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Job Title Audit Senior Manager - Digital Assets

Note: Fidelity will not provide immigration sponsorship for this position.

The Role

Are you looking to grow your business and auditing skills, deepen your knowledge of financial services, and solve complex problems at the nexus of technology and finance? As an Audit Senior Manager supporting Fidelity's digital asset initiatives, you will provide independent, objective audit and advisory services that help manage risk, protect customers, and enhance business performance. You will drive positive change by assessing and improving control environments across custody, trading, operations, and supporting technology for digital assets.

The Expertise and Skills You Bring

• BA/BS in Accounting, Finance, Information Systems, or related field.

• Professional audit certifications (e.g., CPA, CIA, CISA) strongly preferred.

• 7-10 years of external and/or internal audit or related risk/control experience.

• Experience within the digital asset/cryptocurrency ecosystem (e.g., custodians, exchanges, blockchain-based financial services).

• Working knowledge of digital-asset lifecycle risks, including wallet operations and key management (e.g., segregation of duties, dual control; awareness of HSM/MPC/multisig concepts), custody models, and on-/off-chain transaction flows and reconciliations.

• Ability to manage multiple engagements and lead team priorities and workload.

• In-depth knowledge of audit practices, tools, techniques, concepts, and trends (including ICFR/SOX and third-party/SOC 1/SOC 2 considerations).

• Team-oriented leader who collaborates constructively to achieve goals and provide thought leadership.

• Strong problem-solving, analytical, and critical-thinking skills.

• Commitment to an innovative, collaborative, and digital working style.

• Excellent presentation, written, and interpersonal communication skills.

• Hands-on work style and can-do attitude with a strong bias for action.

• (Nice to have) Awareness of relevant regulatory themes (e.g., BSA/AML/OFAC and U.S. expectations around digital asset custody and governance).

The Team

Our Audit Senior Manager will lead multiple complex audits end-to-end in support of Fidelity's digital asset businesses and other areas of Asset Management. You will determine scope, oversee testing, review workpapers, and coordinate with risk and compliance partners to deliver high-quality results through a team of multi-disciplined auditors. Working with Group Leadership, you will align audit objectives to strategy, deliver impactful outcomes, and contribute to domain and department initiatives.

• Partner with business and technology leaders to understand complex functions across custody, trading, operations, and supporting platforms.

• Review end-to-end process maps and technology workflows (including wallet operations and key-control touchpoints) to ensure risks and controls are comprehensively captured.

• Ensure project scopes focus on the highest-risk areas and include thoughtful test suites to identify control gaps and improvement opportunities-covering on-/off-chain reconciliations, access/IAM, change management, incident response, and third-party/VASP risk where applicable.

• Collaborate with the Team Leader to prioritize workload and resources; anticipate and resolve blockers to progress.

• Perform and review audit test work, including data analysis, control testing, and clear documentation of results; where appropriate, use data analytics and blockchain tools/explorers to enhance coverage.

• Leverage audit automation tools and analytics to increase efficiency and precision in evaluating operations and systems.

• Direct the use of strategic and data-analytics techniques to more effectively identify and evidence control deficiencies.

• Review audit reports to ensure issues and management action plans are clearly described with business/enterprise implications.

• Lead discussions with business/technology management to communicate findings and influence pragmatic, sustainable remediation.

• Coach and mentor associates of all levels on audit execution, digital-asset concepts, and stakeholder engagement.

• Build strong, trust-based relationships with audit teams and business partners; act as a credible challenger while enabling responsible innovation.

Fidelity's Onsite Working Model
Fidelity is transitioning to a full-time onsite working model through a phased rollout across regions and roles. Currently, some roles and locations require 100% onsite presence, while others require less. Onsite expectations are likely to evolve as the rollout continues. This transition does not apply to fully remote roles.

Please be advised that Fidelity's business is governed by the provisions of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, the Investment Company Act of 1940, ERISA, numerous state laws governing securities, investment and retirement-related financial activities and the rules and regulations of numerous self-regulatory organizations, including FINRA, among others. Those laws and regulations may restrict Fidelity from hiring and/or associating with individuals with certain Criminal Histories.