Financial Quality Assurance Associate - Control Manager

Finance Control Management within Consumer & Community Banking Controllers supports a robust control environment by collaborating across  Consumer & Community Banking Finance & Business Management to identify risks early, design effective controls, and implement sustainable risk mitigation solutions. 

As a  Financial Quality Assurance Associate within Conusmer & Community Banking you will assist with mitigating the risk of reporting errors and provide ongoing assurance to management on the integrity of external reporting. Key program elements include Risk Assessment, Annual Planning, Review Execution, and Management Reporting.

Job Responsibilities

• Participating in QA reviews from end to end, including developing testing strategies, executing testing, and analyzing results.

• Executing testing on critical data elements relied on for external reporting

• Obtain, organize, and evaluate supporting documentation, evidencing what was tested and how conclusions were reached so workpapers stand alone for secondary review.

• Identify exceptions and draft clear, supportable documentation for review leads and stakeholder discussions.

• Support risk-based planning and scoping through population review and analytics to identify anomalies and inform sample selection.

• Participate in walkthroughs with stakeholders and support audit-ready documentation.

• Collaborate effectively with a global team split between Columbus, Ohio, and Bengaluru, India.

• Drive consistency and efficiency in execution through strong workpaper hygiene and effective use of Excel/PowerPoint and evolving analytics techniques.

   

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• 3+ years related experience in financial services, with exposure to audit, quality assurance/testing, controls testing, controllership support, or operational risk disciplines.

• Strong analytical skills and sound judgment; ability to quickly understand requirements, evaluate evidence, and draw clear conclusions with appropriate supervision.

• Strong verbal and written communications, including the ability to produce clear, concise, audit-ready documentation.

• Proficient in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint; comfortable working with large datasets and validating spreadsheet integrity.

• Ability to multi-task and manage/prioritize deliverables across multiple workstreams.

• Ability to build effective working relationships with internal stakeholders and collaborate across teams.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Policies, Procedures, and Regulatory Requirements: Learns JPMC policies, standards, and regulations, applies requirements based on business and product context with guidance, adheres to current policies, and understands how regulations relate to risk and control environment. 

• Data Literacy & Automation Awareness: Reads and interprets basic data, learns analysis and automation techniques (including ML capabilities), identifies efficiency opportunities with guidance, communicates insights with support to ensure accuracy, and translates technical concepts to business value.

• BS in Accounting or Finance; CPA preferred.

• Knowledge of U.S. Regulatory and SEC reporting requirements, US GAAP, external reporting control concepts, and/or financial services and related CCB products.

• Familiarity with U.S. financial regulatory reports such as FR Y-9C, FR Y-14Q, and FFIEC 031.

• Prior internal or external audit experience in a public accounting firm, or similar preferred.

• Familiar with evolving data analytics technologies such as Alteryx, SAS, SQL, Python, etc.