Global Finance – Tech CoE Automation and Application Development – Analyst

Job Description

JPMorgan Chase & Co. is a leading global financial services firm with assets of $2.4 trillion and operations worldwide. The Firm is a leader in investment banking, financial services for consumers, small business and commercial banking, financial transaction processing, asset management and private equity. A component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, JPMorgan Chase & Co. serves millions of consumers in the United States and many of the world’s most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients under its J.P. Morgan and Chase brands.

From managing the firm’s capital and reporting quarterly earnings to responding to and complying with regulatory requirements, more than 15,000 colleagues around the world work together every day to manage the firm's Global Finance function. Our job is to ensure the company is capable of navigating all types of market environments while maintaining a fortress balance sheet.

The Finance function is a dynamic organization that plays a critical role, particularly as increasing regulatory and capital requirements change the way we do business. Planning & Analysis (P&A), in addition to CFO teams, Controllers, Business Managers and Project management, make up the majority of the Global Finance & Business Management team.

Function Overview

Global Finance & Business Management (GF&BM) extends to India and is part of JPMorgan’s offshore center (Corporate Centers) as well. The team supports Finance Operations, Controllers, Planning & Analysis and Business & Sales support. The teams in India are all aligned to their respective business finance teams and the sales & business teams they support. Locally the teams are managed under a common governance and oversight framework.

The GF&BM Tech CoE is involved in the design, development, maintenance, migration and production support of various automation solutions including VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) Macros/Tools, MS Access Databases, Alteryx and Xceptor. The team follows Agile framework to deliver these solution and works closely with various finance operations teams to increase financial process efficiency and provide error-free results with minimum user intervention through automation.

Role Description

The role involves practicing the Agile framework and engage directly with multiple stakeholders (including product owners and process owners) to develop automation solutions for the business. Typically these will be various tactical solutions to aid process owners’ automation needs, which could be a stand-alone tool or integrate with one of the mainstream systems. Each member of the team has their own projects to complete the software development life cycle.

The candidate should demonstrate complete ownership and end to end responsibility in the tasks/projects assigned, and should be capable of participating in process owners or management meetings to gain more knowledge of the project work. The candidate is also expected to provide post production support and find ways to improve performance of various modules or components requiring strong analysis, research and debugging skills. The candidate should be open to working in shifts (11:30 AM to 8:30 PM).

Essential Skills

Technical (Must Have Skills):

- Expert Level VBA Programming

- Knowledge on Agile and Scrum framework

- MS Access Database Concepts (2013).

- Expert Level Excel Macros & MS Access Macros (2013).

- Expert Level SQL (Structured Query Language).

Technical (Nice to Have Skills):

- Working knowledge of SharePoint Designer

- Working knowledge of Alteryx

- Working knowledge of Xceptor

- VB.net

Behavioral (Must Have Skills):

- Ability to learn and adopt new technologies.

- Ability to adopt to the changing needs of the customers.

- Attention to detail is absolutely critical.

- High level of personal commitment to each task, a can-do attitude and a drive to deliver.

- Ability to gather and understand requirements.

- Excellent documentation skills.

- Good analysis skills in order to aid in trouble shooting and problem solving

- Good testing principles as well as good defect management skills

- Effective verbal and written communication skills with a sound knowledge of email ethics.

- Ability to prioritize and manage users' expectations

- Strong time management and planning skills

- Experience of working in a fast paced environment.

- Ability to work as part of a team, sharing responsibilities and knowledge across the team

Business (Nice to Have Skills):

Qualifications

Educational / Experience

- Must have Bachelor's degree or above, in related stream of education from an accredited college/university