Associate

Associate

Company: BlackRock Financial Management, Inc.

Location: 100 Bellevue Parkway, Wilmington, DE 19809

Job Duties: Drive client engagement, scope of work review, requirements collection and project planning for the data management workstream of new Aladdin implementations. Manage data workstream progress and communications with clients and partners to ensure successful delivery of critical milestones along the project plan. Collaborate with client investment, technology, and data professionals to ensure alignment and clarity of data scope, mapping, normalization, and implementation approaches. Educate and guide clients on Aladdin data conventions and target state data management workflows inclusive of on-site training for client data teams. Use standard interfaces and configurable elements to facilitate the onboarding of client data from clients directly and/or third-party data providers. Partner with front-office and investment process practice leads to configure investment portfolio structure, benchmark assignments and establish proper risk analytics deliverables. Manage systematic data reconciliation and reviews and drive the resolution of issues with internal data owners, external vendors and/or the development of solutions with clients and partners. Partner with Analytics stewards to ensure valuation and risk analytics results are comprehensive and up to market and modelling standard. Manage client requirements, provide critical business, and technical analysis to development partners in data stewards, production solutions and engineering functions for new data and solutions development. Provide validation and directly manage the client UAT. Create dedicated client documentation with standard templates and partner with Data Operations to transition new clients into production support.

Qualifications: Bachelor's degree in Quantitative Finance and Risk Management, Finance, Financial Engineering or a related field and three (3) years of experience in the job offered or as an Analyst or a related role. Must have three (3) years of experience with: Python and SQL; Conducting scope of work reviews and requirements collection; Project planning, including creating and managing project plans, timelines, and milestones; Managing project progress and communications with clients and partners; Standard interfaces and configurable elements for data onboarding; Apply Risk analytics and valuation standards - Boncalc collections for various financial instrument; Strong analytical skills to provide critical business and technical analysis; Managing client UAT processes; Partner with front-office and investment process practice leads to configure investment portfolio structure, benchmark assignments and establish proper risk analytics deliverables; Lead and manage complex client implementation projects, ensuring delivery of critical milestones that directly support the execution of business contracts and revenue generation for Aladdin platform; Performing detailed data analysis and reconciliation between Aladdin outputs and clients' internal operational systems and databases; Designing, configuring, and implementing data interfaces, overnight production workflows, and downstream analytics processes to support ongoing operations; Test, validate, and deploy new products and enhancements into client environments, ensuring adherence to established best practices, quality standards, and regulatory requirements; and Conduct ongoing reviews of client portfolios and datasets during project implementation to assess alignment with market movements; proactively identify data or analytics issues and collaborate with clients to investigate, resolve and remediate discrepancies.

Salary: $96,900 – 125,000