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Boston, Ma, Us

Cambridge, Ma, Us

Passionate and results-driven compensation professional with a proven track record of strategically managing global compensation and financial initiatives. Experienced in collaborating with cross-functional teams and business leaders to develop and execute compensation programs that align with company objectives. Adept at fostering relationships, conducting comprehensive research, and ensuring compliance with legal and market standards.

Cambridge, Ma, Us

• The People Technology and Analytics team’s vision is to build a best-in-class employee and candidate HR technology experience that supports our People priorities and drives seamless, simplified experiences across all platforms. Our ambition is to build and define a best-in-class HR tech stack (SAP SuccessFactors / PowerBI) that seamlessly and elegantly supports Pega as we scale. We aim to effectively and ethically leverage people data to deliver real business value. Led a team of 8 employees.

Boston, Ma, Us

The team uncovers data-driven insights to better attract, develop, motivate, and retain Fidelity’s most important asset, the people. I served as an active partner with HR and functional leaders to perform research and analyses on a broad spectrum of people issues. Examples include employee performance, growth, associate experience, engagement, compensation, and retention. I have strong quantitative skills, and experience working across a variety of people areas.• Partnered with senior team to identify, analyze, and accelerate our people strategies for both growth and efficiency• Understand and communicate insights on the impact of competitive industry movements on our business• Developed insights and strategic perspectives on new opportunities, drive the analyses, present the results, and collaborated with teams to develop action plans• Supported the Human Resources Function processes for multi-year plan, quarterly business reviews, and executive scorecards

Boston, Ma, Us

The Associate Experience Program was designed to improve the associate experience in targeted areas and set the course for continual process improvements and collaboration across the firm. My team's area of focus was to identify and improve the most critical elements of a great associate experience in order to attract, develop and retain the best talent at Fidelity. We worked on initiatives that spanned the Fidelity organization and provided the next generation of programs, benefits and support to ultimately deliver a great associate experience across the firm.I was responsible for creating business cases and data requirements for cross-organizational initiatives, operating metrics and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), lead cross company pulse survey, and activity analysis.Key Programs:• Analyzed and built the business case for Paid Time Off, and Maternity (6 to 16 weeks) and Parental (2 to 6 weeks) leave polices. Served as subject matter expert for financials and execution• Voluntary Buyout Opportunity (VBO), helping associates who've been at Fidelity for a long time transition to their next phase of their lifeActive participant in the Fidelity Leader Lab program comprised of a group of 40 Fidelity associates across the U.S. collaborating on group projects and leadership research.

Boston, Ma, Us

I was responsible for providing business partners with subject matter expertise, guidance and tools in order to facilitate the effective use of the college channel. The primary focus of this role was technology, reporting, metrics and communications/relationship management. I provided the metrics and technology essential to track and measure the success of the College Relations function.Major Responsibilities:-Served as Fidelity’s subject matter expert with regard to college recruitment; developed competitive intelligence capability and created capability for cross-company information sharing in support of college relations.-Influenced Senior Leaders across Fidelity to support the growth and funding of college hiring programs.-Led the strategy development and implementation for College Recruiting technology and reporting, including operational and strategic ownership of College Relation’s CRM system.-Frequently represents Fidelity at various events (e.g. industry conferences and recruiting activities).-Led the Fidelity Target School evaluation process and conducts extensive target school research with regard to curriculum, placement statistics, salary data, and demographics.-Created executive level presentations, reporting, and analysis to provide critical information that supports the development of strategic college hiring programs across the firm.

Worcester, Ma, Us

-Organized day-to-day activities and operations of the team, which included running practices, managing games, and player mentoring.-Enforced safety, school policies, code of conduct and ethics.

Boston, Ma, Us

-Led browser compatibility and testing for a widely used Fidelity trading site.-Tested virtual machine compatibility with internal Fidelity sites.-Proposed creative ideas for mobile application, and worked closely with the application.-Managed internal reporting for IWS client usage on Fidelity WealthCentral platform.

Boston, Ma, Us

-Reorganized the entire portfolio of financial reports generated by Fidelity WealthCentral for upward compatibility with a significant WebFOCUS Server upgrade. -Achieved significant improvements to financial reports utilized by Fidelity's IWS clientele, most notably the Daily Trade Blotter.-Migrated Fidelity IWS' test assets to an updated release of their test management tool, QualityCenter 10.0.-Transitioned user acceptance test scenarios and defect reports.

Bachelor Of Arts, Marketing, Minor Information Technology

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