## **Job Description:**
## **The Role**
As Senior Legal Counsel, you will provide legal support to Fidelity companies
and in-house contract groups on a range of buy-side and sell-side
transactional matters.
## **The Expertise and Skills You Bring**
* J.D. required.
* Strong academic background.
* A minimum of 7 years of proven experience.
* In-house experience and relevant business experience in procurement or sell-side transactions in financial services preferred.
* Significant transactional experience required, with experience with technology or health care matters a plus.
* Law firm experience preferred.
* Outstanding judgment and range. You will need to excel at quickly analyzing complex legal and business issues in an array of substantive areas.
* Highly organized, self-motivated and self-directed. You need to be able to work efficiently, under pressure, with varying degrees of supervision, and manage projects with competing deadlines.
* Excellent analytical, writing, and oral communication skills, adaptive to and effective for different audiences.
* Outstanding analytical, advocacy, and interpersonal skills, as well as the ability to advise and influence senior executives and professionals from diverse businesses.
* Natural collaborative approach in devising pragmatic and creative solutions across a variety of issues in a dynamic environment!
## **The Value You Deliver**
* Providing practical and reasoned business counsel and advice on a variety of transactional matters.
* Drafting, reviewing and negotiating transactional documents.
* Applying, evaluating and refining the internal Fidelity transactional standards and practices.
* Participating in cross-functional working teams.
* Forming working relationships with your business and legal colleagues.
## **The Team**
This position is part of the Fidelity Legal Department’s Transactional Center
of Excellence (TCOE), a team of professionals providing centralized legal
support for the broad array of Fidelity’s businesses, including those contract
support groups located throughout Fidelity.
## **Certifications:**
**Company Overview**
Fidelity Investments is a privately held company with a mission _to strengthen
the financial well-being of our clients._ We help people invest and plan for
their future. We assist companies and non-profit organizations in delivering
benefits to their employees. And we provide institutions and independent
advisors with investment and technology solutions to help invest their own
clients' money.
**
Join Us**
At Fidelity, you'll find endless opportunities to build a meaningful career
that positively impacts peoples' lives, including yours. You can take
advantage of flexible benefits that support you through every stage of your
career, empowering you to thrive at work and at home. Honored with a Glassdoor
Employees' Choice Award, we have been recognized by our employees as a Best
Place to Work in 2022. And you don't need a finance background to succeed at
Fidelity—we offer a range of opportunities for learning so you can build the
career you've always imagined.
Many of our associates are continuing to work remotely temporarily due to
COVID-19. When Fidelity employees eventually return to the office, our goal is
for most people to work flexibly in a way that balances both personal and
business needs with time onsite and offsite through what we're calling
"Dynamic Working."
We invite you to **Find Your Fidelity** at fidelitycareers.com.
Fidelity Investments is an equal opportunity employer. We believe that the
most effective way to attract, develop and retain a diverse workforce is to
build an enduring culture of inclusion and belonging.
Fidelity will reasonably accommodate applicants with disabilities who need
adjustments to participate in the application or interview process. To
initiate a request for an accommodation, contact the HR Accommodation Team by
sending an email to accommodations @fmr.com, or by calling 800-835-5099,
prompt 2, option 3.