JP Morgan Chase & Co. Hiring for Finance Operations Analyst at Bengaluru / Bangalore Full Time

The Financial Accounting, Infrastructure and Reporting (FAIR) team is accountable for the integrity of the books and records of the Firm / LOBs and leading large-scale data, infrastructure, accounting standard and business process change management events. The regional locations covered by FAIR include EMEA (Europe/Middle East/Africa), North America and Asia.
The organization closely examines the general ledger, operating systems and infrastructure controls across the entire lifecycle and diverse product scope of the investment bank to ensure the firm’s financial information is accurately depicted for reporting and regulation purposes. This financial information is used by analysts to assess the firm’s financial position by management to make sound financial decisions by investors to make informed decisions and by regulators to supervise and examine the firm appropriately.
Finance Reference Data (FRD), within FAIR, is responsible for providing a wide range of Finance and Accounting services to Business and Finance clients globally. Services include managing all aspects of core Financial Data Dimensions including Legal Entity, Business Unit, GL Account, Product, and Data Source. The FRD team performs transaction processing for add/change/close requests, provides data content analysis & mapping support across all Lines of Business, supports cross-firm project efforts related to Business, Regulatory, and Conversion events, and engages in a variety of support activities (Re-engineering, Production Support, Process/Policy/Procedure Management, Metrics Reporting, Controls, and Service Support).
Key roles and responsibilities:

• Daily responsibilities include processing BAU requests i.e. Add/Modify/Purge and consistently maintain data integrity across these dimensions
• Monitor and review the major processes and procedures with a high impact in FRD to identify and escalate potential issues
• Position has the authority to implement operational changes to resolve issues/data quality. This activity encompasses gauging the severity of the issue and its impacts, determining an appropriate solution, and implementing the resolution.
• Independently assess when and what type of messaging is needed for issues, changes to the system, or other system details and craft communications to key parties
• Conduct significant data mining and analysis to support recommendations and necessary action items
• Partner with finance partners and technology to identify root cause and resolve issues
• Partner with business stakeholders to identify opportunities for DQ discovery, profiling, and control solutions
• Analyzing the different datasets and performing complex comparisons
• Collaborate with other team members and peers to drive resolution of data quality and systemic issues
• Build strong partnerships across FAIR to support Data Quality efforts

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree/MBA (Accounting or Finance) or equivalent experience
• 4 plus years professional experience with at least 1 year of related finance and accounting experience
• Knowledge of Reference Data is a plus and have strong analytical bent of mind and data mining skills
• Good understanding and knowledge on accounting principles
• Strong analytical/problem solving skills and attention to detail
• Excellent communication skills both oral and written
• Detail oriented and precise
• Must be able to effectively prioritize and multi task
• Proactive, independent and self-managing.
• A team player and adaptable to changing environment with good interpersonal skills.
• Strong technical skills such as Access, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, SQL. Basic knowledge of SQL & Alteryx preferred