About this role
At the heart of BlackRock, the largest investment management firm in the world, is the Aladdin Product team. Being a member of Aladdin Product means working with the industry’s thought leaders to build innovative and forward-looking products that shape the financial markets. The Aladdin Accounting Product team builds next-generation technology that changes the way global investment firms manage their accounting, reporting, and investment processes.
Sitting at the intersection of business and technology, Product Managers work closely with Aladdin developers and other stakeholders to innovate, conceptualize, design and pilot new capabilities to simplify our clients’ biggest problems. As an Aladdin Accounting Product Manager, you will be responsible for leading, managing, and executing on our product vision.
About Aladdin & Aladdin Accounting
Aladdin is our operating platform to manage and account for investments. It unites client data, operators, and technology needed to manage transactions in real time through every step of the investment process. Aladdin exists so that every financial professional can understand investment decisions and act with clarity.
Aladdin combines sophisticated risk analytics with comprehensive portfolio management, trading, operations, and accounting tools on a single platform to power informed decision-making. Aladdin Accounting extends the scope of Aladdin, providing our clients a single, front-to-back investment platform with comprehensive investment accounting. The platform builds a connective tissue for thousands of users investing worldwide.
Role Responsibility
You will have complete ownership of ensuring that changes were fully completed, and any affected services restored.
You will identify process improvements for change implementation and weekend checkouts; aid is incident management and root cause analysis.
Provide ongoing operational support for the Aladdin infrastructure. Supporting and fix both batch processing and interactive user applications to ensure the high availability of the Aladdin Environment
Uses various tools to conduct analysis on system performance, root cause diagnostics, and systems’/applications’ design to understand and improve the operating quality of production environments.
Engage in clear and concise communications both verbally and in writing. Effectively interacts on incident bridges and calls to ensure all distributed team members are constantly informed.
Engineer solutions to expedite recovery of environment post weekend maintenances.
Weekend Shift Work: You might be required to work on the weekend shifts on rotational basis
Experience, Skills & Knowledge Required
1. 3+ years of work experience in product management, project management or fund accounting.
2. Experience with product and software development lifecycles, including interacting with product stakeholders, end users and software developers.
3. Experience using Accounting systems and/or successful track record in technology implementations of investment software.
4. In depth understanding of investment accounting and performance reporting cycles, operational processes, and workflows.
5. Experience with Fund Accounting Oversight workflows is a plus
6. Ability to present complex conceptual ideas to senior stakeholders and execute against them.
7. Ability to prioritize, schedule and manage tasks effectively, problem solve independently, and manage business risk exposure.
8. The skill to organize the efforts of multiple teams, including ones you don’t directly lead, towards a common product goal
9. Understanding of investment lifecycle and market performance is a plus.
10. Experience engaging with clients and understanding their product needs is a plus.
11. Big 4 accounting firm experience, specifically in technology, audit technology, or consulting a plus.
12. Strong working knowledge of agile frameworks.
Our benefits
To help you stay energized, engaged and inspired, we offer a wide range of employee benefits including: retirement investment and tools designed to help you in building a sound financial future; access to education reimbursement; comprehensive resources to support your physical health and emotional well-being; family support programs; 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 Employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to age, disability, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation and other protected characteristics at law.
BlackRock Edinburgh, Scotland Office
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
