Associate

BlackRock • San Francisco, CA

11d • Hybrid

About The Position

About this role Company: BlackRock Financial Management, Inc. Job Title: Associate Location: 400 Howard St San Francisco, CA 94105 Job Duties: Own relationships with client’s senior management (CTO, CIO, COO, Heads of Desks) to understand their business objectives and needs and help them use Aladdin expertise to achieve their firm’s goals. Keep updated on regulatory and operational industry trends to help clients stay ahead of changing times. Propagate client narratives to senior management internally. Lead harvesting opportunities at clients by coordinating across product and sales teams and manage pipeline. Utilize programming languages including UNIX Shell to run scripts for system operations and risk and performance reporting, overnight and intraday compliance, and operational tasks. Manage client price, risk and analytical databases using SQL programming language. Perform ad-hoc special analyses in response to market events, new business needs and implementation projects. Assist clients in leveraging Aladdin to its fullest across the entire trade and portfolio lifecycle. Serve as a subject matter knowledge lead on multiple Aladdin workflows and processes. The role demands technical proficiency and a robust comprehension of Aladdin technology applications. Understand the client’s business challenges and propose innovative solutions that leverage Aladdin to drive value and adoption. Lead internal stakeholders’ discussions to guide and align the development of our product by bringing the voice of the client to the table. Engage with clients to define key strategic and tactical initiatives, leveraging your internal network to oversee and execute cross-functional solutions.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Business Administration, Finance, Economics, or related field and 60 months of experience in job offered, Financial Product Sales, or related occupation.
• ALT REQUIREMENTS: Master's degree or foreign equivalent in Business Administration, Finance, Economics, or related field and 36 months of experience in job offered, Financial Product Sales Manager, or related occupation.
• Position requires three years of experience in the following: Analyzing market trends to build relationships with client teams, including senior management
• Applying equity, fixed income and derivative markets and analytics to assist client use cases
• Conveying concepts to clients, including security and portfolio analytics, stress testing results, optimization workflows, and performance attribution details
• Coordinating resources across multiple functional areas to deploy new models, analytics, and reporting across a broad range of products and investment styles
• Utilizing buy-side investment management workflows to add value to client’s business objectives and needs
• SQL and Unix
• API’s
• VBA
• BI Tools including Tableau and Power BI

Responsibilities

• Own relationships with client’s senior management (CTO, CIO, COO, Heads of Desks) to understand their business objectives and needs and help them use Aladdin expertise to achieve their firm’s goals.
• Keep updated on regulatory and operational industry trends to help clients stay ahead of changing times.
• Propagate client narratives to senior management internally.
• Lead harvesting opportunities at clients by coordinating across product and sales teams and manage pipeline.
• Utilize programming languages including UNIX Shell to run scripts for system operations and risk and performance reporting, overnight and intraday compliance, and operational tasks.
• Manage client price, risk and analytical databases using SQL programming language.
• Perform ad-hoc special analyses in response to market events, new business needs and implementation projects.
• Assist clients in leveraging Aladdin to its fullest across the entire trade and portfolio lifecycle.
• Serve as a subject matter knowledge lead on multiple Aladdin workflows and processes.
• Understand the client’s business challenges and propose innovative solutions that leverage Aladdin to drive value and adoption.
• Lead internal stakeholders’ discussions to guide and align the development of our product by bringing the voice of the client to the table.
• Engage with clients to define key strategic and tactical initiatives, leveraging your internal network to oversee and execute cross-functional solutions.

Benefits

• employees are eligible for an annual discretionary bonus, and benefits including healthcare, leave benefits, and retirement benefits.
• strong retirement plan
• tuition reimbursement
• comprehensive healthcare
• support for working parents
• Flexible Time Off (FTO)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees