About the role As a Finance Associate, Accounting, you will be a member of Bridgewater's Corporate Accounting team responsible for the various responsibilities outlined below. You will develop a diversified skill set and breadth of knowledge that are highly valued across the Finance Department.
You will drive the following responsibilities: - Support the Corporate Accounting team with fulfilling monthly close deliverables
- Prepare financial information for internal stakeholders
- Manage various aspects of the financial audit, which will involve direct interaction with the external auditors as well as with other areas within the Bridgewater organization
- Responsible for the execution of accounting processes over various balance sheet accounts
- Support ad hoc requests as necessary
- Process and controls improvement:
- Proactively explore how process change and technology can streamline our operational accounting and strengthen our control environment - critically evaluating our existing internal processes to find where they are manual, fragile or redundant, and assessing potential external tools and solutions
- Build the case for the changes worth making and see them through from idea to implementation, partnering with stakeholders across Finance and with our technology and vendor teams
You will be a click for the role if you: - Possess an exceptional ownership mentality, willing to roll up your sleeves and problem solve
- Show strong critical thinking skills, with a natural curiosity to ask "why" and question the status quo
- Have a genuine appetite for rethinking how the work gets done - questioning processes and tools and pushing for better, better-controlled ways to account and report, rather than settling for incremental tweaks
- Enjoy making sense out of white-space and ambiguous situations
- Think analytically, logically and agilely; can quickly iterate in a fast-paced environment and high-performance culture
- Excel at relationship building across stakeholders at all levels of the company
- Possess excellent independent thinking, ask questions and take the initiative to improve current processes and metrics
- Are highly organized, reliable and detail oriented, with an eye for spotting and correcting errors
- Use AI fluently in your work while bringing enough technical depth of your own to review its output for accuracy and completeness
We are looking for candidates with the following minimum qualifications: - Bachelor's degree or higher in accounting, with a strong academic track record
- 1-3 years of accounting or audit experience; Big 4 accounting firm background a strong plus
- CPA, or actively working toward the certification
- Advanced Excel skills
- Experience working with AI tooling, paired with the subject matter expertise to review AI-generated output for accuracy and completeness (we currently use Claude, though our tooling may change over time)
- Experience with other financial systems such as Workday, Office Connect, and Workiva
Physical Requirements The onsite requirement for this role is four days per week at our Westport, CT campus.
Compensation The wage range for this role is $120,000 - $165,000 inclusive of base salary and discretionary target bonus. The expected base salary for this role is between 80% - 90% of this wage range.
