Director, Real Estate Shareholder Reporting

Job Description:

The Role

Are you interested in leading both people and process on a developing operational team? Do you have a solid understanding of financial reporting requirements for real estate products? The Director, Real Estate Shareholder Reporting, Financial Statements Production role manages a team that delivers accurate, timely financial reports required for real estate funds. Primary responsibilities of the role relate to the Core Real Estate Fund established as a REIT and includes quarterly/annual reporting, as well as the use of Yardi accounting software.

Additional responsibilities also include ensuring financial statements are accurate, timely and adhere to GAAP and other relevant accounting standards. Your functional and technical area expertise will help you to lead and influence the team, resolve production issues, and implement process improvements aimed at increasing efficiency and quality. You will engage closely with the alternative accounting and direct real estate team, and the products’ external auditors in overseeing the annual financials and audit cycle.

You will be part of a team dedicated to alternative products and focused on identifying short and long-term processes, controls, and technology solutions to support operational proficiency on new and evolving products. You will think and work across Fidelity partnering with the rest of the Fidelity Fund and Investment Operations (FFIO) organization and collaborate with business partners in Asset Management including relevant investment divisions, the Treasurer’s Office and Compliance, Risk & Business Operations.

The Expertise and Skills You Bring

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent with 8 years of financial services experience with real estate products and public company financial reporting (Form 10K, 10Q, 8K and other reporting as needed).
• CPA or MBA preferred.
• Proven track record of team building, people management skills (hiring, training, motivating, managing performance).
• Advanced technical knowledge of real estate reporting as well as relevant accounting and reporting standards (US GAAP).
• Experience with Yardi accounting software strongly preferred
• Working knowledge of risk frameworks and ability to design and oversee processes that ensure a strong control environment and SOX 404 Compliance.
• Ability to work with all levels of management and make high impact decisions quickly and accurately.
• Strong understanding of workflows and requirements of internal and external business partners and system applications.
• Innovation attitude – ability to identify and drive forward new ways to improve current processes.
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills and strong presentation capability.
• Proficiency in various PC software applications (e.g., MS Teams, Excel, Word, PowerPoint)
• Advanced excel skills and experience developing light automation solutions for financial reporting preferred.

The Team

In Shareholder Reporting, we’re on a mission to deliver SMART, SIMPLE and SCALABLE shareholder reporting solutions while cultivating our talent. Our team is part of the Fidelity Fund and Investment Operations (FFIO) organization. In fact, we’re the largest service line within FFIO and are responsible for producing and distributing financial statements, prospectuses, and other fund and legal documents to our customers and filing them with the SEC. Doing this in the smartest and most effective way is more important than ever as we are in the midst of implementing Fidelity’s new and alternative investment products, new and changing regulations, and a brand-new technology platform that will transform the way we work. Lots of opportunity to develop key knowledge, experience and capabilities that will continue to contribute to Fidelity’s current and future success!

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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 hybrid working model blends the best of both onsite and offsite work experiences. Having the majority of our associates work onsite is important for our business strategy and our culture. We also value the benefits that working offsite offers associates. Most roles listed as Hybrid will require associates to work onsite all business days of every other week in a Fidelity office. This does not apply to roles listed as Remote or Onsite.

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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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.