Job Description:
The Role
Are you interested in joining a collaborative, operations-focused team? Do you have strong knowledge and experience preparing or auditing financial statements for alternative investment products? In this role you will prepare, review, and coordinate the production of financial reports to ensure accuracy and compliance with regulatory, product-specific requirements and internal quality standards. Products in scope may include BDCs, Limited Partnerships and REITs with investments in alternative asset classes. Your ability to work within an operations team and to meet deadlines will be essential to our success in delivering high-quality financial reporting for Fidelity's Investment Products. You will also participate and/or lead operational efficiencies to scale and automate processes to support a growing line of products with diverse investments and structures. The role will interact with many groups within the Fidelity organization and effectively represents the business to customers and business partners.
The Expertise and Skills You Bring
- Bachelor's degree expected, MBA or CPA preferred
- 5+ years of financial services experience with an asset manager, audit firm or custodian bank, preferably in accounting operations or administration for alt investment products
- Extensive working experience using Geneva platform for partnership accounting and reporting preferred
- Advanced accounting and operational knowledge for alternative asset classes (e.g., commodities, real estate, private debt, private equity, distressed securities, derivatives, cryptocurrencies)
- In-depth knowledge of US GAAP financial reporting standards for nonregistered investment partnerships and familiarity with a variety of product structures including onshore and offshore LPs, master-feeder, open-ended and closed-ended arrangements
- Experience preparing, reviewing and/or auditing financial statements and related content for 10-K and 10-Q filings for products structured as BDCs, ETPs or REITs
- Advanced excel skills and experience translating accounting data into financial statement presentation
- Ability to lead independently and in an operations-focused, fast paced team environment
- Strong working knowledge of project and relationship management
- Excellent written and verbal communications skills and strong presentation capability
The Team
In Shareholder Reporting, we're on a mission to deliver SMART, SIMPLE and SCALABLE shareholder reporting solutions while cultivating our talent. Our team is part of the Fidelity Fund and Investment Operations (FFIO) organization. In fact, we're the largest service line within FFIO and are responsible for producing and distributing financial statements, prospectuses, and other fund and legal documents to our customers and filing them with the SEC. Doing this in the smartest and most effective way is more important than ever as we are in the midst of implementing Fidelity's new and alternative investment products, new and changing regulations, and a brand new technology platform that will transform the way we work. Lots of opportunity to develop key knowledge, experience and capabilities that will continue to contribute to Fidelity's current and future success!
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Company Overview
Fidelity Investments is a privately held company with a mission to strengthen the financial well-being of our clients. We help people invest and plan for their future. We assist companies and non-profit organizations in delivering benefits to their employees. And we provide institutions and independent advisors with investment and technology solutions to help invest their own clients' money.
Join Us
At Fidelity, you'll find endless opportunities to build a meaningful career that positively impacts peoples' lives, including yours. You can take advantage of flexible benefits that support you through every stage of your career, empowering you to thrive at work and at home. Honored with a Glassdoor Employees' Choice Award, we have been recognized by our employees as a top 10 Best Place to Work in 2024. And you don't need a finance background to succeed at Fidelity-we offer a range of opportunities for learning so you can build the career you've always imagined.
Fidelity's working model blends the best of working offsite with maximizing time together in person to meet associate and business needs. Currently, most hybrid roles require associates to work onsite all business days of one assigned week per four-week period (beginning in September 2024, the requirement will be two full assigned weeks).
At Fidelity, we value honesty, integrity, and the safety of our associates and customers within a heavily regulated industry. Certain roles may require candidates to go through a preliminary credit check during the screening process. Candidates who are presented with a Fidelity offer will need to go through a background investigation, detailed in this document, and may be asked to provide additional documentation as requested. This investigation includes but is not limited to a criminal, civil litigations and regulatory review, employment, education, and credit review (role dependent). These investigations will account for 7 years or more of history, depending on the role. Where permitted by federal or state law, Fidelity will also conduct a pre-employment drug screen, which will review for the following substances: Amphetamines, THC (marijuana), cocaine, opiates, phencyclidine.
We invite you to Find Your Fidelity at fidelitycareers.com.
Fidelity Investments is an equal opportunity employer. We believe that the most effective way to attract, develop and retain a diverse workforce is to build an enduring culture of inclusion and belonging.
Fidelity will reasonably accommodate applicants with disabilities who need adjustments to participate in the application or interview process. To initiate a request for an accommodation, contact the HR Accommodation Team by sending an email to accommodations@fmr.com, or by calling 800-835-5099, prompt 2, option 3.
