Senior Finance Associate, Business Planning & Analysis

Senior Finance Associate, Business Planning & Analysis

Westport, CT & New York City, NY

About 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.

Explore more information about Bridgewater on our website here.

Our Culture

Our culture is anchored in excellence, meaning constant improvement, and it is deeply tied to our mission. Because markets are objective, competitive, and getting smarter everyday, we need to keep rapidly improving to have any chance of beating them. Truth is our most essential tool for engaging with the markets and constantly improving because once you know what's true about your problems and opportunities, you can determine how to get better.

Valuing truth means being transparent about your decision-making and mistakes, giving and receiving feedback with humility, and fighting for the best answers over hierarchy, ego, or self‑interest. Operating this way is hard – it's only possible because we build meaning in our work and relationships. This meaning comes from the audacity of the mission, and the joy of working alongside people who make you a better version of yourself.

The culture, like Bridgewater itself, is always evolving. In 1997 our founder Ray Dalio wrote down his lessons, starting with a Philosophy Statement which remains our foundation. This later evolved into a set of 300+ Principles. In 2022, when Ray transitioned the company, we re‑underwrote several of those principles and evolved others, with a specific focus on Meritocracy. Today the culture sits, alongside our people, as our most important edge.

When we get it right, it’s the engine that powers everything else.

About Your Role

In this role, you will become a core finance partner to a major part of the business, helping leaders understand the financial implications of their decisions and shaping how the firm evaluates and executes opportunities. You will take on meaningful analytical responsibility from day one, work directly with senior stakeholders, and contribute to decisions that materially impact the business. This role offers a steep learning curve and accelerated development for someone motivated to build strong financial judgment, ownership, and influence early in their career.

You will drive the following responsibilities:

• Serve as the primary finance partner for a business unit, managing the end‑to‑end relationship between finance and a key area of the firm.
• Continuously evolve how finance supports decision‑making by improving clarity, rigor, and relevance for operators and leaders.
• Play a central role in budgeting and planning, ensuring resources are aligned with business priorities and strategic objectives.
• Support the full capital deployment lifecycle by helping shape business cases for new initiatives, evaluating trade‑offs, and assessing strategic or operational shifts.
• Maintain accountability for how capital is deployed through data‑driven analysis, tracking, and ongoing dialogue with business partners to ensure spend aligns with intended outcomes.
• Build clear, well‑structured financial analyses and models that inform leadership decisions, proactively investigate key questions, and translate insights into actionable recommendations.
• Create concise materials and narratives that communicate the “so what” behind the numbers, enabling senior stakeholders to make confident, informed decisions.
• Act as a financial steward by bringing discipline, transparency, and rigor to how the firm allocates resources in support of long‑term value creation.

Minimum Qualifications

• 2–4 years of analytical experience in roles…