Legal Entity Controller, Associate

Job Description
Join our Legal Entity Controller role as an Associate where you will have direct impacts the firm!
As a Legal Entity Controller, Associate within our dynamic team, you will play a pivotal role in overseeing the financial aspects of legal entities. Your work will span across various business lines, products, and operational areas, directly influencing the firm's Legal Entity financials and regulatory reporting. You will be operating in a robust control environment, handling local regulatory reporting and monthly closing processes, offering you a wide array of responsibilities and potential for growth.
Job Responsibilities:

• Approve accounting entries
• Ensure the overall integrity of financial statements under US Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and Japan GAAP
• Prepare local regulatory reports
• Support ad hoc queries and requests from management, auditors or regulators
• Coordinate with various teams such as Product Controllers, Financial Controllers, Business Managers, and Operations, etc.
• Keep track of assigned business results for booking accuracy
• Analyze revenue under Management accounting
• Monitor currency hedge processes
• Support new business initiatives
• Seek better control procedures which can be justified by cost/benefit analysis

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

• Minimum of 5 years of accounting and/or finance experience
• Native level Japanese and basic level English

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

• Understanding of financial products such as shorting, margin trade, security borrowing /lending, options, swap, forwards and futures, etc.
• GAAP knowledge (Japan GAAP and/or US GAAP)
• Regulatory reporting knowledge
• J-CPA, CFA and/or FRM holders are plus

About Us
J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world's most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals and institutional investors. Our first-class business in a first-class way approach to serving clients drives everything we do. We strive to build trusted, long-term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives.
We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.
About the Team
J.P. Morgan's Commercial & Investment Bank is a global leader across banking, markets, securities services and payments. Corporations, governments and institutions throughout the world entrust us with their business in more than 100 countries. The Commercial & Investment Bank provides strategic advice, raises capital, manages risk and extends liquidity in markets around the world.