accounting and analytical acumen, with ability to understand, produce and explain income statement and balance sheet content and variances
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills, including an ability to prepare executive level presentations
• Ability to work effectively with others, as well as act as an effective liaison with all business partners within the lines of business or legal entity chains
• Strong initiative and work ethic, superior attention to detail, ability to multi-task and work well under pressure, with an ability to be flexible in a dynamic and challenging environment
• Advanced Excel and PowerPoint skills required

Preferred qualifications, capabilities and skills:

• CPA is a plus