JPMorgan Chase—Financial Analysis - Associate

Job description

Description: You are a strategic thinker passionate about driving solutions in financial analysis. You have found the right team. As a Financial Analysis Associate within Financial Analysis, you are a strategic thinker passionate about promoting solutions in financial analysis. Job responsibilities - Manage annual/continual financial planning activities for product areas, providing business rationale 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 - Work on Efficiency reporting, analytics and strategy - including, but not limited to - location strategy, span of control, reporting and analytics - Creatw financial business cases supporting business initiatives - Report on and monitor key metrics, driving data quality initiatives across the product area, and helping define future needs of the product area - Develop and track performance metrics, creating presentations, and generally providing financial analysis on a variety of topics to senior management - Perform variance analysis to understand the key drivers of the results and presenting commentary to senior managers, explaining changes from prior forecasts/budgets - Help design new reports and dashboards to efficiently deliver the financial results to senior management - Enhance controls and streamlining processes, introducing automation where possible Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills - Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance or a subject of a technical nature - 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 - Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex issues clearly - Ability to create ad hoc reporting for senior management - Proven track record for executing on special projects / assignments, often with little lead time or information - Highly motivated and able to thrive and think clearly under pressure and tight deadlines - Team player with the ability to be respected as a trusted partner for the Business, Finance, and FP&A Teams - Highly motivated self-starter with excellent time management/prioritization skills Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills - 3+ years of work experience, preferably in Financial Services, and/or accounting/controller background - Strong analytical and problem solving skills with ability to analyze large data sets and present conclusions concisely