VP, Third Party Data Governance & Oversight

About this role

 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 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. 

Responsibilities:

The Data Governance Team is responsible for ensuring the data needs of BlackRock and the clients of BlackRock Solutions are fulfilled with accurate, complete, and timely data. 

As a member of Third Party Oversight team within Data Governance, you will play a key role in a growing area in a dynamic and challenging environment.  

Day-to-day responsibilities include:

• Define and implement a standard process for third party lifecycle management and mature and integrate with existing processes and workflows 

• Build and maintain high performing relationships with our third party data vendors & core internal partners to achieve a comprehensive, quality data offering

• Understand Third party methodologies and differences across vendors and strategically resolve to meet client needs

• Manage Third party data providers for ESG, Index, Pricing, and Economy data.

• Measure and oversee vendor data quality and change management projects and support requests on all data challenges

• Serve as a liaison between vendors SME, business SME, and Data stewards SME teams to manage the capability roadmap, issue tracking and change tracking

• Work closely with data customers both internally and externally to stay abreast of new and evolving business and data challenges, requirements and market trends in order to align our data capabilities and content with business needs

• Develop and continuously improve and expand coverage of third party performance by monitoring progress through KPI’s

• Keep Senior management abreast of Vendor Data Quality, challenges and Progress

• Provide data insights and expertise in response to changing business needs, market events, regulatory change and new financial products.

• Profile and analyze data to ensure content meets business requirements while being compliant with the various dimensions of data quality as outlined in our data quality policy.

• Design data quality checks and performance metrics to assess data health and detect deficiencies and improvement with our data sources or internal data processes.

• Active engagement with key product stakeholders to ensure client data experience is aligned and exceeding expectations

• Ongoing engagement with technology on ways to innovate and deliver high quality data solutions through robust storage, maintenance, management and delivery methods. 

This function will expose the candidate to a wide range of BlackRock’s and BlackRock Solutions’ data providers and sources, tools and businesses and will require him/her to work closely with internal clients such as portfolio management, account management, operations, BlackRock Solutions as well as external users of reference and master data  

Qualifications / Requirements:

• Strong experience working with ESG, Index, Pricing, or Economy data.

• Experience working with Data Vendors.

• Candidate must have excellent communication skills to enable clear articulation, interpersonal skills and influence while working with internal and external clients.

• Candidate must have s