Job Application for Campus Finance Associate 2025 at Bridgewater Associates LP

What is 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

Bridgewater’s unique success is the direct result of our unique way of being. We want an idea meritocracy in which meaningful work and meaningful relationships are pursued through radical truth and radical transparency. We require people to be extremely open, air disagreements, test each other’s logic, and view discovering mistakes and weaknesses as a good thing that leads to improvement and innovation. It is by continually striving together for the highest levels of truth and excellence that we create meaningful work and meaningful relationships. Within this culture, Diversity and Inclusion is a top priority because it is essential to finding the best talent in the world, enabling our idea meritocracy, and creating an environment where all types of people can thrive. We have a full-time team as well as affinity networks that work on these issues - If you would like to learn more, please let your Bridgewater recruiter know.

Explore more information about Bridgewater’s culture on our website here.

Finance Function

Bridgewater’s Finance Department seeks to drive sustainable shareholder value by controlling, safeguarding, and optimizing use of the firm’s financial resources. This responsibility is fulfilled by providing strategic partnership, insights and independent perspective along with the delivery of high-quality financial reporting, forecasting and analysis while maintaining effective and efficient operational control. The Finance Function is critical to all facets of Bridgewater’s business; dedicated to continually making the firm better - strategically, financially and operationally.

Our Finance Associate Opportunity

We’re seeking analytical stars who are eager to learn Finance and make an impact. You will use and synthesize data to drive decisions and collaborate with key leaders in and outside the department to influence and shape critical decisions and initiatives that support our businesses across the firm.

With Bridgewater’s culture of meritocracy and continuous evolution, the Finance Associate role is part of an inclusive community that fosters personal and professional development through skills, leadership, and content training as well as cross-pillar projects to hone in on and strengthen individual abilities and skills.

Our Finance Associates

Provide key reporting and analytics support, owning the story and not just generating numbers
Drive critical processes such as financial analysis and reporting, planning/budgeting, capital funding, company valuation, stress testing financial liquidity, etc.
Improve financial management systems and information, contribute to process improvement or savings initiatives, and participate in finance projects
Have the potential to grow into future leaders of the department

Our Search for Candidates

We are looking for candidates who are:

Analytical: Pay attention to detail and have the ability to turn numbers into a story - sorting big from small in data
Affinity: Interested in solving complex problems with new and innovative technology
Problem Solvers: Nimble, goal-oriented, logical thinkers who are also able to see multiple possibilities
Owners: Proactive, reflective, gritty, curious, and not afraid to ask questions

And have:

A 4-year degree from an accredited undergraduate institution with an academic focus or demonstrated interest in finance, accounting, econ, business etc.
Strong academic track record
Evidence of leadership on or outside of campus

Physical Requirements

The anticipated onsite requirement for this role is four days per week at our Westport CT campus.

Compensation

The wage range for this role is $85,000 - 110,000 inclusive of base salary and discretionary target bonus. The expected base salary for this role is between 80% - 90% of this wage range.

Why Choose Bridgewater?

It takes all types to make Bridgewater great. We seek a diverse group of innovative thinkers and push them to engage in rigorous and thoughtful inquiry. We develop people through an honest examination of their abilities and performance, enabling personal growth and professional development. We strive to provide you opportunities that will challenge you and unlock your potential.

In this role, you will grow with us by:

Learning how to build teams that span levels and organizations
Developing rich expertise across a broad set of finance operations problems and principles
Taking ownership of increasingly complex systems and processes.
Taking on oversight and mentorship responsibilities to grow talent as you gain experience.
Opportunities to grow your career across Bridgewater depending on your strengths, weaknesses, and experience.

One of our core priorities at Bridgewater is to enable our employees to build a great life and career, and we believe our benefits are an important extension of that philosophy. As such, currently Bridgewater offers a competitive suite of benefits including:

Health insurance with 100% premium covered and access to additional concierge medical services
401(k) plan with generous employer match
Paid time off, including fully paid parental leave and a competitive PTO package
Workplace flexibility and access to back up childcare
Financial assistance for family building support, including adoption and egg freezing
Workplace wellness, including on-site gyms, free meals and healthy snacks , and meditation rooms
An engaged and active community that includes many company events, affinity networks, and extracurricular interest groups
For a full list of Bridgewater benefits, click here.

Bridgewater reserves the right to change its current benefits program at any time, in a manner that is consistent with applicable federal and state regulation.

This job description is not a contract and confers no contractual rights, privileges, or benefits on any applicant or potential applicant. Bridgewater has the right to change any and all terms of this job description, including, but not limited to, job responsibilities, qualifications and benefits. Nothing in this job description constitutes an offer or guarantee of employment. Please note that we do not provide immigration sponsorship for this position.

Bridgewater Associates, LP is an Equal Opportunity Employer

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