Finance Associate, Business Planning & Analysis

Finance Associate, Business Planning & Analysis

Westport, CT & New York City

Bridgewater Associates is a premier asset management firm, focused on delivering unique insight and partnership for the most sophisticated global institutional investors. Our investment process is driven by a tireless pursuit to understand how the world's markets and economies work – using cutting edge technology to validate and execute on timeless and universal investment principles.

Founded in 1975, we are a community of independent thinkers who share a commitment for excellence. By fostering a culture of openness, transparency, and inclusion, we strive to unlock the most complex questions in investment strategy, management, and corporate culture.

The Business Planning and Analysis team serves as the strategic financial partner to Bridgewater's business leaders. This team of elite finance professionals ensures that department leaders across BW have a holistic understanding of the financial impact of business decisions by engaging stakeholders on unique real-time analysis of all relevant financial data. The team is responsible for owning the story behind the numbers and using that knowledge to help shape business decisions.

The Business Planning and Analysis team also offers a critical, independent perspective; ensuring each dollar maximizes business outcomes and ultimately shareholder value.

The Finance Associate will be a critical driver of Finance's strategic partnership with Bridgewater's business leaders. The Finance Associate holds a clear story around the numbers supporting both the strategic projects that shape the business and the management and financial reporting and processes that drive it. Putting together this story requires deep and high-level engagement with leaders across the company to understand business goals, and the independent thinking to engage those business leaders on questions around their metrics.

The Finance Associate must operate critical financial processes, safeguard BW's financial resources to maximize shareholder value, while simultaneously evolving processes to manage risks, improve financial insights and inform business outcomes more effectively. Above all, the role centers on strategic partnership: shaping decisions before they are made and helping leaders deploy resources against their highest-conviction opportunities.

You will drive the following responsibilities:

• Partner with business leaders to help identify and shape strategic opportunities
• Pressure-test unit economics, pricing, and capacity before the business commits resources
• Model compensation plans and help structure deals before they are signed
• Track capital deployment deal-by-deal from commitment through realization, and use AI to make approvals and controls faster and sharper
• Own end-to-end partnership between finance and a particular business unit of the company, including continuously evolving the way that finance provides strategic value to the business
• Drive yearly financial planning process in partnership with senior leaders at the company, including shaping and producing a multi-year budget reflective of business priorities
• Craft board-level communications on high-ROI investment cases for the company
• Influence business decisions through proactively driving unique analyses and shaping the forecast; including comprehensive modeling to inform decision-making
• Take financial analysis to the next level by bringing leadership into their financial narrative – communicating the story around the numbers including running financial conversations, preparing presentations and communications to leadership, and having a seat at the table in financial conversations
• Serve as an independent financial control, ensuring that each dollar is accounted for and spent wisely

You will be a click for the role if:

• Want to operate at the heart of one of the world's leading asset management firms, and are energized by using AI to redefine what finance can do
• Possess an ownership mentality with a track record of driving impact through creative problem solving, and owning solutions from ideation to execution
• Think analytically, logically, and agilely; can…