Associate, Product Manager/Business Analyst

About this role

Team Overview

BlackRock SMA Solutions helps clients customize portfolios for unique tax, values-alignment, or investment exposures across direct indexing, fixed income, active equity, and multi-asset. We deliver world-class service to all of our clients, from wealth advisors to family offices to endowments and foundations.

About this Role

The Associate Product Manager owns gap analyses and documentation of the resulting business and technical requirements supporting business initiatives to improve scale processes and systems and reduce errors.

Duties and Responsibilities

Project Management

• Assist in implementation of required changes.
• Support the execution governance for the roadmaps, including communication of status and project management for associated projects.
• Optimize the services of our partnered vendors by effectively managing the relationships and their deliverables.
• Help groom requirements backlogs, bringing forward the highest priority requirements to be worked on next

 

Business Processes and Requirements

• Act as the central point of contact between business users and systems development for both new and existing systems
• Partner with team members, developers and 3rd party software providers to improve efficiencies and enhance the usability and user experience of internal/external systems and workflows
• Document current state processes, perform gap analysis, and guide future state process design to enable scalable growth.
• Analyze and improve internal processes with a focus on process automation and quality.

 

System Requirements, User stories and UAT

• With a focus on user experience and workflow, capture business requirements, translate them into system requirements for developers and prioritize them
• Ensure requirements evolve into user documentation such that they are simultaneously published as features get released
• Drive adoption of new features for systems by working closely with QA engineers along with organizing and participating in user acceptance testing
• Work with the Product Manager to evaluate and assess the impact of new products or changes to current products and systems, and make recommendations for how systems should evolve to align with client needs

Data Requirements and documentation

• Ensure data interfaces between all teams is fully documented and agreed
• Provide support to business users by generating ad-hoc reports, investigating potential issues with data flow, and/or researching the viability of a suggested improvement
• Oversee manual data load processes
• Optimize the services of our partnered vendors by effectively managing the relationships and their deliverables.
• Other duties as assigned

Direct Reports

•  This role has no direct reports.

Minimum Requirements

• 3+ years of related experience working in asset management and/or a brokerage firm in business process improvement/engineering/project or product management.
• Bachelor's degree in Business, Engineering, or related discipline.
• Business Analysis experience
• Experience working with systems developers on custom software, preferably in an agile environment.
• Experience with databases and writing simple SQL queries

Other Desirable Skills & Abilities:

• Proven ability to re-engineer or improve a process
• Strong verbal and written communication
• Ability to gather, analyze, and present data to different audiences
• Ability to understand a process at a high level, while still drilling into details

 

For California only the salary range for this position is $0 - $0. Additionally, employees are eligible for an annual discretionary bonus, and benefits including heath care, leave benefits, and retirement benefits. BlackRock operates a pay-for-performance compensation philosophy and your total compensation may vary based on role, location, and firm, department and individual performance.

Our benefits

To help you stay energized, engaged and inspired, we offer a wide range of benefits including a strong retirement plan, tuition reimbursement, comprehensive healthcare, support for working parents 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