Finance & Business Management - Associate

JPMorgan Chase & Co.•Plano, TX

About The Position

As an Associate in the Finance & Business Management team, you will partner across the firm to provide financial and strategic analysis, oversight, and coordination of budgeting and forecasting. You will be responsible for a wide range of activities including financial control, forecasting and budgeting, analysis of financial/business metrics, and delivery of management reporting. You will also develop new reporting capabilities and advise line of business CFOs on increasing profitability and efficiencies.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance
2+ years of work experience in Financial Services, and/or accounting/controller background
Advanced skills in Excel and PowerPoint
Proficiency with data mining/gathering and manipulation of data sets
Inquisitive, enthusiastic and diligent, and capable of challenging peers
Ability to create ad hoc reporting for senior management
Proven track record for executing on special projects / assignments with often little lead time or information
Team player with the ability to be respected as a trusted partner for the Business, Finance, and FP&A Teams
Strong analytical and problem solving skills with ability to analyze large data sets and present conclusions concisely
Authorized to work in the United States. No employment-based immigration sponsorship offered.
No assistance or documentation for any other form of immigration sponsorship or benefit, including OPT or CPT.

Responsibilities

Managing annual/continual financial planning activities for product areas, providing business rational and decisions for all month-end financial performance and forecasting, conducting reviews and analysis on product financial performance, consumption/demand planning, budgeting, billing, trends, and exception reports
Reporting, analytics and strategy; including, but not limited to location strategy, span of control, reporting and analytics
Creating financial business cases supporting business initiatives
Reporting on and monitoring key metrics, driving data quality initiatives across the product area, and helping define future needs of the product area
Developing and tracking performance metrics, creating presentations, and generally providing financial analysis on a variety of topics to senior management
Performing variance analysis to understand the key drivers of the results and presenting commentary to senior managers, explaining changes from prior forecasts/budgets
Helping design new reports and dashboards to efficiently deliver the financial results to senior management
Enhancing controls and streamlining processes, introducing automation where possible