Career Returners Programme - Edinburgh

The Returner Programme is designed to encourage and support a return to full-time work through a six-month paid internship starting in September 2025. The returner programme acts as a feeder to full-time permanent employment (subject to individual performance and market conditions).

How we will support you:

• They will offer a variety of employee networks to help you integrate into the business and culture
• Provide a mentor and buddy for your day-to-day questions
• Provide coaching and peer support

To qualify for the program, participants must have the following:

• A career break of at least 24 months (no upper limit). During your career break you may have been working small-scale around other commitments or have not done any paid work.
• Prior experience in Investment Management or Financial Services
• Must be authorised to work in the UK

Implementation Consultant

Job Background:

BlackRock provides accounting and regulatory data services to clients who have outsourced their accounting function to BlackRock. BlackRock is currently embarked on an exciting program of work to develop our accounting operating platform and to extend asset class coverage. As our business has expanded, we have a requirement for strong implementation skills and accounting knowledge to continue to extend our depth.

BlackRock is seeking a Vice President to become part of a team that will embrace your skills, eagerness, and passion while giving you the freedom to grow professionally. The successful candidate will be responsible for overseeing key functions of our client support model to implement new business onto our accounting platform. The role will focus on developing investment process solutions for new and existing clients alike and be responsible for bringing together the capabilities of other parts of the BlackRock organization as required.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop a thorough knowledge of BlackRock’s capabilities, products and services for Investment Accounting clients
• Develop project plans for client implementations with measurable goals
• Own and drive the execution of project plans for client migrations and implementations, driving consensus and communicating to partners and management throughout
• Own and drive systems deployments, portfolio configurations (including char of accounts and relevant accounting elections), initialize accounting positions, review of positions initialized (book values, carry values, market values etc.), exception and breaks analysis and finalizing financial impact
• Improve our ability to scale implementation efforts to ensure we can support multiple ongoing efforts concurrently, given our projected sales targets
• Engage and maintain relationships with key partners across the firm to support business growth, implementation of new clients, and migrations and retention of existing clients
• Represent BlackRock on cross-functional projects and working groups in support of delivering key business and client objectives
• Ensure alignment of additional services with our Investment Accounting offering but supporting proper product integration in partnership with colleagues across the firm

Product Manager

Job background

Do you want to shape the future of financial technology?

The Aladdin Platform team is responsible for engineering and operating the core service layer that powers Aladdin, the central nervous system powering the investment decisions of both BlackRock and its clients, and a $1bn technology business that has significant growth aspirations over the next five years. As the pace of growth of Aladdin accelerates, we are dedicated to the speed of product delivery, predictability in execution, and quality. Our Product Management Office sits within Platform, and supports our engineering community by delivering well-defined products with clear roadmaps and efficient and reliable delivery.

Primary Responsibilities

As a Product Manager within Platform, you will be responsible for driving the transformation and delivery of services and capabilities that support Aladdin. You will define and own the product vision, roadmap, and success metrics, and will build relationships to develop a community of internal teams and senior leaders to influence prioritisation and execution alignment.

Closing date for applications is June 30th 2025