External Reporting Controller, Vice President - Commercial Investment Banking

The Commercial Investment Banking External Reporting team provides control and oversight to deliver accurate, timely external reporting, including SEC filings and key regulatory reports. The team also leads implementation of new reporting requirements and strengthens the overall control environment.

As an External Reporting Controller, Vice President on the Commercial Investment Banking Team, you will be the lead for governance of Issues & Errors that affect external reporting and will drive the lifecycle from identification through closure, ensuring issues are assessed, escalated, remediated, and prevented from recurring. A key piece of this is the change agenda to leverage AI to streamline the end to end process to be able to quickly identify where the impacts are.

You will also support the quarter end close and analytical review activities to enable confident sign-off of Commercial Investment Banking results included in disclosures and regulatory reports, while leading targeted change initiatives to improve process and control effectiveness.

** Job responsibilities*
* - Own the end-to-end lifecycle for issues and errors affecting external reporting, from identification through closure, with clear and auditable documentation.

- Coordinate issue assessment, escalation, and remediation across stakeholders to ensure timely decisions and durable closure.

- Partner with issue owners to evaluate cross-report impacts, perform pervasiveness assessments, and align on root cause and corrective/preventive actions.

- Deliver concise, actionable updates to senior leadership on status, risks, and remediation progress.

- Drive enhancements to the issues and errors operating model, including workflow streamlining, documentation automation, and improved recurrence-prevention practices.

- Prepare, review, and support earnings deliverables, external reporting, and key regulatory filings through the quarter-end close process.

- Develop variance and attribution narratives and challenge inputs, assumptions, and judgments impacting reported results.

- Lead stakeholder forums to align on key developments, reporting risks, and standards changes, including overseeing attestations and related activities.

- Lead change initiatives and strategic projects (e.g., new rule implementation, process enhancements), with clear scope, milestones, and outcomes.

- Manage and develop an onshore and offshore team to deliver against reporting, governance, and change objectives.

** Required qualifications, capabilities and skills*
* - Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance.

- Minimum 8 years of controllership experience within financial services (e.g., external reporting, product control, financial control, legal entity control, or financial planning and analysis).

- Strong understanding of markets and banking products, business models, and accounting concepts, gained in a global investment bank and/or professional services environment.

- Proven people leadership experience, including effective remote management of an offshore team.

- Strong analytical, problem-solving, organizational, and time-management skills, with excellent written and verbal communication.

- Demonstrated critical thinking and the ability to challenge established approaches to improve outcomes.

** Preferred qualifications, capabilities and skills*
* - Certified Public Accountant (CPA) designation (or equivalent).

- Experience with Databricks, SQL, or similar tools for data extraction and processing.

- Experience supporting earnings deliverables, SEC filings (10-K/10-Q), and regulatory filings, including FR Y-9C and the Call Report.

- Track record of driving efficiency through standardization, automation, and responsible use of AI-enabled tools to improve operating cadence, accelerate analysis, and strengthen controls

JPMorgan

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