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Pension Analyst - Core Market Defined Benefits

Fidelity

Fidelity

IT, Accounting & Finance
smithfield, ri, usa · Covington, KY, USA · Merrimack, NH, USA · Westlake, TX, USA
Posted on Apr 3, 2025

Job Description:

The Role

In Workplace Investing, the Pension Analyst blends deep Defined Benefit domain expertise with a passion for teamwork, innovation and client management. This role is primarily responsible for establishing a team environment by providing direct leadership, technical expertise and workflow management to associates assigned to their defined benefit clients serviced from a consultative perspective. In addition, the Analyst will support the strategic direction of the business, lead highly complex issues to resolution and work with domain professionals to solution client improvements and enhancements through corporate actions & change orders. The Analyst will also engage with other lines of business on projects that affect other Defined Benefit products and services.

We are looking for someone to join our great team of professionals, who enjoy a fast-paced environment, and can provide quality work and a best-in-class client/customer experience.

The Pension Analyst plays an integral role in operational analytics, workflow, team leadership, and project management for client projects and internal initiatives. This role will serve as a team leader assisting in associate development, workflow management and operational quality assurance. They will assist Client Managers and Sr. Leaders with initiatives throughout the year, including but not limited to, improvement in execution, change control, and financial improvement.

The Expertise and Skills You Bring

  • Bachelor Degree or equivalent work experience
  • 5-7+ years of defined benefit/pension plan administration experience
  • Experience in Project Management and/or Analytics
  • Ability to balance day to day management of several projects related responsibilities and tasks including highly prioritized requests.
  • Strong mathematical and analytical skills including ability to perform complex manual calculations.
  • Proficient with Microsoft Excel, Access and working experience with data analytics
  • Client Management experience
  • You have critical thinking and problem solving skills. You are a leader with self-motivation and determination to succeed and ability to coach and mentor others
  • You must be technically inclined with application experience and competence including proficiency with various Defined Benefit Plan structures, complex calculations and data (e.g., Excel, Word, Access, etc.).
  • Good communication, both verbal and written; ability to implement/facilitate change. Forward looking, analytic, continuous improvement mentality
  • Demonstrate a mix of analytics and technical skills. Ability to run queries, analyze and organize large amounts of data and identify root cause and work towards solutions
  • Project consulting experience including requirement discovery and solution design
  • You have a solid ability to balance, prioritize multiple projects and understanding of risk management and time management
  • You have an ability work within budgeted timeframes to maintain client profitability without sacrificing quality

The Value You Deliver

  • Analyze, lead and drive operational services and efficiencies to our clients and organization’s bottom line.
  • Provide leadership on ad hoc client or internal projects that will require critical thinking and self-direction.
  • Provide information and advice on Plan documentation discrepancies and/or guidelines, e.g. data, provisional, or other plan/client issues.
  • Analyze, review, and guide client teams to the resolution of escalated client or participant issues.
  • Where applicable, serve as the day-to-day contact for issues to clients and participant for problem resolution, transaction issues, and data questions. Facilitate and/or participant in client meetings
  • Serve as a team leader and expert guide on multiple client plan processes, procedures and calculations. Maintain client direction documents
  • Own and analyze operational issues and recommend business solutions, based on knowledge of client’s plan design and system functionality. Work with internal teams to identify, analyze, and implement process and procedural changes based on new regulatory amendments and/or administrative improvements.
  • Play a significant role in implementation, corporate actions and/or other special projects in addition to the provision of ongoing services. Ensure defects are identified, corrected and tested.
  • Serve as an essential role model and coach to entire operational team and assist in their development and skills.

The Team

This role will reside within Workplace Investing Defined Benefit Operations organization. You will be responsible for handling and overseeing the day to day delivery of Defined Benefit client servicing, business reporting, contractual obligations, and internal scale & efficiency initiatives. You will support DB’s interests in collaborating with the cross product/functional SME’s, Center of Excellence and other lines of business. You will work to solve problems and be empowered to make decisions based on trends, issues, and business drivers.

