VP/Director, FSIG Strategy and Planning

About this role

Title: FSIG Commercial Strategy and Planning

Hiring manager: Lindsey Shapiro, Global COO of Financial & Strategic Investors Group

Corporate title: VP/Director

Location: New York

Business Overview

The Financial & Strategic Investors Group (FSIG) is transforming BlackRock’s global relationships with large asset owners such as insurers and sovereign wealth funds by supporting their evolving investment, portfolio, and business needs. The platform helps draw the best of BlackRock’s capabilities to advise sophisticated clients through their most complex challenges including. Today, FSIG comprises three areas: BlackRock’s relationships with worlds most sophisticated Asset Owners (i.e. central banks, multilateral development banks and sovereign wealth funds), Financial Markets Advisory (FMA), and the Global Financial Institutions Group (FIG). FMA delivers a range of capital markets, balance sheet management, and risk & analytics advice to banks, insurance companies and official institutions. FIG is the world's leading insurance asset management business. FSIG has a unique opportunity to anticipate clients' needs and reinforce BlackRock’s reputation with governments and large corporations, by better connecting investors and asset owners.

Position overview

This individual in our Commercial Strategy and Planning team will be responsible for driving commercial enablers for the Financial & Strategic Investors Group (FSIG). These include overseeing critical day-to-day business processes, resource allocation, culture and communication platforms, and collaborating with the COO and FSIG executive team on the commercial strategy agenda. This individual will also oversee FSIG’s participation in firm and Global Client Business (GCB) processes, i.e., Quarterly Business Reviews (QBRs), operating reviews, Board materials. 

Specific responsibilities include:

• Commercial strategy: In partnership with the COO and the executive team, develop and execute the business and talent strategy for FSIG. You will establish objectives, focus areas, action plans and build the bridge between current and future state.
• Strategic planning: Lead annual strategic planning, identifying most salient business and profitability drivers, opportunities, and risks; oversee Quarterly Business Reviews, strategic plans and executive presentations
• Financial & operational excellence: Partner with Finance to develop and manage budgets, forecasts and financial models; ensure resource allocation (headcount/compensation and non-compensation expenses) aligns with strategic priorities and create mechanisms that enable prioritization and evaluation of trade-offs; identify opportunities to create scale and efficiency across FSIG
• Reporting & performance tracking: Own, develop, and maintain system for monitoring KPIs and generating executive-level reporting; partner with firm stakeholders to further automate client and management reporting; drive development and execution technology strategy, spearheading efforts to use data, technology, and marketing to better target and execute sales activities
• Risk management: Set and reinforce policies that enable FSIG to size and manage risk; embed intelligent, consistent schemes for risk management (pricing, op risk / event remediation, KYC, RCSA, BCPs, conflicts, permissions, invoicing) and ensure timely completion
• Talent management & communications: In partnership with HR and FSIG executive team, create and embed a global talent management and communications model that enables FSIG to recruit, retain, and develop high performing, engaged people; manage processes that enable FSIG to onboard and train people and monitor their employee engagement effectively and at scale
• Business partnership: Drive further integration of FSIG with partner teams across GCB COO network, Finance, HR, L&C, RQA, T&O, investments, and Aladdin to support FSIG's strategic and risk management agenda

Qualifications and Experience:

• Bachelor's degree, 10+ years of experience
• Highly innovative with a commercial outlook – always looking for ways to improve and enhance delivery, exuding a “can-do” attitude
• Excellent project management skills covering project set-up through execution, implementation and closeout, with a strong orientation towards detail and an ability to recognize and solve problems.
• Self-motivated, flexible and proactive team player willing to go the extra mile every time
• Ability to work efficiently in a very fast-paced environment seeking to learn and improve as you go
• Strong financial and quantitative abiliti