Emea Finance Controller- Vice President

JPMorgan Chase JPMorgan Chase · Banking · LONDON, United Kingdom · Corporate Sector

This role is a Vice President of Finance Controller for the EMEA region, focusing on hedging activities within the Treasury and Chief Investment Office Controller Team. The role involves financial reporting, analysis of derivative accounting, and partnering with various departments like Finance, Risk, Operations, and Technology. It also emphasizes using automation and approved AI capabilities to improve efficiency and transparency in financial processes.

What you'd actually do

  1. Prepare and review monthly and quarterly close deliverables and support applicable regulatory reporting, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and timeliness
  2. Maintain and enhance procedures and controls over hedging activity reporting, including audit testing support, evidence provision, and remediation tracking
  3. Apply derivative accounting and reporting policies consistently and escalate issues and exceptions in a timely manner
  4. Analyze firmwide foreign exchange exposures, including forecasted revenues and expenses and non USD investments in subsidiaries
  5. Draft clear hedge instructions for portfolio managers in line with established hedging frameworks

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, mathematics, or another numerate discipline
  • Solid years of experience in financial control, product control, or financial reporting within financial services
  • Working knowledge of interest rate swaps, foreign exchange swaps, forwards, cross-currency swaps, fixed income instruments, and long-term debt
  • Solid grounding in financial accounting and finance, including interest in derivative and hedge accounting concepts
  • Advanced Microsoft Excel skills (including complex formulas)
  • Experience using data automation and reporting tools (for example, Alteryx or similar)
  • Ability to synthesize complex topics into clear, executive-ready written commentary and verbal updates
  • Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple deadlines and recurring deliverables
  • Strong stakeholder management skills across Finance, Risk, Operations, and Technology
  • Ability to run individual workstreams with minimal supervision while partnering effectively with a broader team

Nice to have

  • Professional qualification (for example, Chartered Institute of Management Accountants, Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, Institute of Chartered Accountants, Chartered Financial Analyst, or equivalent)
  • Direct experience supporting hedge accounting and/or derivative accounting policy implementation
  • Experience supporting regulatory reporting deliverables related to hedging or treasury activity
  • Proven track record delivering reporting enhancements or change initiatives with Technology partners
  • Experience implementing well-governed automation or artificial intelligence-enabled workflows in a finance control environment
  • Strong presentation skills with experience presenting to senior management

What the JD emphasized

  • approved artificial intelligence capabilities