UK Legal Entity Controller - Associate
JPMorgan Chase
- London
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Plans, obtains approval and executes Legal Entity restructures or closures.
- Coordinates of ad-hoc requests such as dividends, capital injections and other corporate actions, and providing tracking of these actions to management.
- Supports various projects and initiatives which impact legal entities including product, regulatory, compliance and other business driven initiatives or strategies including legal entity simplification.
- Builds and manages relationships with key stakeholders including Product Control, Business Management, Operations, Compliance, Corporate and CIB Treasury, and Regulatory Teams.
- Updates and reviews of UK LEC owned sections of Legal Entity ICARA.
- Prepares of ICAAP stress testing and other reporting.
- Produces key disclosures contained within the UK statutory financial statements under local GAAP, working closely with the Lines of Business and external audit.
- Runs standalone US regulatory reporting to the Federal Reserve Bank
- Supports cross entity disclosures & audit tasks for the wider LEC team during the year where required.
- Qualified accountant (i.e. CA, ACCA, CPA, CIMA etc.) with relevant experience.
- Solid understanding of investment and retail bank financial accounting and products.
- Ability to work under 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.
- 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 Alteryx & Tableau