Aladdin Business, Implementations - Post Trade Practice, Associate

About this role

Aladdin Business, Implementations – Post Trade Practice, Associate  

Aladdin® is an operating system for investment managers that seeks to connect the information, people, and technology needed to manage money in real time. The Aladdin platform 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. Aladdin is used by a community of over 200 institutional clients around the world, including BlackRock. There are over 50,000 end users of Aladdin globally. The team is comprised of 800+ professionals responsible for implementing and supporting our Aladdin clients, sales and marketing, and ensuring the Aladdin Community maximizes Aladdin products through engagement and education. 

We are seeking a candidate to work within the Post Trade Practice supporting the implementation of investment operations and/or accounting (performance) workflows. The individual will work closely with our partner implementation teams and the client acting as a subject matter expert and primary point of contact, providing guidance on best practices and supporting a smooth implementation.  

Key responsibilities include: 

• Own a part or all of investment operations channel, a functional area or areas i.e. Trade confirmations/settlements, Margin/Collateral management, reconciliations, accounting implementations etc. for a project from start to finish i.e. pre-planning, configuration, testing, client training and deployment. 

• Coordinate and implement client specific investment accounting configuration, portfolio initialization, downstream general ledger/ sub ledger integration, and monthly accounting workflows. 

• Engage with client to understand their business objectives and needs and help them use Aladdin expertise to achieve their firm’s goals while ensuring positive client sentiment.   

• Be an extension of the client’s in-house team to build and lead projects and coordinate resources across multiple functional areas and share knowledge relating to Aladdin models, functionality, workflows, and market best-practices. 

• Partner with the client, as well as Aladdin Product Managers, developers, and financial modelers to support client development needs and assist with deployment of new models, analytics, and reporting across our broad range of financial products and investment styles. 

• Build strong internal relationships within BlackRock Solutions, and the wider BlackRock globally, in support of your clients. 

Required Skills and Experience 

• 3 - 10 years of work experience in the financial services industry within the investment operations and/or accounting space or preferably from a large investment bank or Big 4 accounting firm. 

• Familiarity with operational workflows including fund order execution, collateral and margin requirements, corporate actions, reconciliations and permissioning. 

• Prior working knowledge and engagement with third party trade execution, settlement/confirmation platforms as well as market data vendors.  

• Experience with accounting standards (e.g., US GAAP, STAT, TAX) as they pertain to investment accounting preferred but not required.