Associate

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.

Qualifications: 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; and BI Tools including Tableau and Power BI.

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For San Francisco, CA Only the salary range for this position is USD$182,987.00 - USD$195,000.00 . Additionally, employees are eligible for an annual discretionary bonus, and benefits including healthcare, leave benefits, and retirement benefits. BlackRock operates a pay-for-performance compensation philosophy and your total compensation may vary based on role, location, and firm, department and individual performance.

Our benefits
To help you stay energized, engaged and inspired, we offer a wide range of benefits including a strong retirement plan, tuition reimbursement, comprehensive healthcare, support for working parents and Flexible Time Off (FTO) so you can relax, recharge and be there for the people you care about.

Our hybrid work model

BlackRock’s hybrid work model is designed to enable a culture of collaboration and apprenticeship that enriches the experience of our employees, while supporting flexibility for all. Employees are currently required to work at least 4 days in the office per week, with the flexibility to work from home 1 day a week. Some business groups may require more time in the office due to their roles and responsibilities. We remain focused on increasing the impactful moments that arise when we work together in person – aligned with our commitment to performance and innovation. As a new joiner, you can count on this hybrid model to accelerate your learning and onboarding experience here at BlackRock.

About BlackRock

At BlackRock, we are all connected by one mission: to help more and more people experience financial well-being.  Our clients, and the people they serve, are saving for retirement, paying for their children’s educations, buying homes and starting businesses. Their investments also help to strengthen the global economy: support businesses small and large; finance infrastructure projects that connect and power cities; and facilitate innovations that drive progress.

This mission would not be possible without our smartest investment – the one we make in our employees. It’s why we’re dedicated to creating an environment where our colleagues feel welcomed, valued and supported with networks, benefits and development opportunities to help them thrive.

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BlackRock is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity to all applicants and existing employees, and we evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, creed, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity/expression), sexual orientation, age, ancestry, physical or mental disability, marital status, political affiliation, religion, citizenship status, genetic information, veteran status, or any other basis protected under applicable federal, state, or local law. View the EEOC’s Know Your Rights poster and its supplement and the pay transparency statement.

 

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