Legal Entity Controller - Associate

Bring your accounting insight and control mindset to a role where accuracy, transparency, and continuous improvement matter. You will help deliver high-quality financial information, strengthen the control environment, and collaborate across teams to improve data quality and close execution. You will join a supportive, global finance organization where you can broaden your expertise across reporting, governance, and process enhancement.

As a Legal Entity Controller, Associate at JPMorganChase within the Controllers organization, you will help ensure the integrity and validity of legal entity financial statements and related controls. You will contribute to statutory and corporate reporting, balance sheet and profit and loss statement analysis, reconciliations, and audit support, while partnering closely with stakeholders to resolve issues and elevate data quality.

Job responsibilities

• Prepare monthly, quarterly, half-year and annual statutory and corporate reporting deliverables for assigned legal entities
• Ensure integrity and accuracy of monthly financial statements, including close governance and control execution
• Perform reconciliations, substantiation, proofing, and data quality reviews, including reconciliation of returns to the general ledger
• Coordinate intercompany and inter-entity reporting, investigate breaks, and drive timely resolution of balance sheet and profit and loss statement items
• Analyze balance sheet and profit and loss statement variances, clearly explaining drivers to stakeholders
• Support income tax and local tax reporting activities, partnering with internal stakeholders and external auditors as needed
• Act as a point of contact for regulatory and head office queries, providing timely and accurate responses
• Prepare financial management information (for example, dashboards, board materials, revenue analysis, and forecasts/plans)
• Participate in internal and external audits and support remediation of findings and control enhancements

Required qualifications, capabilities and skills

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Economics, or Business Administration
• Experience in legal entity controllership, statutory reporting, or external audit within the financial services industry
• Demonstrated technical accounting knowledge and experience preparing or reviewing financial statements
• Experience performing reconciliations, substantiation, and general ledger control processes
• Working knowledge of corporate tax and value-added tax (VAT) concepts
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office, including strong Excel skills
• Fluency in Italian and English (written and spoken)
• Strong analytical skills with high attention to detail and sound judgment on materiality
• Ability to manage deadlines under time pressure while maintaining high quality and accuracy

Preferred qualifications, capabilities and skills

• Experience supporting Italy legal entities and local statutory requirements
• Experience with regulatory reporting and responding to regulator or head office inquiries
• Experience preparing management dashboards and board-ready materials
• Experience using workflow automation and data tools to improve reporting efficiency and data quality
• Experience partnering with global shared services teams to deliver consistent outcomes across locations