Finance & Business Management - Senior Associate

JPMorganChase; Columbus (OH); On-site; USD 70,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorganChase in the United States seeks a Senior Associate, Finance Analyst in Business Banking Lending Finance who translates lending performance into executive-ready insights. You will combine management reporting, dashboards, and financial analysis to explain results and guide decisions.

You will partner across product, risk, strategy, and operations to connect financial results to real business activity, helping leaders understand what happened, why it happened, and what to do next.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in finance, business analytics, or related analytical roles.
• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related field.
• Ability to perform root-cause analysis and relate financial outcomes to business activity.
• Experience creating management reporting, dashboards, or executive materials for senior stakeholders.
• Strong analytical judgment, curiosity, and data-driven decision making.
• Proactive, self-directed with a track record of implementing improvements.

Responsibilities

• Lead and enhance management reporting and dashboards for leadership visibility into results and metrics.
• Analyze monthly and quarterly variances across originations, balances, pricing, credit, expenses and profitability.
• Develop executive-ready commentary and recommendations summarizing messages and actions.
• Collaborate with Product, Strategy, Risk, and Operations to validate conclusions and context.
• Deliver ad hoc analyses on profitability, portfolio behavior, pricing impacts, and forecast risks.
• Automate recurring reporting, standardize metrics, strengthen controls, and improve data quality.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Communication skills

Attention to detail

Education

Bachelor's degree in Finance or related field

Tools

Tableau

Alteryx

SQL

Python

Excel

Databricks

Snowflake

Job description

Job Description

Turn complex lending performance into clear, decisive stories that influence leadership action. You will build trusted reporting and insights that help leaders understand what happened, why it happened, and what to do next. You will partner across product, risk, strategy, and operations to connect financial results to real business activity. Join us to modernize reporting and elevate decision-making across lending finance.

Job Description

Turn complex lending performance into clear, decisive stories that influence leadership action. You will build trusted reporting and insights that help leaders understand what happened, why it happened, and what to do next. You will partner across product, risk, strategy, and operations to connect financial results to real business activity. Join us to modernize reporting and elevate decision-making across lending finance.

Job Summary

As a Senior Associate, Finance Analyst in Business Banking Lending Finance, you translate lending performance into executive-ready insights that help us make better decisions. You will combine management reporting, dashboard design, and financial analysis to explain results and identify actions our leaders can take. You will work in a collaborative, high-visibility environment where curiosity, strong judgment, and attention to detail matter. You will help us improve how we measure performance by strengthening definitions, controls, and data quality while reducing manual work through automation.

Job responsibilities

• Lead and enhance management reporting and dashboards that provide clear visibility into results, trends, and key metrics for finance and business leadership
• Analyze monthly and quarterly variances across originations, balances, pricing, credit, expenses, profitability, and portfolio trends to identify root causes and emerging themes
• Develop executive-ready commentary and recommendations that summarize the key message, financial implications, and potential next steps
• Partner with Product, Strategy, Risk, and Operations teams to validate conclusions, understand context, and pressure-test explanations
• Deliver ad hoc strategic analyses on profitability, portfolio behavior, pricing impacts, credit strategy changes, forecast risks, and emerging business issues
• Improve reporting processes by automating recurring work, standardizing metrics, strengthening controls, improving data quality, and documenting key definitions and procedures

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, And Skills

• At least 5 years of experience in finance, business analytics, management reporting, financial planning and analysis, pricing analytics, portfolio analytics, or a related analytical role
• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business Analytics, Data Science, Statistics, or a related quantitative field
• Demonstrated ability to perform root-cause analysis, connect financial outcomes to underlying business activity, and explain decision implications
• Experience creating management reporting, dashboards, business reviews, or executive materials for senior stakeholders
• Strong analytical judgment and business curiosity, with the ability to challenge surface-level explanations using data
• Enthusiastic, self-directed, energetic, and personally motivated, with the ability to take ownership and execute improvements with limited direction
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel
• Experience with reporting and visualization tools (for example, Alteryx or Tableau)
• Working knowledge of data querying tools, such as Structured Query Language (SQL)
• Strong attention to detail and control mindset, including the ability to identify anomalies before results are shared with senior stakeholders
• Strong communication, organization, and stakeholder management skills

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities And Skills

• Experience supporting lending, credit card, small business banking, commercial banking, consumer banking, or another financial services business
• Familiarity with lending economics, including originations, balances, utilization, yield, fee income, credit losses, expenses, capital, profitability, or return metrics
• Experience supporting CFO organizations, pricing teams, risk strategy, portfolio management, product strategy, or business performance teams
• Experience analyzing the financial impact of pricing actions, credit strategy changes, customer behavior, portfolio mix, or product changes
• Working knowledge of Python or modern data platforms (for example, Databricks or Snowflake)
• Exposure to analytics automation, dashboard automation, workflow automation, or reporting modernization

ABOUT US

Chase is a leading financial services firm, helping nearly half of America's households and small businesses achieve their financial goals through a broad range of financial products. Our mission is to create engaged, lifelong relationships and put our customers at the heart of everything we do. We also help small businesses, nonprofits and cities grow, delivering solutions to solve all their financial needs.

We offer a competitive total rewards package including base salary determined based on the role, experience, skill set and location. Those in eligible roles may receive commission-based pay and/or discretionary incentive compensation, paid in the form of cash and/or forfeitable equity, awarded in recognition of individual achievements and contributions. We also offer a range of benefits and programs to meet employee needs, based on eligibility. These benefits include comprehensive health care coverage, on-site health and wellness centers, a retirement savings plan, backup childcare, tuition reimbursement, mental health support, financial coaching and more. Additional details about total compensation and benefits will be provided during the hiring process.

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.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Disability/Veterans

About The Team

Our Consumer & Community Banking division serves our Chase customers through a range of financial services, including personal banking, credit cards, mortgages, auto financing, investment advice, small business loans and payment processing. We're proud to lead the U.S. in credit card sales and deposit growth and have the most-used digital solutions & all while ranking first in customer satisfaction.

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.