Aladdin Client Transformations, Vice President (Delivery Lead)

BlackRock•New York, NY

20h•$147,500 - $195,000•Hybrid

About The Position

BlackRock’s business is investing on behalf of our clients, from large institutions to parents and grandparents, doctors and teachers who entrust their savings to us. We are committed to our clients—period. Our promise is to offer them the clearest thinking about what to do with their money and the products and services they need to secure a better financial future. That’s why investors of all kinds have made us the world’s largest asset manager, entrusting us with trillions of dollars, and it's why companies, institutions and global governments come to us for help meeting their biggest financial challenges. BlackRock runs on Aladdin. It has always been at the core of BlackRock. Aladdin® is an operating system for investment managers that seek to connect the information, people, and technology needed to manage money in real time. Our investment software combines risk analytics with portfolio management, trading, compliance, and operations tools on a single platform to power informed decision-making, effective risk management, efficient trading, and operational scale. Aladdin is used by a community of over 900 clients around the world. There are over 100,000 end users of Aladdin globally. Through Aladdin, the firm offers to clients the same technology and intellectual capital that BlackRock uses to manage investments day-to-day. The Aladdin Client Business is growing rapidly, with the volume of new client deals growing each year. We are at the next phase of our growth and are evolving into a business with multiple new product launches. Successful candidates will join in our efforts to help our clients onboard the world’s leading end-to-end operating system to manage investment portfolios and transform their business. We are looking for a candidate to join us in a Vice President role within the Aladdin Client Transformation team with 8+ years of relevant work experience.

Requirements

8+ years of relevant industry experience
Understanding of investment management with excellent interpersonal skills with proven ability to build relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
Superior communication and presentation skills, with the ability to convey complex concepts simply and clearly to internal team members or clients
Well organized with the ability to manage several priorities with a hands-on approach
Enjoys a fast paced, high-intensity and complex environment, troubleshooting time critical issues and working with people
Strong attention to detail; willing to take proactive action, and desire to roll up sleeves

Nice To Haves

Experience with institutional buy-side investment technology platforms
Working experience in investment organizations
Consulting experience
Experience with platform integrations (e.g., interfaces, APIs)
Professional designations or pursuit toward attaining (e.g., CFA, CAIA, FRM)

Responsibilities

Understand client objectives and goals paired with strong emotional ownership to deliver solutions utilizing Aladdin or eFront capabilities
Document, standardize and help scale deliverables, such as investment workflow designs and analytics overviews for various asset classes, including equities, fixed income, alternatives, derivatives, etc.
Consult on behalf of our business primarily through our products
Aid in developing improved practices to make client transformations more efficient with each new project
Able to work with various data sources in order to design solutions involving data visualization tools