Vice President - Firmwide Financial Control - Tax Asset Class Control

Are you ready to lead a dynamic team and make a significant impact in the world of Tax Asset Class Control? As a Vice President in our Tax ACC team, you'll drive strategic initiatives, enhance processes, and ensure robust controls across global operations. This role offers unparalleled opportunities to collaborate with senior management and diverse teams, fostering your professional growth. Join us and be at the forefront of transforming tax-related activities and financial reporting. Your expertise will shape the future of our Tax Organization!

You will manage a team of asset class controllers in the Tax area. This will involve working with senior management to support the delivery of key objectives for the department.

You will be expected to support your team, coach them through issues as they arise, and develop them and their processes to ensure good controls around all reconciliations. This role provides plenty of opportunities to work in conjunction with global Tax team as well as other FFC Teams to resolve issues and improve overall knowledge.

As Tax Asset Class Control (TAX ACC) Vice President, you will be performing many controls, checks, analysis and reconciliations with a focus on the data surrounding Tax. The common functions and activities owned by Tax ACC include but are not limited to the following: extracting the raw data from various systems, calculation of tax related to Equity products such as stocks, bonds, & derivatives, balance sheet reconciliation and substantiation, manual accounting/bookings to the general ledger, audit support for the Corporate Tax Organization, and executing the month end close in regards to timely tax postings and reporting.

Job responsibilities

• Manages and is responsible for the support of Tax Organization by understanding data, calculating tax, and reviewing postings to the general ledger and ensuring it is completed in an efficient and controlled manner
• Work closely with line of business controllers, product controllers, corporate tax, & project managers to drive forth and implement robust controls and implement strategic initiatives 
• Partner with various FFC teams globally to centralize Tax related activities to Tax ACC
• Manage month end, quarter end, and year end activities related to Tax postings in the general ledger
• Hands-on engagement in multiple projects, which includes proactively identifying process enhancements and work with stakeholders enact change in a timely manner
• Perform various control procedures & reconciliations to ensure the integrity of reported financials
• Ability to proactively identify process and/or infrastructure enhancements and work with stakeholders enact change
• Mobilize change wherever possible in order to simplify processes and enhance controls

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Extensive work experience within Tax, Financial Control, Accounting, or related area
• People management experience
• Excellent analytical skills and attention to detail including a strong control focus
• Excellent communication skills and ability to develop strong working relationships.
• Ability to critically challenge with the goal of identifying control issues
• Excellent command of business English and communication skills (both written and spoken)
• Educated to at least Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) level

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Previous Tax experience is preferable
• Solid understanding of financial products such as stocks, bonds, & derivatives
• Multiple years of people management experience and a track record of developing individuals and building a global team

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