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Principal Business Analyst, Alternative Investments

Fidelity

Fidelity

IT
Merrimack, NH, USA · Westlake, TX, USA
Posted on Oct 21, 2025

Job Description:

The Role

This is an excellent opportunity for an individual contributor who has experience in, or is interested in learning about, Digital Assets, Liquid Alternatives and the expanding Alternative Products space overall. The Business Analyst Consultant combines in-depth knowledge of accounting and reporting matters with technical capability and superb interpersonal skills to elicit, define, and document systems requirements to the development team. This role is a liaison for the Shareholder Reporting business team to the IT systems groups. This role also includes general application support, issue documentation, project representation, and portfolio management, and interim business solutions using light automation. The Business Analyst Consultant performs many sub-roles combining business analyst, systems analyst, and project coordinator for the Shareholder Reporting team.

The Expertise and Skills You Bring

  • Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, business, business analysis, CIS or the equivalent and 5+ years prior experience in the mutual fund industry (previous financial reporting experience with Digital Assets/Alternative products is preferred).
  • 5+ years project experience required (active participation and/or management)
  • A self-starter with experience learning and adapting to new technology tools and investment vehicles quickly.
  • Your ability to work concurrently on a variety of opposing priorities, while remaining flexible to a constantly evolving regulatory environment.
  • Your strong verbal and written communication skills
  • Your experience in translating business requirements to technical resources in support of helping develop business solutions that reduce risk, increase business efficiency, and minimize impact.
  • Your experience working with product owners to build, prioritize and maintain product backlog to focus a team on delivering business solutions with the highest customer experience impact.
  • Your knowledge of and experience with tools and techniques for crafting, handling and evaluating business acceptance tests for end-to-end operational processes and end-users of solutions.
  • Your experience with activities, tasks, and practices for assessing and detailing business opportunities, benefits, risks, and success factors of potential solutions.
  • Your knowledge of and shown ability to implement the strategies and techniques used to ensure that customer needs are addressed in solution design that result in a positive experience with the organization and its products and services at every touch point.
  • Your ability to analyze business systems and/or business processes to identify user needs, document requirements, and address operation/process issues/improvements to accomplish business objectives.
  • Your extensive understanding of MS Office.
  • Your experience with database query tools, such as Microsoft Access, SQL, Power BI, or Oracle, are preferred.
  • Experience with SunGard’s InvestOne and the Geneva accounting software and related reporting tools are a plus.

The Team

Shareholder Reporting within Fidelity Fund and Investment Operations (FFIO), offers outstanding operational service to both Fidelity’s business partners and shareholders. The group’s main responsibility is performing qualitative reviews of regulatory reports on assigned U.S., Canadian, or offshore domiciled Fidelity funds to ensure accuracy and adherence to appropriate regulatory guidelines.

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Category:

Business Analysis

Most roles at Fidelity are Hybrid, requiring associates to work onsite every other week (all business days, M-F) in a Fidelity office. This does not apply to Remote or fully Onsite roles.

Please be advised that Fidelity’s business is governed by the provisions of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, the Investment Company Act of 1940, ERISA, numerous state laws governing securities, investment and retirement-related financial activities and the rules and regulations of numerous self-regulatory organizations, including FINRA, among others. Those laws and regulations may restrict Fidelity from hiring and/or associating with individuals with certain Criminal Histories.

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 [email protected], 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

Discover opportunities to build a fulfilling career within a supportive culture that celebrates individuality. We empower our associates to pursue career paths that align with their unique goals and personalities.

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 12,500 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 $14.9billion in donor-recommended grants to charity in 2024.
  • Supported more than 433,000 unique charities around the world.
  • Since its inception, more than $100 billion has been given to public charities.

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