Director, Digital Assets Accounting
Fidelity Investments · Boston, United States +2 · 2mo ago
Job Description:
Director, Digital Assets Accounting
Note: Fidelity will not provide immigration sponsorship for this position.
The Role
As Director of Digital Asset Accounting, you will provide strategic and operational leadership across the accounting function supporting Fidelity’s digital asset investment products. You will oversee all aspects of accounting operations, ensuring accurate, timely, and controlled delivery of core processes including digital asset pricing, books and records maintenance, NAV production, and financial reporting.
You will lead teams responsible for supporting blockchain-enabled investment products, with oversight spanning both on-chain and off-chain accounting activities, including wallet and custodian reconciliations, digital asset valuation, and lifecycle event processing (e.g., forks, airdrops, staking rewards). The role requires strong ownership of daily deliverables in parallel with driving forward-looking initiatives that enhance scalability, automation, and control.
Operating with a high degree of autonomy, you will partner closely with senior stakeholders across Accounting, Pricing, Technology, Product, Custody, and Risk to ensure operational readiness and alignment as new digital asset products and structures are introduced. You will play a key role in evolving the operating model to support a rapidly expanding and increasingly complex digital asset platform.
In addition to leading day-to-day operations, you will drive strategic initiatives focused on modernizing infrastructure, integrating blockchain-derived data into accounting processes, and improving transparency and efficiency across workflows. The role requires the ability to define complex problems, synthesize insights, and deliver recommendations that align with broader business priorities.
The Expertise and Skills You Bring
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, or a related field and 10–12 years of experience in asset management operations, fund accounting, or alternative investment accounting, with significant leadership experience overseeing complex functions and large-scale operational teams
- Experience with Geneva and Geneva World Investor strongly preferred
- Experience supporting digital asset products, crypto funds, or blockchain-based financial instruments strongly preferred; familiarity with derivatives, staking, or yield-generating strategies is a plus
- Understanding of digital asset market structure, including exchanges, custodians, wallets, and blockchain networks, as well as partnership/fund accounting and back-office operations
- Strong analytical, communication, conceptual thinking, and problem-solving capabilities
- Ability to collaborate with team members is necessary
- Presence and judgment to take ownership of responsibilities and encourage well-reasoned recommendations for updates to improve efficiency where applicable
- Strong understanding of financial and accounting principles, including US GAAP, and how accounting outputs support financial statement preparation and shareholder reporting for complex digital asset investment products
- Strategic problem solver with a focus on automation, process optimization, and leveraging data and technology to modernize operations
- Exposure to blockchain data tools (e.g., explorers, analytics platforms) or reconciliation of digital asset transactions preferred
- Familiarity with emerging regulatory and accounting considerations for digital assets is a plus
The Team
In Global Product Solutions (GPS), we’re on a mission to deliver innovative and exceptional product and program solutions from concept through execution. Our team is part of the Fidelity Fund and Investment Operations (FFIO) organization.
As a dedicated Digital Asset Accounting team within GPS, we are focused on building and scaling specialized operational capabilities to support Fidelity’s digital asset product platform, moving beyond a traditional shared service model. This includes books and records maintenance, digital asset pricing, fund and security level performance analysis, financial reporting, and tax work.
The Digital Asset Accounting team provides end-to-end operational support, including daily NAV production, digital asset pricing, blockchain reconciliation, financial reporting, and control oversight. In addition to core delivery, the team plays a critical role in evolving the operating model, ensuring that processes, data, and infrastructure are designed to support a rapidly growing and increasingly complex digital asset product set.
Working across business and technology partners, the team is responsible for integrating blockchain-derived data into accounting workflows, enhancing transparency, strengthening controls, and improving the scalability and efficiency of operations. This includes enabling effective product onboarding, supporting new structures, and ensuring operational readiness across the product lifecycle.
Aligned to broader Digital Assets priorities, the team’s work supports new business capabilities, delivers high-quality outcomes for customers, and advances the infrastructure required to operate digital asset products at scale within Fidelity. #FFIOAlts #FidelityAlts
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.
Placement in the range will vary based on job responsibilities and scope, geographic location, candidate’s relevant experience, and other factors.
Base salary is only part of the total compensation package. Depending on the position and eligibility requirements, the offer package may also include bonus or other variable compensation.
We offer a wide range of benefits to meet your evolving needs and help you live your best life at work and at home. These benefits include comprehensive health care coverage and emotional well-being support, market-leading retirement, generous paid time off and parental leave, charitable giving employee match program, and educational assistance including student loan repayment, tuition reimbursement, and learning resources to develop your career. Note, the application window closes when the position is filled or unposted.
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.