Strategic Finance Associate, Fixed Income Accounting

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Newark (DE); On-site; Full time

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 stakeholder 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 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

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).