JPMorgan Chase India | Fund Servicing Associate

Job responsibilities

• Join JPMorganChase as a Fund Services Associate I and become an integral part of our dynamic team.
• This role offers a unique opportunity to enhance your career by working closely with operations, financial controllers, and external partners.
• As a Fund Servicing Associate I within JPMorganChase, you will play a pivotal role in enhancing our operational services related to fund accounting and administration.
• With your advanced emotional intelligence, you will build trusting relationships with peers, managers, and stakeholders, fostering a collaborative environment.
• You'll be at the forefront of ensuring smooth fund servicing operations while contributing to process improvements.
• Reconcile and resolve differences in clients’ cash and stock entitlements across Trade & Income products (e.g., paydowns, interest & dividends, collateral, margins).
• Review cash and asset breaks between accounting/custody records; ensure commentary is clear and understood by internal stakeholders and clients.
• Review day-to-day activities per SOPs, meeting agreed client deadlines and SLAs.
• Perform/coordinate audit support and resource planning for peak cycles with internal parties.
• Conduct ongoing analysis of client accounting records; escalate potential issues appropriately.
• Identify and correct misstatements; detect and escalate potential audit findings.
• Engage stakeholders to respond to accounting-related queries and adherence to all risk and control checks, checklists, and SOPs; keep documentation up to date.
• Liaise with OCM (internal control) on issues requiring review.
• Manage team activities including objective setting, performance reviews, and ongoing feedback; provide timely updates, MIS, and coordination with local/global management.

Requirements

• 8+ years experience in Fund Accounting and/or Reconciliations, with a solid understanding of financial products.
• Strong people leadership/management capability; ability to build key internal relationships across locations.
• Strong attention to detail and analytical review skills, particularly related to Fund Accounting numbers and reporting.
• Excellent understanding of US regulations, Mutual Funds, and NAV.
• Product exposure including MBS, ABS, dividends (as referenced in the JD).
• Strong risk, control, and procedure orientation; ability to apply checklists/SOPs rigorously.
• Ability to implement change and manage initiatives alongside BAU workload.
• Strong reconciliation background (explicitly called out as a significant advantage), demonstrating ability to compare transactions/positions and investigate/resolve breaks.
• Demonstrated experience driving workflow redesign / partnering with technology teams to permanently remove root-cause breaks.

JPMorgan Chase

JPMorgan Chase & Co. is one of the world's largest financial services firms, active in investment banking, commercial banking, asset and wealth management, and payments.

Its Indian global centres support the firm worldwide in finance, accounting, tax, controllership, risk, operations and technology. Typical roles for CAs and CPAs are product control, financial reporting, tax and regulatory reporting.

• Industry: Banking and financial services
• Headquarters: New York, USA
• In India: Corporate and investment banking in Mumbai; global corporate centres in Mumbai, Bengaluru and Hyderabad