Operations Reconciliation Analyst

REQ NUMBER – Reconciliation Services Representative IV

Working Hours: 8:00-4:30 PM

Our Reconciliations team are centrally involved in managing resources, processes, customer needs and responsible for the daily Cash reconciliations for Fidelity Mutual Funds. The team monitor exceptions to the bank in order to protect the Fidelity's integrity and our Shareholders.

You role is essential in driving the accuracy of the mutual funds’ accounting and will require you to complete Cash, Position, Bank, Fund, and/or Proxy reconciliations on time and within expectations.

Outside the daily activities we also have a strong bias towards continuous improvement and have an active backlog of projects for you to lead or participate in. These are a fantastic way for you to build new or deepen existing skills and craft your career path. While collaborating with team members & managers to provide feedback for improving the efficiency and service offerings of the dept.

Our work is completed through various systematic, written, and verbal interactions. The team interact with the Fund Accounting Teams, TAAC, Cash and Banking Operations, Fidelity Transfer Agents, Transfer Agent Banks, and other internal partners. Key experiences you bring to the role are:

• Your expert knowledge of reconciliations and industry regulations, cash & securities movement, accounting principles and the various elements of NAV, Mil or Yield calculation
• Deepening your proficiency across multiple security types/products and their process flows.
• Having the capacity to quickly come up to speed on processes, systems, and tools used by your team to perform reconciliations (i.e. Frontier)
• Being able to competently work with Microsoft Office (e.g. Word or Excel)
• A comfort with autonomy and balancing multiple priorities is something our team would value highly
• Taking pride in how you handle competing priorities and keeping track of your time each day.
• Your eye for detail will be an asset as you identify high risk items, call them out or seek assistance to minimize shareholder and Fidelity risk.

Your are central to the day to day operations of the team, while also using your analytical skills to contribute toward reporting to internal business partners or presentations to senior leaders in Ireland.

• You protect Fidelity through reconciling account activity or researching and resolve cash exceptions with the appropriate custodian bank and working as part of a team to ensure actioned timely.
• You're a self starter who utilize resources and can follow protocols and procedures autonomously.
• Leaders within the business look to you to provide exception status reports to business partners.
• You're the daily support that fosters strong relationships with fund accounting and custodian banks.
• You identify, participate and encourage the team’s participation in development of cross-divisional business initiatives.
• Assist with research, trouble shooting, escalation and resolution for more complex activity, discrepancies or wide spread production issues.
• You prepare, analyze and review various daily/ weekly/ monthly/ adhoc oversight reviews and management reports.
• You a key contributor to positive workplace and shared success.
• You're personal ownership and commitment drives accurate and timely reconciliations and exception resolution
• You provide timely customer service to internal and external business partners.
• You will be communicating, coordinating and relationship building with the onshore & offshore teams.

We are focused on making our financial expertise broadly accessible and effective in helping people live the lives they want. We're 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 established an Ireland presence in 1996 and currently employ 1000 staff across IT and shared services, with offices in Dublin (City West) and Galway (Parkmore East).

Our workspace encourages fresh ideas, creative thinking and rewards visionary, passionate individuals. We pride ourselves on a culture that allows you to share, collaborate and be yourself in a highly dynamic and inclusive environment.

We place a high value on how your individual differences contribute to the our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital or family status, membership of the traveller community or disability status.

For information about working at Fidelity, visit www.fidelityinvestments.ie.