Job Description:
Director of Finance
This role is highly analytical and requires an individual who can deliver insightful financial analysis and decision support to our BU business partners, as well as mentor a team of analysts and direct work in a multi-task, fast-paced and highly complex set of business units.
The Expertise We're Looking For
Undergraduate degree in Business, Accounting, Finance, or Economics with 10+ years of related work experience. MBA preferred.Applicants must have exceptional communication, conceptual thinking, project management, and problem-solving capabilities. Flexibility to both lead and contribute to teams are a must.
The Purpose of Your Role
The Director role sits within the Enterprise Technology finance organization. Enterprise Technology is comprised of many domains/BU's covering a broad range of services and activities, including cloud computing, software architecture, enterprise infrastructure, corporate technology, data architecture, cybersecurity, contact center technology and advanced process solutions.
The Skills You Bring
You apply a strategic, end to end business perspective with strong execution skillsYou maximize quantitative and qualitative problem solving skills to evaluate business opportunities through the lens of objectivity, optionality and clear considerationsYou build and maintain effective relationships with senior executives in a highly matrixed environmentYou are a self-motivated teammate who brings energy, passion, and intellectual curiosity to the officeYou build and motivate effective, results oriented teams through organizational, coaching, and mentoring skillsYour proven FP&A and line finance experience with strong ability to partner with senior managers.Your ability to envision the "big picture" while maintaining close attention to detail.Your synthesis of analysis and research into strategic insights and practical recommendations.Your proven ability to operate in a dynamic and fast paced environment.Your demonstrated ability to lead project/work activities and manage several priorities.
The Value You Deliver
Providing cost management, financial analysis and decision support to Senior IT Leaders to help achieve efficiency and value optimization goals.Handling expense and investment management, vendor optimization, model organization benefit analysis and IT activity costing. Supporting business and financial planning activities, budgeting, and internal customer requests.Providing critical thinking skills for development and implementation of new investments and services with linkages back to standard IT financial frameworks and financial systemsInteracting with senior IT leaders, senior business functional leadership, VP and SVP/CFO of Finance in addition to other finance partners.Partnering effectively within finance and IT across the enterprise and drive consensus where necessary.Assisting in development of executive presentations for senior management and develop story line in close coordination with business units; Create analytical views to support business financial options and decision making.Performing various ad-hoc analyses as required.Coach and develop direct and matrixed analysts.
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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 Best Place to Work in 2023. 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.
At Fidelity, our goal is for most people to work flexibly in a way that balances both personal and business needs with time onsite and offsite through what we're calling "Dynamic Working". Most associates will have a hybrid schedule with a requirement to work onsite at a Fidelity work location for at least one week, 5 consecutive days, every four weeks. These requirements are subject to change.
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.
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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 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.