Job Description:

The Role

As the NAV – Fund Accounting Core Squad Lead, you blend deep fund accounting / operational expertise with a passion for delivering innovative results and stability to the FA core applications. As the squad lead you are the end-to-end gatekeeper of the squad mission, strategy, and tactical execution associated with delivering on strategic priorities. In an agile structure, you will partner with other Fidelity leaders to influence the broader strategic decisions, roadmaps and resource requirements, set and refine the mission, and bring together a team of chapter members to execute on specific product features. In addition you will be in the escalation chain for significant impacting production issues and responsible as a central point of contact to assess impact, work through remediation and follow through to strategic solution to avoid similar issues in future.

You will ensure alignment on the 'what' and 'when' work is to be performed through ongoing planning and prioritization of a product backlog. You will enable squad members to work iteratively, innovate through testing and experimentation and learn from failures while celebrating success. You are committed to developing your own expertise and knowledge to ensure you bring the latest thinking to your role.

You work in partnership with the NAV Core Product Area Leader, other Domain related Product Area Leads, Squad Leaders, and Chapter Leaders aligned to your squad and applications. By demonstrating and promoting Fidelity and agile leadership behaviors, you sustain and evolve our innovative agile culture.

The Experience and Skills you Bring

Bachelor’s degree, Masters preferred 8+ years of fund operations and/or fund operations related IT development / leadership experience Deliver business results and customer value Proven experience delivering sophisticated technical projects requiring collaboration across organizations Positive relationship building and mentor skills Ability to collaborate and influence at all levels of the organization Proven experience designing, developing and maintaining dynamic products and solutions Agile experience preferred Jira and Jira Align experience preferred Data-focused approach to understanding customer needs, translate strategic objectives into action, and prioritize to improve value delivered Grasp sophisticated product features and break them into clear and concise stories with well-defined business value and acceptance criteria Strong focus on execution and identify, communicate and remove impediments to progress Proven capability of leading, influencing, and motivating colleagues without formal authority, and have a track record of building hard-working teams Establish and maintain positive relationships as you work collaboratively across Fidelity to deliver business outcomes and seek out the expertise of colleagues to advise on your approach Strong business knowledge of Trade Processing and Settlement workflow Defining, refining, and communicating the squads' mission and roadmap to empower and establish team and partner support and alignment Anticipating, discovering and prioritizing client / partner needs Defining, evaluating, and communicating results against acceptance criteria while removing impediments Collaborating and coordinating with Chapter Leaders and Scrum Masters to build squad capacity and capability and enabling squad member growth, development and learning Making informed trade-off decisions to strike the right balance between quality, cost, and timelines Supporting and enabling squad member to be effective, productive and innovative Developing cross company and industry partnerships in order to align and move the product forward Participating in client and industry meetings to understand their strategic vision and aligning to the squad, tribe and domain roadmaps Delivering business results and customer value / identifying critical metrics to measure results

Note: Fidelity is not providing immigration sponsorship for this position

The Team

The NAV Fund Accounting Core product area exists to support leading vendor supplied and internally developed fund accounting platforms to deliver the business value of accurate and timely accounting related data for Fidelity managed and/or serviced investment products. This includes integration both upstream and downstream to the Fidelity eco-system. In order to deliver on this mission Agility must be at the core of how we operate to deliver Next Generation solutions that are not only secure and scalable, but also innovative and customer centric.

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