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Operations

Fidelity’s hybrid working model blends the best of both onsite and offsite work experiences. Working onsite is important for our business strategy and our culture. We also value the benefits that working offsite offers associates. Most hybrid roles require associates to work onsite every other week (all business days, M-F) in a Fidelity office.

Company overview

At Fidelity, we are passionate about making our financial expertise broadly accessible and effective in helping people live the lives they want! We are a privately held company that places a high degree of value in creating and nurturing a work environment that attracts the best talent and reflects our commitment to our associates. We are proud of our diverse and inclusive workplace where we respect and value our associates for their unique perspectives and experiences. For information about working at Fidelity, visit FidelityCareers.com. Fidelity Investments is an equal opportunity employer. Fidelity will reasonably accommodate applicants with disabilities who need adjustments to complete the application or interview process.

If you would like to request an accommodation, please contact us at:

accommodations@fmr.com

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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).

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, or by calling 800-835-5099, prompt 2, option 3.

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 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.

Benefits
Learning & development
Culture

Benefits that adapt to everything life sends your way

401(k) with company match

Medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage

16-week maternity leave & 12-week parental leave

Student loan assistance

Fidelity is invested in you

Committed to Professional Development

At Fidelity, we are constantly adapting to the changing needs of our customers, new technologies, and better ways of working. And we empower our employees to do the same, with an emphasis on developing skills and connections that will help propel you forward in your career while being able to make an impact for Fidelity’s customers around the world.

We offer a wide range of options for professional development including online, in-person, and mentor driven solutions. Special interest and networking groups are also part of our culture of empowerment, personal and professional enrichment, diversity and inclusion, and knowledge sharing.

Continuing Education & Training

  • Assess, build, and align your development plan through resources like our skill-building classroom and online courses.
  • Video-based training for technology, leadership, management & more.
  • Ongoing skills development and coaching opportunities.
  • Paid training with a facilitator who is dedicated to your onboarding and will track and evaluate your progress, giving you strategies to improve.
  • A range of talent development programs to support career mobility.

Mentoring

  • Utilize the skills of experienced leaders to enrich your career.
  • Dedicated mentors to help you grow into new areas of Fidelity’s business as you develop new skills.
  • An open atmosphere of knowledge sharing and collaboration.
  • Opportunities to pay it forward, sharing the knowledge you develop and as you help others define how they want their career to take shape.

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

"Fidelity believes in, and is committed to, fair and equitable treatment for every associate and customer, and to creating a safe and respectful environment, in which everyone is treated with kindness, compassion and respect." Abby Johnson | Chairman and CEO Fidelity Investments

At Fidelity, we are committed to building an enduring culture of inclusion and belonging that will attract, develop and retain a diverse workforce.

Fidelity’s ten affinity groups are self-organized groups of employees with common interests in areas such as race, ethnicity, gender or sexual orientation, or who share similar interests based on similar sets of experiences.

These Employee Resource Groups and Special Interest Groups are models of inclusion for Fidelity. They’re also a powerful form of engagement and development and can provide a pathway to visible leadership roles. Our affinity groups make a large contribution on the business, helping to ensure our products and services are delivered in a welcoming and equitable environment.

  • Over 22K employees participate in an affinity group.
  • Over 1,400 affinity group members volunteered for Fidelity Cares in 2020.
  • 74% increase in affinity group memberships over the last three years.

Giving Back to Our Communities

Throughout Fidelity, you’ll find a genuine commitment to social responsibility – where we strive to make an impact for customers, while also making an impact on the world.

Fidelity Cares

  • Provides associates with opportunities to actively volunteer and share their talents.
  • Hosts numerous company-wide volunteer events (in-person and virtual).
  • Partners with nonprofit organizations to support our local communities.
  • More than 12,000 associates donate time annually – from interns to SVPs.
  • Impact includes refurbishing schools, donating books and supplies, and teaching financial literacy.

Fidelity Charitable®

  • Created to make it easy for people to support charitable organizations they care about.
  • Helped deliver $7.3 billion in donor-recommended grants to charity in 2019.
  • Supported more than 300,000 unique charities around the world.
  • Since its inception, more than $42 billion has been given to public charities.

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