Program Management - Fixed Income Accounting - Associate

JPMorganChase; Newark (DE); On-site; USD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorganChase is looking for a Senior Associate in Newark, Delaware, to join the Strategic Accounting Infrastructure and Control Team. This role involves working on financial accounting architecture changes, supporting multiple stakeholders to ensure project objectives are delivered. Responsibilities include liaising with stakeholders, performing data analyses, writing test cases, and maintaining project documentation. Ideal candidates should have a minimum of 3 years of finance or accounting experience, strong analytical skills, and proficiency in MS Excel.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 3 years finance or accounting experience, fixed income securities accounting experience preferred.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and adapt to changing needs.
• Strong organizational skills, including the ability to prioritize multiple activities.

Responsibilities

• Liaise with stakeholders to document detailed accounting requirements.
• Perform data and process analyses and present findings.
• Write and execute UAT test cases.

Skills

Finance or accounting experience

Detail oriented

Analytical and problem-solving skills

Communication skills

Interpersonal skills

Tools

MS Excel

PowerPoint

Word

Job description

Job Description

Join the Strategic Accounting Infrastructure and Control (SAIC) Team that is responsible for the analysis and execution of financial accounting architecture changes, supporting Financial Control, Asset Class Control, and Product Control.

As an Associate on the Strategic Finance Program Management group within SAIC team, you will partner with various stakeholders across multiple regions to deliver project objectives throughout multiple phases including requirements documentation, functional analysis, and testing. You will have opportunities to leverage your product knowledge, problem solving ability, and accounting expertise to participate in meaningful discussion with partners from finance, tech, ops to solve complex business issues and build a strategic accounting infrastructure for securities processing.

The projects range from production remediation's and industry/line of business (LOB) initiatives to large-scale, multi-year strategic initiatives to replace entire product systems. We are looking for a Senior Associate to support the multi-year strategic build out of our in-house Securities Processing Platform, initially focusing on the LATAM region.

Job Responsibilities

• Liaise with various stakeholders (Finance, Ops, Corporate Accounting Policy) across the firm to define and document detailed accounting requirements including accounting calculations, when applicable, for debt instruments according to US and local GAAP.
• Perform data & process analyses and present findings to key stakeholders.
• Partner with Technology throughout analysis and testing.
• Write and execute UAT test cases; participate in E2E, production parallel and conversion testing.
• Analyze controls to ensure the strategic infrastructure operates within a solid control environment, including identifying any opportunities for process and control improvements; make certain the design meets Finance Principles and Big Rules established.
• Produce & maintain working group tracker, project plan and other project documents as required.

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, And Skills

• Minimum of 3 years finance or accounting experience, fixed income securities accounting experience preferred.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment, be flexible and adapt to the changing needs of stakeholders.
• Detail oriented with strong analytical and problem-solving skills including root cause analysis and ability to provide solutions.
• Strong communication and presentation skills.
• Exceptional interpersonal and relationship building skills with the ability to collaborate across different groups and regions.
• Strong organizational skills, including the ability to prioritize, and manage multiple activities.
• Excellent working knowledge of MS Excel (Pivot tables, v-lookups, functions), PowerPoint and Word.

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, And Skills

• Knowledge of key Finance systems and processes, including MIS and GL.
• Prior experience performing requirement analysis.
• Fixed income securities accounting experience preferred.
• Conversation/fluent in Spanish or Portuguese.

Eligibility

To be eligible for this role, you must be authorized to work in the United States. We do not offer any type of employment-based immigration sponsorship for this role. Likewise, JPMorgan Chase & Co. will not provide any assistance or sign any documentation in support of any other form of immigration sponsorship or benefit, including optional practical training (OPT) or curricular practical training (CPT).

Equal Opportunity & Inclusion

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

JPMorgan Chase & Co. is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Veterans.