About this role
Technology has been at the core of BlackRock since our founding, with Aladdin as the central driving force. More than portfolio management software, Aladdin is an end-to-end operating system for investment professionals. Aladdin brings clarity and connectivity to the world’s financial ecosystem. The Aladdin Business is expanding, and we are looking for new talented people to join our Aladdin Sales Operations team. As a member of the Sales Operations team for one of BlackRock’s fastest growing areas, you will support business activities and manage projects on behalf of Aladdin Business leadership in areas such as sales & marketing strategy, business operations, and technology enablement.
Do you have demonstrated success delivering impact and commercial outcomes? Then, we want you! We are passionate about delivering state of the art technology to our partners in a scalable and resilient manner, coupled with a great user experience.
We are a team that recognizes strength comes from diversity and embrace technical expertise and curiosity equally. We are focused on delivering commercial outcomes and are passionate about building outstanding products.
At BlackRock, we embrace your outstanding skills, curiosity, and passion while giving you the opportunity to grow technically and non-technically as an individual. With over USD $8 trillion of assets under management, we have an exceptional responsibility: our products and technology empower millions of investors to save for retirement, pay for college, buy a home, and improve their general financial wellbeing.
Job background
The team partners closely with our Sales, Marketing, Client Engagement and Finance. You will also partner with internal technology teams on infrastructure, tools, processes, standards, and development, as well as other data science and analytics teams across the organization.
The successful candidate will have a passion for technology and clients, comfort working across a range of technology capabilities, including databases, software, and infrastructure, and a love of solving complex problems.
At BlackRock, we embrace your outstanding skills, curiosity, and passion while giving you the opportunity to grow technically and as an individual. With over USD $8 trillion of assets under management, we have an exceptional responsibility: our products and technology empower millions of investors to save for retirement, pay for college, buy a home, and improve their general financial wellbeing.
Your responsibilities may include:
- Create high visibility dashboards, reports, and visualizations to ensure the timely delivery of valuable metrics and actionable insights.
- Collaborate with other members of the data science and analytics community across the firm on best practices, code review, internal tools and process improvements.
- Help evolve and expand Aladdin business reporting and data management framework
- Develop, own, and evangelize key business metrics.
- Design and build Tableau dashboards that provides senior leaders and RMs with trend analysis and clients insights, particularly for financial performance, client engagement and other metrics
- Focus on automation and utilizing technology to provide repeatable solutions
- Contribute to project roadmap to help brainstorm on deliverables, set deadlines, and identify gaps
- Partner with Sales, Client Engagement, Finance, Sales Strategy, Marketing and COO teams to drive direction and strategic initiatives through quantitative and qualitative analysis.
- Help integrate various manual reports into an automated comprehensive view
- Provide training to BlackRock Solutions team members and partners on the best way to leverage dashboards and data
- Effective team player, comfortable working across multiple functions, geographies and stakeholders
- Robust quantitative skills along with demonstrated analytical ability to synthesize information and summarize issues
- Eagerness to learn and understand all aspects of the business, including reporting, communications, and setting and delivering on strategic and tactical objectives
- Keen attention to detail and ability to effectively multi-task
Some of the skills you should have:
- Bachelors or Masters degree in Math, Computer Science, Statistics, Economics, Physics, Engineering or another quantitative field
- Expert proficiency in Tableau
- Highly quantitative, with a keen eye for teasing out insights from volumes of data
- The ability to effectively collaborate with and present to both technical and non-technical partners
- Experience communicating and presenting results and business impact to senior leadership
- Proficiency in SQL for querying data
- Proficiency with either Python or R
- Basic understanding of experimental design (such as A/B experiments) and statistical methods
- Experience of developing data solutions such as ETLs, databases, API’s to both source and provide data, and automation a plus
- Experience with Hadoop stack (HIVE, Pig, Hadoop streaming)
- Intellectual curiosity and a commercial mindset
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.
About BlackRock
At BlackRock, we are all connected by one mission: to help more and more people experience financial well-being. Our clients, and the people they serve, are saving for retirement, paying for their children’s educations, buying homes and starting businesses. Their investments also help to strengthen the global economy: support businesses small and large; finance infrastructure projects that connect and power cities; and facilitate innovations that drive progress.
This mission would not be possible without our smartest investment – the one we make in our employees. It’s why we’re dedicated to creating an environment where our colleagues feel welcomed, valued and supported with networks, benefits and development opportunities to help them thrive.
BlackRock is proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status, and other statuses protected by law.
BlackRock will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records in a manner consistent with the requirements of the law, including any applicable fair chance law.