Job Description:

The Role

As a Senior Manager of Accounting, you will be a key member of the Fidelity Investments Life Insurance ("FILI") accounting team. You will manage two associates and be responsible for leading a team that supports FILI’s accounting and reporting, financial close, and controllership activities.

• Lead a team that oversees the monthly financial close including review of journal entries, account reconciliations, and variance analysis
• Responsible for monthly and quarterly financial close and support regulatory filings and annual financial statement reporting
• Provide well written and insightful financial commentary on financial results including presentations to senior management
• Perform technical accounting research under current guidance and impact of new guidance
• Work closely with business partners by providing accounting expertise in new products and other business initiatives
• Manage the audit process with external auditors
• Lead financial control assessments of financial statement risks and controls and understanding of accounting and financial processes

The Expertise and The Skills You Bring

• A Bachelor's degree in Accounting, CPA and/or master's degree or equivalent training
• Experience in the Financial Services Industry (10 years) preferred but not required
• Advanced understanding of accounting principles, financial reporting, practices, and internal controls
• Ability to quickly understand and connect key concepts and dependencies
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Strong leader and mentor that builds relationships with business partners and team members by providing and seeking feedback
• Present and summarize results and complex information to Senior Management
• Manage and review the work of others
• Strong knowledge of how financial systems and dynamic reporting tools work (i.e., Oracle and Essbase) and are highly proficient in Excel
• You and your team exercise strong technical, analytical, problem solving and decision-making skills to address problems in a timely manner.

The Team

As an outstanding leader and team member, you play a key role on the FILI Accounting Team whose primary responsibilities are to ensure that transactions are recorded accurately for financial results and protecting the firm's assets through our work in financial accounting, internal controls, and legal entity reporting. FILI, who is part of Fidelity’s Wealth organization, provides annuity and insurance products that enable our customers to save for retirement and generate guaranteed lifetime income to meet their needs.

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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.