Director, Pre-Hire Vetting & Background Investigations

Fidelity Investments Inc.; Westlake (TX); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Fidelity Investments Inc. is seeking a Director to lead the Background Investigations team, shaping strategy and day-to-day operations across enterprise partners including Talent Acquisition, Legal, Risk, IT, and Procurement.

You will champion best practices for associate vetting and drive improvements across complex systems. You will collaborate on cross-functional committees and help design a formal onboarding and training program while embedding the leader across investigative pods to

Qualifications

• 12-15 years of strategy, operations, or cross-functional business experience.
• Management and coaching expertise, from entry level to people managers.
• Exceptional verbal and written communication, presentation, and analytical skills; executive briefing experience preferred (L1, L2, L3).
• Demonstrated expertise in investigative analysis and techniques or a strong desire to build investigative skillsets and learn our proprietary methodologies.
• Exceptional relationship management and partnership building experience.
• Track record of managing a portfolio of work with diverse sensitivities and priority levels; ability to quickly diagnose and navigate sensitive organizational matters.
• Experience building new programs and/or comfort working within ambiguity.

Responsibilities

• Provide outstanding leadership and advocacy for the Background Investigation team
• Foster strong partnerships with stakeholder across the firm
• Identify opportunities to improve our current ways of working across Fidelity
• Implement transformational upgrades to modernize the team’s investigative process and technology
• Evaluating the effectiveness of our vendor partners, contingency planning strategy and evaluate the ROI in our investments

Skills

Strategy & ops

People management

Executive communication

Investigative analytics

Stakeholder mgmt

Portfolio management

Program development

Job description

Fidelity Investments Inc. is seeking a Director to lead the Background Investigations team, shaping strategy and day-to-day operations across enterprise partners including Talent Acquisition, Legal, Risk, IT, and Procurement.

You will champion best practices for associate vetting and drive improvements across complex systems. You will collaborate on cross-functional committees and help design a formal onboarding and training program while embedding the leader across investigative pods to