Legal Entity Controller - Associate

Job Description
Are you ready to make a significant impact on our firm's financial integrity and regulatory compliance? As a Legal Entity Controller - Associate in Tokyo, you will play a crucial role in ensuring the accuracy and integrity of our financial statements. Join us to work in a dynamic environment where your expertise will contribute to the success of our diverse business operations.
As a Legal Entity Controller - Associate in our team, you will be responsible for the financial oversight of legal entities, ensuring compliance with both US GAAP and Japan GAAP. You will collaborate with various teams to support local regulatory reporting and monthly closing processes, directly impacting the firm's financials and regulatory reporting.
Job Responsibilities:

• Approve accounting entries
• Ensure the overall integrity of financial statements under US GAAP and Japan GAAP
• Prepare local regulatory reports
• Support ad hoc queries and requests from management, auditors, or regulators
• Coordinate with teams such as Product Controllers, Financial Controllers, Business Managers, and Operations
• Track assigned business results for booking accuracy
• Analyze revenue under Management accounting
• Monitor currency hedge processes
• Support new business initiatives
• Seek better control procedures through cost/benefit analysis

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills:

• Minimum of 5 years of accounting and/or finance experience
• Native level Japanese and basic level English

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills:

• Understanding of financial products such as shorting, margin trade, security borrowing/lending, options, swaps, forwards, and futures
• GAAP knowledge (Japan GAAP and/or US GAAP)
• Regulatory reporting knowledge
• J-CPA, CFA, and/or FRM holders are a plus

About Us
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 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. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.
About the Team
J.P. Morgan's Commercial & Investment Bank is a global leader across banking, markets, securities services and payments. Corporations, governments and institutions throughout the world entrust us with their business in more than 100 countries. The Commercial & Investment Bank provides strategic advice, raises capital, manages risk and extends liquidity in markets around the world.