Sr. Manager, Accounting

Fidelity Investments•Smithfield, RI

4d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Role Learn, grow and build your career as a Senior Manager on the Asset Management ("AM") Accounting Team within Fidelity’s Corporate Accounting function, accountable for financial accounting and controllership to Fidelity’s Institutional Asset Management legal entities! You will be responsible for performing monthly close processes and overseeing monthly close activities that support the Fidelity Institutional Asset Management legal entities. Additionally, you will oversee the preparation of various financial reports including call reports, board presentations, and annual financial statements. You will also support the team’s various modernization efforts and projects on an ad hoc basis. You will play a key role in the professional development of the accounting professionals on your team. It will also be important for the Senior Manager to form relationships with accounting leadership, peers, central accounting functions (e.g., accounting policy, technology, etc.), billing and other support functions across the firm, and key vendors.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Accounting / Finance or equivalent
7+ years experience, Asset Management or financial services accounting preferred
Ability to lead and develop team members
Strong communication and social skills
Ability to influence business partners to achieve a desired business outcome
Make well-informed / reasoned decisions
Responsible for operational processes and internal controls to mitigate accounting and operational risks
Financial reporting experience
Audit participation experience
Accounting operations experience
Excellent written and verbal communications skills, including crafting presentations to communicate accounting results and other financial information
Be flexible. Be able to work on multiple areas/projects concurrently. Be willing to learn new skills
Effectively use financial systems, reporting and teamwork tools (Oracle, Excel, Word, SharePoint, Power BI, etc.)

Nice To Haves

CPA preferred
Asset Management or financial services accounting preferred

Responsibilities

Performing monthly close processes
Overseeing monthly close activities that support the Fidelity Institutional Asset Management legal entities
Oversee the preparation of various financial reports including call reports, board presentations, and annual financial statements
Support the team’s various modernization efforts and projects on an ad hoc basis
Play a key role in the professional development of the accounting professionals on your team
Form relationships with accounting leadership, peers, central accounting functions (e.g., accounting policy, technology, etc.), billing and other support functions across the firm, and key vendors
Maintain a strong control environment
Evaluate the results of management’s testing of controls performed by internal controls function
Prepare and review financial statements in accordance with U.S. GAAP
Assist with all aspects of external audits of AM entities
Timely meet requests and provide support
Form relationship with external audit counterparts
Timely work through operational issues impacting the accounting close and otherwise, as needed
Review and analyze legal entity results
Maintain documentation of significant related party transactions
Maintain an appropriate level of professional skepticism
Be change agent to propel the team forward
Identify, socialize and implement operational improvement opportunities
Build and maintain relationships with the controls program, the accounting policy function, and centers of excellence within Corporate Accounting, as well as key business partners including but not limited to AM finance, AM operations, corporate tax, and corporate treasury