Sr. Manager, Finance

Job Description:

Sr. Manager, Finance

The Role

Are you interested in supporting financial analysis for the Asset Management Tech (AMT) 2,000 person, $400M portfolio across 9 different business domains in three different countries? Asset Management has been adding products and services over the last three years like never before which requires new or expanded technology capability to enable scale and efficiency while ensuring risk mitigation across the entire organization.

We are looking for a Senior Manager Finance that has a proven track record to combine a strategic business perspective with strong project management, analytical skills, and a curious approach to understand AM business, initiatives, and strategy supported by AM shared services of the Tech, Compliance Risk and Business Operations (CRBO) and Finance and Fund Oversight (FFO) business unites in AM. The person in this position will have financial analysis experience in defining project scope and execution while leveraging and mentoring junior associates and will work with other finance teams both in Asset Management and within other Fidelity businesses, all while maintaining a high level of quality. The Senior Manager will work within a collaborative team of Analyst and Director level peers, including team members and business partners in India and Ireland. Experience with technology finance, Cloud Service Providers, or Financial Operations is highly desirable.

This role will allow you to build relationships, demonstrate your skills to senior management, and provides a tremendous opportunity to further your career with Fidelity Investments Finance. The Asset Management Finance Team collaborates with a variety of partners including senior management, central finance, and the strategy teams to drive finance initiatives and results across Asset Management and Fidelity. As a member of the Finance team, you will also have multiple opportunities to lead and/or contribute to critical short- and long-term Asset Management wide finance initiatives.

This position will report to the Vice President of Finance for Asset Management for technology and shared services within the broader Asset Management Finance and Funds Oversight group.

The Value You Deliver

Directly support AM Tech domains and the Finance and Fund Oversight group (FFO)

As their primary finance lead, including working directly with L3 leaders and their teams.

• Lead the evolving development of the predictive models for all cloud service providers: AWS, Snowflake, Azure, etc. across all AM tech domains working with FINOPS leads to enable improved forecasting with the inclusion of growth drivers and optimizations. This area of dynamic growth and change provides a unique opportunity to facilitate learning by more transparent variance analyses of actual results compared to expectations and plans.
• Lead budgeting & forecasting equipment and software spend across AM Tech domains and all direct expenses for assigned tech domains and all of FFO including software budgets, forecasts, and quarterly technology portfolio planning using Anaplan software.
• Oversee the reporting of monthly results and analyses including TBM and GL views of Expense and Headcount while providing insight and analysis.
• Partner directly and develop positive relationships with Strategy Enablement team through insightful planning, analysis, and reporting of labor and non-labor spend as well as capacity planning and efficiency reviews.
• Lead and support analytical review for technology initiative spend in support of AM businesses/products as well as for end-to-end Tech processes as it relates to efficiency of core and common Tech processes.
• Mentor team members to help them develop core finance skills.
  The Expertise You Have
  
  Bachelor's Degree in Finance, Accounting, or Economics combined with a minimum of 6+ years' work experience in a finance capacity.
  
  Demonstrated strength in data analysis and model development and review.
  
  Project Management from concept to conclusion while working with multiple senior stakeholders.
  
  Excellent knowledge of financial model design and visualization (using tools such as Advanced Microsoft Excel, Power BI, Tableau, PowerPoint, Anaplan and Think-Cell) and proven track record for the build, evaluation, and improvement of sophisticated models.
  
  Demonstrated financial statement analysis and skills to identify/resolve detailed financial issues while understanding larger business context.
  
  Experience in financial services industry is highly desired.
  
  Knowledge of agile operating concepts including Scrum is valuable.
  
  MBA, CPA, Data analytics certifications is valuable.
  
  Knowledge of Cloud Service Provider services and costing is valuable.
  
  The Skills You Bring
  
  Running multiple projects across all focus areas via modeling, analysis and execution, while collaborating with business and finance partners.
  
  Assessing issues and presenting options to enable decision-making by senior management.
  
  Providing executive communication directly to senior AMT management.
  
  Ability to prioritize tasks to consistently meet business partner expectations.
  
  Confidence and ability to influence others across the organization.
  
  Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
  
  Strong interpersonal skills.
  
  High degree of comfort with data, database queries, and financials.
  
  Display strong desire and willingness to learn new skills and level up existing skills.
  
  Certifications:
  
  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.
  
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