EMEA Finance Controller - Vice President

Bring clarity to complex hedging activity that helps manage the firm’s balance sheet and risk. In this role, you will turn market and accounting detail into reporting leaders can trust and act on. You will work with diverse products across interest rates, foreign exchange, and fixed income while partnering closely with stakeholders across Finance, Risk, Operations, and Technology.

You support oversight, financial reporting, and analysis of hedging activity. You help ensure derivative accounting and reporting policies are applied consistently, and you deliver accurate close and management information. You partner with front office, finance stakeholders, and technology to improve data, controls, and reporting frameworks. You contribute to a culture where we strengthen governance while using automation and approved artificial intelligence capabilities to reduce manual effort and improve transparency.

Responsibilities

• Prepare and review monthly and quarterly close deliverables and support applicable regulatory reporting, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and timeliness.
• Maintain and enhance procedures and controls over hedging activity reporting, including audit testing support, evidence provision, and remediation tracking.
• Apply derivative accounting and reporting policies consistently and elevate issues and exceptions in a timely manner.
• Analyze firmwide foreign exchange exposures, including forecasted revenues and expenses and non-USD investments in subsidiaries.
• Draft clear hedge instructions for portfolio managers in line with established hedging frameworks.
• Explain hedge profit and loss drivers, including foreign exchange and rates impacts, and deliver management-ready commentary.
• Build and maintain senior-management analytics and management information packs, including variance and driver-based analysis.
• Identify process simplification opportunities and implement control and efficiency improvements with the team.
• Partner with Technology to deliver reporting requirements, resolve data issues, and support new hedging programs and reporting frameworks.
• Adopt automation and JPMorganChase-approved artificial intelligence tooling to accelerate commentary, standardize packs, and reduce manual reconciliations with auditability.
• Build relationships with controllers, planning and analysis partners, chief financial officers, treasurers, and regional teams to support global hedging programs.

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, mathematics, or another numerate discipline.
• Solid years of experience in financial control, product control, or financial reporting within financial services.
• Working knowledge of interest rate swaps, foreign exchange swaps, forwards, cross-currency swaps, fixed income instruments, and long-term debt.
• Solid grounding in financial accounting and finance, including interest in derivative and hedge accounting concepts.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills (including complex formulas).
• Experience using data automation and reporting tools (for example, Alteryx or similar).
• Ability to synthesize complex topics into clear, executive-ready written commentary and verbal updates.
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple deadlines and recurring deliverables.
• Strong stakeholder management skills across Finance, Risk, Operations, and Technology.
• Ability to run individual workstreams with minimal supervision while partnering effectively with a broader team.

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills

• Professional qualification (for example, Chartered Institute of Management Accountants, Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, Institute of Chartered Accountants, Chartered Financial Analyst, or equivalent).
• Direct experience supporting hedge accounting and/or derivative accounting policy implementation.
• Experience supporting regulatory reporting deliverables related to hedging or treasury activity.
• Proven track record delivering reporting enhancements or change initiatives with Technology partners.
• Experience implementing well-governed automation or artificial intelligence-enabled workflows in a finance control environment.
• Strong presentation skills with experience presenting to senior management.

Equal Employment Opportunity

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.