Fund Controller - Associate

Description Join a high-impact oversight team that safeguards the integrity of JPMorganChase Asset Management’s UK fund range. This role sits at the intersection of valuation, financial reporting, and operational governance, partnering with senior stakeholders and external providers. You’ll help ensure investors, boards, and regulators can rely on accurate pricing, robust controls, and timely disclosures. As a Fund Controller - Associate within the UK Client Service & Business Platform team (Product Administration), you oversee outsourced fund administration delivery for the UK fund range, ensuring strong governance, control discipline, and service quality. You monitor NAV accuracy, valuation matters, and fund lifecycle activities while driving timely and compliant internal and external reporting. You manage escalations, strengthen vendor performance, and support board/audit interactions across multiple vehicles, share classes, and jurisdictions. Job Responsibilities • Monitor fund administrator delivery, focusing on NAV accuracy, price publication, and operational SLAs. • Review daily market events to assess fair valuation considerations and required actions. • Manage fund lifecycle activities including swing pricing, fee billing, and fund calendars. • Oversee NAV error identification, remediation workflows, and governance documentation. • Validate management fee and performance fee calculations, invoices, and payment readiness. • Coordinate statutory and regulatory reporting oversight (e.g., AIC, portfolio disclosures, AIFMD) and MIS production. • Review fund expenses and invoice processing for accuracy, completeness, and appropriate approvals. • Assess financial reporting outputs, forecasting inputs, and disclosure control requirements. • Support audit planning and query resolution while maintaining effective auditor relationships. • Maintain vendor relationships across fund accounting, custody, trustee/depositary, and related service providers (excluding T/A). • Escalate errors, incidents, and control breaches promptly with clear root-cause and action plans. Required qualifications, capabilities and skills • Hold a CA/CPA/ACCA (or equivalent) accounting qualification. • Demonstrate a minimum of 5 years’ experience in fund administration or asset management with fund accounting and financial reporting exposure. • Apply strong technical knowledge of investment fund structures (e.g., collective investment funds, investment trusts). • Interpret Lux GAAP, UK GAAP, and IFRS requirements relevant to fund and trust reporting. • Explain EMEA fund product features, accounting principles, and key regulatory frameworks (UCITS/AIFM context). • Operate confidently in MS Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook) with strong data handling and reporting discipline. • Communicate clearly with stakeholders, governance bodies, and senior management across written and verbal formats. Preferred qualifications, capabilities and skills • Leverage advanced Excel skills (e.g., pivoting, Power Query, complex reconciliations) to strengthen oversight and MI. • Automate repeatable controls or reporting using VBA, Alteryx, Python, or similar tooling where appropriate. • Utilize LLM-enabled productivity techniques to accelerate drafting, issue analysis, and control documentation. • Demonstrate strong vendor management capability, including SLA/KPI governance and structured escalations. • Partner effectively across global, cross-functional teams with strong stakeholder and conflict management skills. • Prioritize multiple deadlines with high attention to detail in a daily-priced, multi-share-class environment. • Present concise, board-ready updates on incidents, valuation matters, and key operational risks.