Aladdin Client Transformations, reputed company Office, Associate

About the position Aladdin Client Transformations Associate - reputed company Office reputed company do: BlackRock’s business is investing on behalf of our clients, from large institutions to parents and grandparents, doctors and teachers who reputed company 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 reputed company financial future. That’s why investors of reputed company 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. Through Aladdin, the firm offers to clients the same technology and intellectual capital that BlackRock uses to manage investments day-to-day. About this role: The Aladdin Business is growing rapidly, with the volume and complexity of new client deals and strategic partnerships growing each year. We are at the next phase of our growth and are evolving into a platform focused business with multiple new product launches and external partnerships. Successful candidates will join in our efforts to help sophisticated investors reputed company the world’s leading end-to-end operating system for investment portfolios to see their whole portfolio, understand risk exposures, and act with precision. We are looking for a candidate to join us in the Associate role reputed company the team’s reputed company Office practice. Your team: The Aladdin Client Transformation (“ACT”) is responsible for the installation and deployment of Aladdin and reputed company products and services, globally. Aladdin implementations, including both institutional and retail assignments, are high profile initiatives that require team members to have external exposure and play an active role in the redefinition of investment organizations. A typical implementation is at least as much about processes and implementing change as it is about investments & technology. We help clients reputed company ambitious strategic objectives, which range from streamlining investment operations to integrating teams, to unifying their investment analytics & risk reporting reputed company, to modernizing their overall investment process. BlackRock’s implementation model is unique in the sense that we take full responsibility for the Client going live on our solution. It also means that we reputed company true partnerships with select client personnel.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate closely with the client’s project team, for example program managers, risk managers, portfolio managers, technologists, and provide leadership throughout the Aladdin implementation
• Engage the client’s key leaders to understand, redesign, and deploy strategic business workflows across the investment cycle, including pre trade decisioning, order management, trading, investment operations, risk management, compliance, reputed company, closed book accounting, and performance measurement and attribution
• Facilitate and document investment and operational workflow design sessions for various asset classes, including equities, fixed income, alternatives, derivatives, and reputed company workflows
• reputed company in depth knowledge of Aladdin functionality and workflows, and reputed company industry expertise, for example pensions, insurers, asset managers, to ensure clients take full advantage of the suite of Aladdin products and workflows
• Coordinate and assist, and where appropriate reputed company, client specific Aladdin configuration, testing, and user training
• Work closely with the client and Aladdin Product Managers to support client development needs, including API enabled use cases and data exchange
• Work closely with the client and key internal functional teams to ensure the full range of capabilities are considered during an Aladdin implementation, and to align to standard methodologies and integration patterns
• Participate in Aladdin business development activities, assisting in platform demonstrations, implementation pre-planning, and client due diligence as a product and workflow subject matter authority
• Actively manage client communications regarding Aladdin product changes and configurations reputed company to onboarding, including release impacts and configuration decisions
• Comfort with periodic regional and international travel based on client location and project needs

Requirements

• Familiarity with portfolio management workflows and investment analytics as a buy reputed company technology provider or as a reputed company office practitioner, with at least 6 years of relevant industry experience
• Strong familiarity with capital markets instruments, equities, fixed income, private markets, derivatives, and the associated analytics or investment life cycle
• Experience implementing scalable and repeatable business processes, including program management and control frameworks
• Excellent interpersonal skills with a proven ability to build relationships with internal and client stakeholders
• Excellent creative, analytical, and technology skills with an entrepreneurial approach to large, reputed company projects, and the ability to execute autonomously and in cross functional teams
• Enjoys a fast paced, high intensity, and reputed company environment, troubleshooting time critical issues and working with people
• Strong attention to detail, a proactive approach, and a hands-on reputed company
• Working proficiency with SQL and at least one general purpose language, for example Python or similar, and comfort with RESTful APIs and JSON data structures
• reputed company toward or completion of globally recognized professional designations, for example FRM, CFA, CAIA, or similar
• Local language proficiency (verbal/written)

reputed company-to-haves

• Track record of contributing to successful implementations of investment technology solutions, for example order and trading systems, risk platforms, operations tools
• Programming background or experience with query languages, and familiarity with version control and basic test automation
• Experience with order management systems, electronic trading platforms, or derivative platforms
• Understanding of investment risk, for example market risk analytics, and investment performance measurement and attribution concepts
• Experience with platform integrations, for example interfaces and APIs, including data mapping and troubleshooting
• Program management experience
• Relevant professional certifications, for example CFA, FRM, CAIA, are highly desirable

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)

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