Senior Finance Associate - Tax

About the Finance Department

Finance leads Bridgewater’s financial strategy and serves as a strategic advisor to businesses across the firm. We partner with leaders to translate strategy into financially sound plans, evaluate growth opportunities, and make informed decisions about how to allocate capital. Our work builds financial resilience and drives long-term shareholder value, supported by rigorous analysis, reporting, and controls. We are also transforming how Finance operates, using AI and automation to deliver faster insights and focus more of our expertise on the decisions that shape the firm’s future.

About the role:

Bridgewater’s Tax Department is looking for a determined and agile Tax Senior Finance Associate to join a team of problem solvers who handle the compliance and reporting matters described below and who are seeking to bring transformative ideas for process improvements. The Senior Finance Associate will be a key player in the management of tax compliance deadlines and will actively collaborate with senior professionals across the firm to ensure Bridgewater is meetings its goals. Do you have a passion for both professional and personal evolution? Join us!

You will drive the following responsibilities:   

• Managing and reviewing federal, state, and local tax compliance and related reporting
• Providing technical expertise, knowledge, and research to address complex tax issues
• Preparing and reviewing tax accounting
• Collaborating with third-party return preparers
• Gathering financial information and building work papers for tax reporting
• Maintaining the firm’s relationships with outside tax advisors
• Designing and facilitating tax projects

The anticipated onsite requirement for this role is 4 days per week at our Westport, CT campus. 

Minimum Qualifications 

• 5-8+ years of tax compliance experience with pass-throughs, partnerships, and corporations at the federal, state and local levels, and with ASC 740
• The highest level of integrity and respect for confidential information
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to work both independently and collaboratively 
• Ability to communicate complex tax matters to non-technical audiences
• Proficiency with MS Office, including advanced Excel skills
• Bachelor’s Degree required, CPA and/or JD preferred

About Bridgewater

Bridgewater Associates is a global macro investment firm, founded in 1975, whose mission is to develop a fundamental, cause-and-effect understanding of how markets and economies work—and translate that understanding into insights, returns, and solutions that help the world’s leading institutional investors solve their most important investment challenges. 

Over five decades, we have codified our fundamental understanding into a systematic investment process—integrating human judgment with machine intelligence with the goal of applying our thinking consistently, testing it against reality, and continuously improving decision-making over time. We believe this has created a unique platform for applying AI within our process, positioning us at the frontier of integrating technology with investment decision-making. 

In financial markets—where reality is constantly evolving and outcomes are uncertain—sustained excellence requires continuous learning and improvement. Our culture—anchored in radical truth and transparency—helps us learn faster. 

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Our Culture

Bridgewater’s culture is anchored in the pursuit of excellence—tied directly to our mission. In financial markets, where the base case is failure and reality is constantly evolving, winning requires continuous learning and improvement. Truth is our most essential tool for improvement, and transparency helps us get closer to truth because it places many eyes on our decisions, problems, and mistakes. By understanding reality clearly, we can identify the gap between where we are and where we want to be—and use that knowledge to learn and get better. Our system that supports this way of being is an idea meritocracy, where we commit to finding and rewarding the best ideas regardless of hierarchy.

Operating in these ways is hard. Finding truth and learning through it is inherently a high-friction cycle. It’s possible because we share a few core values: a commitment to honesty, high ownership, deeply meaningful work and relationships, and building Bridgewater as a big tent where vast differences are welcomed. These values create the common denominator that binds us together in good times and bad.

Benefits

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, retirement benefits, paid leave, and other fringe benefits. Find more information about Bridgewater’s benefits on our website.

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

Sponsorship

Please note that we do not provide immigration sponsorship for this position.  

Compensation

The wage range for this role is $180,000-$270,000 inclusive of base salary and discretionary target bonus. The expected base salary for this role is between 80% - 90% of this wage range.   

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.

Bridgewater Associates, LP is an Equal Opportunity Employer