Embark on an exciting journey at JPMorganChase, where your role will be pivotal in managing complex cash reconciliations and resolving breaks. Your expertise will be crucial in ensuring accurate books and records across accounts and asset classes, while your exceptional problem-solving skills will drive operational efficiency and continuous improvement.
As a Trade Lifecycle Specialist IV (Reconciliations) within JPMorganChase, you will play a pivotal role in managing moderate to complex tasks related to daily cash reconciliations, including monitoring intraday and end-of-day activities, identifying and investigating breaks, and driving timely resolution within agreed SLAs. Your work will have a significant impact within your team, helping ensure accurate cash positions and reliable books and records across accounts, currencies, and cash networks. You will leverage your expertise in a variety of work processes, applying advanced knowledge of policies, procedures, and controls to solve non-routine exceptions and prevent recurring breaks. Your role will involve working on escalated investigations and high-impact items, requiring you to apply structured problem-solving techniques and strengthen end-to-end processes. Your ability to actively listen, manage internal stakeholders, create presentations, and initiate process improvements will be key to your success in this role.
Job responsibilities
- Perform daily reconciliations across assigned products/accounts; identify, investigate, and clear breaks within agreed SLAs.
- Analyze exceptions and root causes; partner with internal teams, agent banks, and technology to drive resolution to closure.
- Ensure adherence to regulatory requirements and internal controls; escalate aging breaks and client-impacting issues with clear status and actions.
- Monitor break volumes and exception trends; escalate unusual spikes, recurring themes, and emerging risks to the Team Lead/Manager.
- Support reviews, audits, and controls/process testing by preparing evidence and maintaining documentation.
- Identify process/control enhancements and support automation/standardization initiatives with technical partners.
- Provide support to the team for other assignments as required from time to time.
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Knowledge of reconciliation concepts, controls, and exception management (break identification, investigation, escalation).
- 2+ years of relevant operations/reconciliations experience.
- Understanding of financial instruments and basic accounting treatment.
- Experience with fund accounting and/or reconciliation systems and strong proficiency with Excel (and similar office tools).
- Strong attention to detail, time management, and ability to work to tight deadlines.
Clear written/verbal communication and effective stakeholder management.
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
Knowledge/experience with automation and analytics tools (e.g., Alteryx, MS VBA, Tableau, LLM-enabled tools and Microsoft Copilot, or similar applications) is an advantage.
About Us
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.
We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants’ and employees’ religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.
Skills Required
- Knowledge of reconciliation concepts, controls, and exception management (break identification, investigation, escalation).
- 2+ years of relevant operations/reconciliations experience.
- Understanding of financial instruments and basic accounting treatment.
- Experience with fund accounting and/or reconciliation systems.
- Strong proficiency with Excel and similar office tools.
- Strong attention to detail, time management, and ability to work to tight deadlines.
- Clear written and verbal communication and effective stakeholder management.
- Knowledge/experience with automation and analytics tools (e.g., Alteryx, MS VBA, Tableau, LLM-enabled tools, Microsoft Copilot).
JPMorganChase Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about JPMorganChase and has not been reviewed or approved by JPMorganChase.
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Healthcare Strength — Medical, dental, vision, and mental-health coverage are broad, with wellness incentives, on-site or virtual care, and an EAP offering coaching and counseling. Plan materials emphasize accessible options, including multiple medical choices and tools to manage costs.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave extends up to 16 weeks for all parents, supplemented by paid Critical Caregiver Leave. Family resources include backup childcare via Bright Horizons, lactation support and milk-shipping, family-building assistance, and even a free five-month SNOO rental for newborns.
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Retirement Support — Retirement programs include a 401(k) with an annual company match and automatic pay credits for most employees, with a legacy pension available to earlier hires. An Employee Stock Purchase Plan at a 5% discount further supports long-term savings.
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What We Do
JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) is a leading global financial services firm with assets of $3.7 trillion and operations worldwide. The firm is a leader in investment banking, financial services for consumers and small businesses, commercial banking, financial transaction processing, and asset management. 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. Technology fuels every aspect of our company and is at the heart of everything we do. With over 50,000 technologists globally and an annual tech spend of $12 billion, we are dedicated to improving the design, analytics, development, coding, testing and application programming that goes into creating high quality software and new products. Learn more about technology at our firm, explore resources from our Distinguished Engineers, AI & ML researchers, and other experts; access the latest episode of our TechTrends podcast, and more at www.jpmorgan.com/technology. Information about JPMorgan Chase & Co. is available at www.jpmorganchase.com. ©2023 JPMorgan Chase & Co. All rights reserved. JPMorgan Chase is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Veterans.
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