Credit Controller - Senior Associate

Join JPMorganChase's Consumer and Community Banking (CCB) External Reporting team in a dynamic role working with the Credit Controller overseeing Current Expected Credit Loss (CECL) allowance governance processes across consumer sub-lines of business (LOB) encompassing automobile, credit card, business banking, and home loans. The team assists each sub-LOB controller and loss forecasting team in ensuring adherence to allowance reporting standards and works closely with credit risk modelers to ensure comprehensive consistent documentation across products including evidencing credible challenge cross sub-lines of business.  As CECL is highly regulated, you will be responsible for effectively communicating the robustness of processes and governance to auditors and examiners to achieve strong review ratings.

 

As a Senior Associate on the Credit Controller team, you will ensure compliance with corporate and regulatory requirements while maintaining a sound control environment and adherence to allowance reporting standards. You will assist the Regulatory and SEC Reporting Controllers teams in ensuring compliance and accuracy of the CECL allowance on financial statements and filings with various regulatory bodies such as the Federal Reserve Bank, OCC, FDIC, and SEC. Your role includes preparing and reviewing reports, providing supporting information as required by external auditors or regulatory authorities, and engaging in strategic projects while enhancing your technical skills with tools like Alteryx, Tableau, and SQL.

Job Responsibilities

• Assist the CCB Credit Controller in all facets of CCB’s Current Expected Credit Losses (CECL) governance process.
• Maintain an appropriate CCB Allowance for Credit Losses by adhering to the Firm’s Current Expected Credit Loss (CECL) policies and governance standards.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for inquiries related to CCB or Consumer Allowance, promoting collaboration and effective communication among CCB Finance Controllers, Credit Risk Loss Forecasting, Corporate Accounting Policy, Firmwide Risk Controllers, and SEC Reporting teams.
• Ensure strict control and governance processes across CCB, ensuring audit readiness at all times.
• Participate in quarterly sub-LOB and Firmwide Allowance governance meetings, actively engaging in and documenting the review and effective challenge of results.
• Document management's decision-making processes accurately, including drafting the quarterly CCB Allowance Memo.
• Review and edit sub-LOB Allowance Memos to ensure methodological consistency across teams and over time, while adhering to firmwide and CCB standards.
• Stay informed on economic research and contribute to the review and challenge of quarterly macro-economic variable projections produced by the Firmwide Economics and Scenario Analytics (FESA) team.
• Support the Regulatory and SEC Reporting Controllers teams in the preparation and review of financial statements and filings with regulatory bodies such as the Federal Reserve Bank, OCC, FDIC, and SEC, ensuring compliance and accuracy of the CECL allowance.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Bachelor’s degree in an analytical discipline
• 4+ years of experience in accounting, controller, audit and/or analytical roles
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Strong presentation skills with the ability to build presentation decks
• Ability to break down and effectively explain complex topics to a variety of audiences
• Proficient with data aggregation and interpretation
• Experience collaborating across diverse disciplines with all levels of management

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Familiarity with CECL and other Bank regulatory reporting

Additional Information

Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are not able to provide immigration sponsorship or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.

Final Job Grade level and corporate title will be determined at time of offer and may differ from this posting.

This role does not provide relocation assistance so all candidates must be local to the work locations listed in the job posting or willing to relocate on their own immediately upon hiring.

Chase is a leading financial services firm, helping nearly half of America’s households and small businesses achieve their financial goals through a broad range of financial products. Our mission is to create engaged, lifelong relationships and put our customers at the heart of everything we do. We also help small businesses, nonprofits and cities grow, delivering solutions to solve all their financial needs. 

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