Director, Global Financial Controls CoE

Job Description:

IT Audit Director – Global Financial Controls Center of Excellence

The Role:

Are you ready to make an impact? If you are passionate about developing talent, cultivating meaningful relationships, partnering with senior leaders, storytelling, and strengthening our financial controls environment, we would love to talk with you! This is your chance to join a world class financial controls function with a leader in the financial services industry.

The GFC IT Audit Director is a high visibility leadership role that delivers significant value to the business. You will lead multiple engagement teams to assess key risks and controls supporting Fidelity’s financial controls environment through integrated complex audits and advisory reviews over select strategic initiatives. Specifically, this role will be key in supporting modernization initiatives, including emerging technologies and system implementations, launch of new products and services to ensure a strong controls environment. Based on experience, candidates will be assessed at the Director or Sr. Manager level, and this role will report to the Head of the Global Financial Controls CoE.

The Expertise and Skills You Bring

Play an integral role as part of GFC’s senior leadership team and through your advanced understanding of IT governance frameworks, Internal Controls over Financial Reporting, and Accounting concepts/standards. Lead and coach associates, including other people managers, to their full potential. Enhance organizational maturity, introduce best practices and develop meaningful relationships with senior stakeholders.

• Bachelor’s Degree or above in relevant fields (e.g., Information Technology, Accounting, Finance)
• 10+ years of experience leading and executing IT audits, IT SOX (ITGC, ITACs, & IPEs) and consulting engagements leveraging relevant IT governance frameworks (e.g., COBIT, NIST CSF, ISO 27001/2)
• Professional certification CISA or CISSP highly desired. Other relevant certifications CPA, CA, or CIA
• Proven ability to design, assess, and implement financial controls during large-scale ERP or financial system rollouts
• Skilled in identifying implementation-related risks (e.g., data migration, system configuration, user access)
• Experience developing risk mitigation strategies and embedding controls into project plans
• Experience with automation, control digitization, and leveraging analytics to monitor control effectiveness
• Experience leveraging AI/ML for continuous control monitoring, anomaly detection, and fraud prevention
• Strong interest in upskilling and coaching non-IT auditors to effectively assess ITACs and IPEs
• Familiarity with financial statement audits, ICFR, and collaborating with financial auditors on integrated audits
• Blend of Public Accounting and Internal Audit experience highly desirable
• Familiarity and proven track record of driving change within complex / matrixed corporate environments
• Exceptional leadership and master relationship builder with proven influencing and people management skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills to present and lead conversations with senior management
• Strong project management skills, ability to manage competing priorities and workload
• Financial services industry experience desirable

The Team

The Global Financial Controls Center of Excellence (GFC-CoE) is an enterprise-wide function that supports the Finance strategic objective of ensuring a strong financial controls environment. The function provides reasonable assurance over the key processes that impact Fidelity’s financial statements. Specifically, the GFC-CoE evaluates financial controls through integrated reviews of key business units including Workplace Investing, Institutional, Wealth & Retail Brokerage, Fund and Brokerage Operations & Technology, Asset Management, Corporate Services, Fidelity Insurance Group, International sites, and advisory reviews over strategic initiatives.

Company Overview

Fidelity Investments is a privately held company with a mission to strengthen the financial well-being of our clients. We help people invest and plan for their future. We assist companies and non-profit organizations in delivering benefits to their employees. And we provide institutions and independent advisors with investment and technology solutions to help invest their own clients’ money.  

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 you