Senior Finance Associate, Accounting

About Bridgewater
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.
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Our Culture
Our culture is anchored in excellence, meaning constant improvement, and it is deeply tied to our mission. Because markets are objective, competitive, and getting smarter everyday, we need to keep rapidly improving to have any chance of beating them. Truth is our most essential tool for engaging with the markets and constantly improving because once you know what's true about your problems and opportunities, you can determine how to get better. Valuing truth means being transparent about your decision-making and mistakes, giving and receiving feedback with humility, and fighting for the best answers over hierarchy, ego, or self-interest. Operating this way is hard – it's only possible because we build meaning in our work and relationships. This meaning comes from the audacity of the mission, and the joy of working alongside people who make you a better version of yourself. The culture, like Bridgewater itself, is always evolving. In 1997 our founder Ray Dalio wrote down his lessons, starting with a Philosophy Statement which remains our foundation. This later evolved into a set of 300+ Principles. In 2022, when Ray transitioned the company, we re-underwrote several of those principles and evolved others, with a specific focus on Meritocracy. Today the culture sits, alongside our people, as our most important edge. When we get it right, it’s the engine that powers everything else.
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The Finance Department
Finance leads Bridgewater’s financial strategy and serves as a strategic advisor to businesses across the firm. We partner with leaders to translate strategy into financially sound plans, evaluate growth opportunities, and make informed decisions about how to allocate capital. Our work builds financial resilience and drives long-term shareholder value, supported by rigorous analysis, reporting, and controls. We are also transforming how Finance operates, using AI and automation to deliver faster insights and focus more of our expertise on the decisions that shape the firm’s future.
About the Role:
As a Senior Finance Associate on Bridgewater's Corporate Accounting team, your primary responsibility will be the accounting and reporting of the Company’s expanding foreign operations, reporting to the Controller responsible for that area. Additionally, you will provide leverage to the Head of Accounting Policy and Reporting by performing technical accounting analyses and supporting the financial reporting process for the Company’s domestic entities. You will help lead how we use process change and technology to make reporting and accounting sharper, faster and better controlled. This is a highly visible role that will put you in direct contact with external auditors, third-party service providers, and stakeholders across the Finance Department. You will develop a diversified skill set and breadth of knowledge that are highly valued across the firm.
You will drive the following responsibilities:
Under the supervision of the Controller responsible for the accounting and reporting of our foreign subsidiaries:
Project manage the annual audits of these entities’ statutory financial statements, which are prepared under local statutory GAAP (IFRS based)
Serve as a primary point of contact for the external auditors, resolving requests and comments directly where appropriate and coordinating input from others across the organization as necessary
Ensure that transactions are accounted for (both technically and operationally) and reported on correctly. For subsidiaries in which we use external service providers to prepare monthly and annual reporting packages (trial balance, account reconciliations, balance sheet, profit and loss statement, cash flow statement, and related schedules), review their work critically for accuracy, completeness and appropriate accounting treatment and ensure it is appropriately loaded into our general ledger
Field questions from and proactively raise accounting issues with the Business Planning and Analysis team responsible for our foreign subsidiaries
Actively incorporate AI tooling to enable and streamline processes, helping to push the efficiency of existing work streams while reimagining how they get done
While the accounting and reporting of our foreign operations will be your primary responsibility, you will also have the opportunity to support the Head of Accounting Policy and Reporting with accounting policy and reporting needs, such as performing technical accounting analyses of new transactions (US GAAP), creating new accounting policies and/or updating existing policies, and adopting/implementing new accounting standards. Further, you may be asked to support the quarterly and annual financial reporting process for our domestic operations.
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