Job Description:
Senior Manager – Workplace Investing & Fidelity Health Accounting & Controllership
The Role
The Senior Manager on the Workplace Investing (WI) and Fidelity Health Corporate Accounting & Controllership team will have responsibilities for both leading and performing financial reporting activities in support of WI & Healthcare Group entities and working with business and finance partners to ensure accuracy of our financial results. The senior manager will also be focused on streamlining accounting close activities and supporting the team’s various modernization efforts and projects.
The Expertise and Skills You Bring
- Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, CPA and/or advanced degree preferred
- 8+ years of relevant accounting experience, public accounting and financial services experience a plus
- Solid understanding of US GAAP accounting principles, financial reporting, and internal controls
- Experience providing coaching, feedback, leadership, and direction to a team as well as training and guiding less experienced team members
- Experience with, or demonstrated ability to learn, complex financial systems and multi-dimensional reporting tools (e.g., Oracle, FFP, PowerBI)
- Ability to multi-task, work under pressure, and meet deadlines, working both independently and as part of a team to drive work deliverables to completion
- Ability to work closely with finance, accounting, and business partners to ensure transactions are accurately reflected in the general ledger
- Ability to provide well written financial commentary on monthly or quarterly results and present these results during financial reporting reviews
- Can coordinate and lead the preparation of financial reports, engage with auditors, and lead our response to audit requests and inquiries
- Ability to identify internal control issues and to recommend solutions or improvements
- Ability to research accounting guidance and apply to areas you are responsible for, which may include new transactions or changes to product offerings
- Can identify operational improvements and recommend changes to existing business and system processes
- Can independently lead special project teams to implement changes while also recognizing the need for help and asking for support when needed
Certifications:
Category:Accounting
Fidelity’s hybrid working model blends the best of both onsite and offsite work experiences. Working onsite is important for our business strategy and our culture. We also value the benefits that working offsite offers associates. Most hybrid roles require associates to work onsite every other week (all business days, M-F) in a Fidelity office.
Top Skills
What We Do
At Fidelity, our goal is to make financial expertise broadly accessible and effective in helping people live the lives they want. We do this by focusing on a diverse set of customers: - from 23 million people investing their life savings, to 20,000 businesses managing their employee benefits to 10,000 advisors needing innovative technology to invest their clients’ money. We offer investment management, retirement planning, portfolio guidance, brokerage, and many other financial products.
Privately held for nearly 70 years, we’ve always believed by providing investors with access to the information and expertise, we can help them achieve better results. That’s been our approach- innovative yet personal, compassionate yet responsible, grounded by a tireless work ethic—it is the heart of the Fidelity way.
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