BlackRock, Inc.-posted 21 days ago
Full-time • Mid Level
Hybrid • New York, NY
5,001-10,000 employees
Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles

Act as a Risk Manager for BlackRock's Separately Managed Accounts (SMA) Solutions, overseeing risk-taking and portfolio positioning. Conduct in-depth risk analysis on model portfolios and client accounts, evaluating risk decomposition, performance attribution, and market sensitivity. Apply quantitative techniques to enhance portfolio risk management and collaborate with portfolio managers to address anomalies. Assist in portfolio construction, optimizing asset allocation, conducting stress testing, and rebalancing strategies. Lead risk review meetings, offering insights on risk and performance. Develop and implement scalable risk oversight frameworks using Python, R, SQL, Excel, and MS Suite. Provide robust risk oversight for SMA client portfolios using automated risk analytics. Design and maintain dashboards to flag portfolio outliers. Deliver regular and ad-hoc risk reports, ensuring robust risk governance. Coordinate a team of junior quant risk analysts.

  • Managing risk of portfolios
  • Statistics and statistical techniques including regression analysis, descriptive analysis, and quantitative analysis
  • Leveraging market and investment risk management for various financial products and markets including credit, derivatives, equity, and fixed income investment products
  • Defining the methodology and implementing code in SQL, and Excel for data analysis
  • Writing Python Code using libraries including Pandas, Numpy, DateTime, OpenPyXL, YAML, and XLSXWriter
  • Implementing data science, automation, and machine learning techniques to analyze large data sets
  • Analyzing financial market trends and portfolio constituents to assist portfolio managers with portfolio construction
  • Creating risk oversight framework for separately managed accounts
  • Ability to analyze equity risk factor models with Barra
  • Ability to analyze income fixed income factor models
  • Ability to identify risk, return, and high return outliers
  • Ability to interpret and analyze risk data, including statistical analysis, to accurately convey the significance of risks to internal and external stakeholders
  • Master's Degree or Master's Degree or foreign equivalent in Quantitative Finance, Finance, Economics, or a related field, and 48 months of experience in job offered or as Research Analyst, Business Analyst, or closely related role.
  • Position requires four years of experience in the following: Managing risk of portfolios; Statistics and statistical techniques including regression analysis, descriptive analysis, and quantitative analysis; Leveraging market and investment risk management for various financial products and markets including credit, derivatives, equity, and fixed income investment products; Defining the methodology and implementing code in SQL, and Excel for data analysis; Writing Python Code using libraries including Pandas, Numpy, DateTime, OpenPyXL, YAML, and XLSXWriter; Implementing data science, automation, and machine learning techniques to analyze large data sets; Analyzing financial market trends and portfolio constituents to assist portfolio managers with portfolio construction; Creating risk oversight framework for separately managed accounts; Ability to analyze equity risk factor models with Barra; Ability to analyze income fixed income factor models; Ability to identify risk, return, and high return outliers; and Ability to interpret and analyze risk data, including statistical analysis, to accurately convey the significance of risks to internal and external stakeholders.
  • 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)
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