Aladdin Client Transformation - Front Office Implementation Specialist, Associate

Elevate your career by joining the world's largest asset manager! Do you thrive in an environment that champions positive relationships and recognizes outstanding performance? At BlackRock, we strive to empower our employees and integrate your involvement into our collective success. With over USD $22 trillion of client assets flowing through Aladdin, we have an outstanding responsibility: our technology and services empower hundreds of institutions to achieve their strategic and financial objectives every day. 

Team 

As an Associate in the Aladdin Client Transformations team, you will play a pivotal role in implementing Aladdin solutions for institutional clients across the financial industry. Within the Front Office Practice, we engage with Portfolio Managers, Risk Managers, and Senior Leadership at our clients to ensure that Aladdin investment solutions meet their requirements. In this role, you will collaborate with senior members of the Front Office Practice to deliver these market-leading solutions. Our success is measured by the successful adoption of Aladdin by our clients. 

Responsibilities:

• Leverage Aladdin to transform our client's business workflows and reporting across portfolio construction, order management, risk reporting, ESG and performance measurement & attribution 

• Collaborate closely with client leadership (e.g., Investment Professionals, Investment Risk Managers, Portfolio Managers, Reporting Specialists) to understand client objectives and goals while delivering strong representation on behalf of the Aladdin Business 

• Lead and document the redesign of investment and reporting workflows across various asset classes including equities, fixed income, alternatives, and derivatives, with a focus on operational scale and efficiency 

• Work closely with the client and Aladdin Product Managers to support the product development needs of our clients 

• Improve the efficiency and repeatability of our execution methodology with each new implementation 

• Develop deep relationships within BlackRock Solutions and BlackRock to ensure the best client experience 

• Mentor junior members of the team 

• Expected to travel periodically, including international opportunities 

Qualifications: 

• Deep understanding of investment management and risk, as a provider or practitioner with 4-10 years of relevant industry experience 

• Strong familiarity with capital markets instruments and the investment lifecycle across public and private asset classes 

• Outstanding communication and presentation skills, able to convey complex concepts concisely and clearly to clients 

• Excellent analytical ability & critical thinking capabilities to help understand complex workflows and client business models 

• Ability to using digital literacy to build efficiencies and enhance workflows and deliver high quality solutions 

• Great interpersonal skills with proven track record of building relationships with internal and external senior management 

• Well-organized with the ability to manage several contending priorities while retaining an acute attention to detail 

• Thrives in a dynamic, high-intensity, and complex environment, proficient in troubleshooting time-sensitive issues and collaborating effectively with others. 

• Experience implementing scalable and repeatable business processes 

Nice to have: 

• MBA, CFA, FRM, SCR, or Certificate in ESG preferred 

• SQL, Python, VBA experience a plus 

• Project management experience (e.g., PMP) a plus