Associate, Index Operations - San Francisco

BlackRock•San Francisco, CA

2d•$132,500 - $162,000•Hybrid

About The Position

BlackRock Index Services (BIS) is responsible for the design, development, and administration of Fixed Income and Multi-Asset indices used by internal and external clients. Our success hinges on producing and supporting pristine data and indices that are disseminated timely and accurately to support our clients. The BIS Index Operations team is responsible for owning the end-to-end daily production, data quality control, and delivery of BlackRock indices across asset classes—Fixed Income and MultiAsset, including rebalances. They ensure 3rd-party data vendors are aligned with accurate data and SLAs, including managing customer concerns through resolution. They also maintain Index Operations procedures and documentations for all product suites, workflows, and quality control mechanisms, and report to senior management with key insights on data and index offerings.

Requirements

BS/BA (or equivalent) or higher with preference to business, technology, or engineering focus.
5-9 years of experience in asset management or financial services with data and operations experience.
Familiarity to Aladdin infrastructure tools and process (Security Master, Green Package, Alpha, BondCalc, PMS, Dashboard, Explore, CRA, PRADA, etc.), is preferred.
Relentless desire for understanding how processes work and entrepreneurial aim to learn new skills and technologies.
Strong attention to details and focus on high quality delivery.
Basic SQL, Python, and Snowflake experience.
Shown ability to work well independently or as part of a team in an innovative, ambitious, and fast-paced environment, run multiple tasks, adapt to change, and work well under tight time restraints.
A reputation as a good communicator and the ability to distill sophisticated concepts and information.
Experience with financial indices and index data attributes.

Nice To Haves

Familiarity to Aladdin infrastructure tools and process (Security Master, Green Package, Alpha, BondCalc, PMS, Dashboard, Explore, CRA, PRADA, etc.), is preferred.

Responsibilities

Quality-control and publish daily index returns and risk analytics through BlackRock’s proprietary Aladdin platform.
Ensure high quality data is delivered in a timely manner to our clients for use in investment management decisions.
Design data quality checks to assess data health and detect deficiencies with our data sources or internal data processes.
Ensure resilience and stability through quality control reviews, unit, regression and user acceptance testing, and level one production support.
Investigate and resolve complex issues and perform ad-hoc analysis of large datasets, while meeting tight deadlines for client work.
Offer high-quality client service and handle inquiries in a timely manner.
Run data reconciliation and reviews to drive the resolution of issues with internal data owners, external vendors and/or the development of solutions document, and track defects in a clear and concise manner.
Understand investment analytics across fixed-income and multi-asset indices to help clients understand and interpret index exposures, and sources of risk and returns.
Project manage new indices through coordination with colleagues across engineering, research, and other partner teams.