What are the responsibilities and job description for the Global Real Estate (GRE) Finance - Associate position at JPMorgan Chase?
Job Description
The Global Real Estate (GRE) Finance team sits within the Chief Administrative Office’s Finance & Business Management division. This team analyzes key components of the Firm’s corporate real estate portfolio including capital and expense planning, balance sheet forecasting, headcount planning, and portfolio occupancy.
As a Financial Analysis Associate within the GRE Regional Finance team, you will be responsible for synthesizing financial results on a monthly and quarterly basis, as well as for budgets. Your scope of work will encompass both expenses and capital investments. You will also be tasked with conducting value-added analysis of financial results and ensuring a sound control environment. This role demands strong analytical and presentation skills, as you will be required to analyze and synthesize data into executive level materials for senior management. This fast-paced role requires flexibility and the ability to adapt to frequent shifts in priorities in response to LOB and senior leadership requests.
Job responsibilities
- Collaborate with GRE Regional Finance teams with all financial planning and forecast submission’s for each respective region; scope may include expenses and capital investments
- Contribute to quarterly Operational Business Review, which covers strategic and operational aspects of GRE
- Provide meaningful oversight on consolidated financial forecast and analyze key business drivers, performance against budget, targets, and trend analyses
- Unlock executive level insights on variance drivers between actuals, actuals vs forecast, round over round forecasts, flag risks and opportunities for the Global CFO
- Act with integrity and maintain confidentiality while producing 5-year forecast outlooks, combining key strategies and capital investment plans
- Concisely communicate with Corporate and Firmwide team on GRE’s monthly, quarterly, and annual budget submissions, provide comparative analysis on current submission vs. prior
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- 3 years of math, finance and/or accounting experience
- Excellent problem-solving skills, sharp analytical/quantitative skills and ability to analyze large data sets and draw conclusions, with an eye for detail but focused on the ‘big picture’
- Strong relationship building with proven experience of collaborating with others across functions, products, and locations
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Execution-orientated and able to complete tasks independently
- Ability to handle multiple deliverables simultaneously; must be comfortable with fast changing priorities
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Proficient in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint, experience with Tableau a plus
