Job Description:

The Purpose of your Role

As part of the Enterprise Functions Decision Support team, this position will support the Risk, Finance, Global Security and Meetings & Events BUs. This is a challenging role that requires an individual who can multi-task in a fast-paced, highly sophisticated, and ever-changing organization. The ability to work with business partners of various levels, Accounting and Central Finance as well as other Finance organizations is a necessity.

The Financial Analyst is tasked with providing finance support and advice to the BU's. The role is responsible for analyzing and interpreting spend across the P&L, lead the forecast and budgeting process, and maintain and create unit cost metrics and Key Performance Indicators. In addition, this position plays a lead role in month-end close activities and variance commentary production, as well as making recommendations on invoice accruals, and providing monthly financial reviews to leadership.

The Expertise You Have

• Bachelor’s degree in business, Accounting, Finance, or Economics with 2-4 years of related work experience. MBA preferred.
• Applicants must have exceptional analytical, communication, conceptual thinking, and problem-solving capabilities. Flexibility and the skill to both lead and contribute are necessary
• Excellent communication and people skills along with ability to build relationships and influence across all levels of the business, including role as fiduciary steward

The Skills You Bring

• Proficient in Excel and PowerPoint, experience with business intelligence tools (Power BI) and Anaplan is highly encouraged
• Exceptional analytical, problem solving and data modeling skills
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to summarize and clearly articulate complex issues, synthesize key points and effectively communicate findings
• Proficiency to learn quickly and work well under pressure in a fast-paced environment
• Confidence and maturity to work independently and across various levels of the organization
• Flexibility and resourcefulness to manage several priorities in a deadline driven environment, having comfort with ambiguity

The Value You Deliver

• Influencing senior business leaders on key decisions by providing clear and concise evaluations, analysis, and financial models.
• Developing financial analysis and reporting of business unit expenses including periodic reporting and analysis as well as month-end close processing and variance analysis, forecasting, budgeting, and related business commentary.
• Supporting ongoing and ad-hoc analysis and develop recommendations, including scenario analysis.
• Evaluating and improving existing data gathering tools to meet changing business needs and efficiency goals.
• Coaching and developing junior level analysts.

The Team

As a finance function, our mission is to drive outstanding business performance and improve the long-term value of the Firm. The Enterprise Functions Analytics team provides oversight for over $450 Million of expense and provides management with informed, insightful, action-oriented financial analysis to guide effective decision-making.

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 are 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, all business days, every four weeks. These requirements are subject to change.

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