You are a strategic thinker with a passion for financial analysis and operational excellence. As the Finance Lead, India CAO within the India CAO organization, you will play a pivotal role as a trusted finance partner—supporting business-as-usual (BAU) activities, leadership reviews, and tech-enabled initiatives across F&BM deliverables, controls enhancements, and SAP CO allocations.
Job Responsibilities
- Lead annual budget preparation and documentation for leadership (yearly budgeting exercise for CAO Admin along with review with functional leads for their areas), ensuring accuracy and completeness.
- Manage monthly cost tracking, accruals, reclasses, SAP CO allocations, and spend outlook -Own CAO Admin GL review (including expense categorization). Manage central expense tracking (EAW / RUN / Impact Awards) and monthly India CAO Financials (EMR). Billing, invoices & finance controls
- Oversee billing rule uploads/approvals, monthly unbilled balance clearance, CFO invoice review, and finance controls. Finalize monthly review documents; support vendor meetings and CAO reviews.
Headcount & hierarchies - Deliver monthly India headcount reporting (open positions/new joiners).
Reconcile headcount between Essbase and the India Book. Maintain ECCM hierarchy, RDHO updates, and alternate hierarchy. Analysis & leadership insight - Conduct ad-hoc analysis and thematic reviews; provide actionable insights to support strategic decisions.
- Collaborate on tech projects (e.g., SAP CO Allocations, Data Enablement).
Participate in brainstorming with Finance, CDO, and tech teams; support leadership reviews and CAO review documentation.
- Partner with CAO Controls on internal audits, control reviews, and risk assessments; ensure compliance and drive the controls agenda for CAO F&BM india teams
- Run regular connects with India CAO leadership, produce ad-hoc reports, and support review meetings.
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
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Experience: 10+ years experience in finance space
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Execution & prioritization: Proven ability to independently prioritize work, manage surge periods, and deliver under tight deadlines.
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Analytical capability: Strong analytical/problem-solving skills—able to collect, reconcile, interpret data; identify variances/risks; translate into actionable insights.
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Partnership: Ability to partner with finance teams locally and globally, and with local operations leads and their teams.
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Communication: Excellent communication and stakeholder-management skills; able to produce clear analyses and executive-ready materials.
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
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Education: Bachelor’s Degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or related field (CA/MBA preferred).
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Reporting-cycle experience (preferred): Experience running monthly management reporting cycles (e.g., EMR, invoice reviews, controls agenda).
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Tools/Tech: Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint; Databricks & AI knowledge is a plus.
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Preferred exposure: Headcount reporting, ECCM hierarchy maintenance, and/or hierarchy governance.
JPMorganChase, one of the oldest financial institutions, offers innovative financial solutions to millions of consumers, small businesses and many of the world’s most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients under the J.P. Morgan and Chase brands. Our history spans over 200 years and today we are a leader in investment banking, consumer and small business banking, commercial banking, financial transaction processing and asset management.
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Skills Required
- 10+ years of experience in finance
- Ability to independently prioritize work, manage surge periods, and deliver under tight deadlines
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including data collection, reconciliation, interpretation, and variance or risk identification
- Ability to partner with local and global finance teams and operations leads
- Excellent communication and stakeholder-management skills; ability to produce clear analyses and executive-ready materials
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or a related field
- CA or MBA
- Experience running monthly management reporting cycles, invoice reviews, and controls agendas
- Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint
- Databricks and artificial intelligence knowledge
- Exposure to headcount reporting, ECCM hierarchy maintenance, or hierarchy governance
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Retirement Support — Retirement offerings include a 401(k)-type savings plan and related financial benefits, with options such as employee stock purchase participation. Financial planning resources are also highlighted to support long-term savings.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave of 16 weeks for birth or adoption is available for all parents. Child care and back-up child care resources further reinforce family support.
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