Data Modeler, Analyst
BlackRockAbout the role
About this role
BlackRock Company Description
BlackRock is one of the world’s preeminent asset management firms and a premier provider of global investment management, risk management and advisory services to institutional, intermediary, and individual investors around the world. BlackRock’s mission is to create a better financial future for our clients. We have a responsibility to be the voice of the investor, and we represent each client fairly and equally. Constant communication with a diverse team of partners strengthens us and delivers better results for our clients. Continuous innovation helps us bring the best of BlackRock to our clients. BlackRock offers a range of solutions — from rigorous fundamental and quantitative active management approaches aimed at maximizing outperformance to highly efficient indexing strategies designed to gain broad exposure to the world’s capital markets. Our clients can access our investment solutions through a variety of product structures, including individual and institutional separate accounts, mutual funds and other pooled investment vehicles, and the industry-leading iShares® ETFs.
Who We Are
Quantitative Modeling and Research (QMR) is an innovative team within Single Security Modeling (SSM) area. We specialize in crafting sophisticated risk and valuation models that span a diverse range of products, including interest rates, FX, inflation, equity, and credit. Our mission goes beyond traditional quantitative models; we are at the forefront of exploring novel modeling techniques, such as neural networks, to tackle complex problems in quantitative finance.
What makes working on the team both challenging and rewarding:
Focus on business: We do not solve the math problem – we solve the business problem!
Breadth of product coverage: We support both BlackRock with over $11T AUM and Aladdin clients with trillions more. This is a tremendous breadth of products we need to cover.
Excellence in modeling and coding: We pride ourselves both on building great models and writing high quality code.
Collaborative environment: We have a lot of smart people on the team. Working here is a great chance to both learn and to teach others.
What You Will Be Doing
Researching the availability, quality, and liquidity of the market data from different providers.
Designing and implementing the processes of loading and transforming the market data required for the analytics in Aladdin.
Applying both traditional and novel data science techniques to build monitoring processes to detect exceptions. Work with the Data and Analytics teams to address them in a timely fashion.
Learning the market and our models to understand the business context.
Keep abreast of recent trends in technology and quantitative finance. Bring the latest techniques to bear on the problems we face in our day-to-day work.
What We Look For
A Degree in Computer Science or another similar field.
Ability to write high quality code.
A keen interest in solving analytical problems is crucial.
Excellent communication skills are required. You will be expected to work with multiple teams with different backgrounds and levels of technical/model expertise.
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 currently required to work at least 4 days in the office per week, with
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