Data Quality Operations Manager, Vice President

Description

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’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.

Data Platforms and Solutions (DPS) is entrusted with maintaining all data integral to the investment decision process. The function serves BlackRock the Investment Manager and its BlackRock Solutions (BRS) business, in our proprietary Aladdin® end-to-end investment platform. This team closely partners with key internal teams, such as Portfolio Management, Global Capital Markets, Relationship Management, Portfolio Compliance, Risk Analytics, Regulatory Reporting, and others, to ensure their business data needs are met accurately, timely, and efficiently.

The DPS philosophy is anchored on BlackRock’s cornerstone principles: Fiduciary focus, Passion for Performance, the unified purpose of One BlackRock, taking Emotional Ownership and Being Committed to a Better Future. Through this lens, we strive to build value for our clients by understanding their needs, the markets, and using technology to create best in class solutions. Our function has presence across 12 offices in 8 countries, servicing more than $25 trillion in AUM on Aladdin for a client base spanning 6 continents and all spectrums of the financial markets.

This role reports to the Director of Data Quality.

Key responsibilities:

- Oversight of daily quality control and validation of risk and portfolio analytics. Occasionally consulting on reference data, returns, performance, index, and pricing data.
- All facets of people management to be performed including ensuring appropriate staffing model, depth charts, and succession plans are assessed.
- Initiating and driving platform and process innovations to support new business needs, minimize risk, enhance quality, and navigate the changing markets while mitigating operational risk.
- Collaborating closely with the market analytics and financial modeling groups to expand understanding of our models.
- Understand client data needs and service levels while working with internal BlackRock Teams to provide relevant and intuitive analysis.
- Acting as an agent of change to consistently improve procedures and own projects within the QC environment and documenting best-practices.

**Skills**:

- Consistent record of leadership experience and positively influencing junior talent and their career progression.
- Strong, effective analytical and problem-solving skills along with executive decision-making abilities.
- Attention to detail and excellent interpersonal skills to effectively articulate solutions to internal and external partners and clients.
- Capability to assist in creating a team vision, planning and executing steps to align to Key Performance Indicators and objectives.
- Strong initiative to follow up on outstanding issues - identify what needs to be done, act and follow through to resolution.

**Experience**:

- A bachelor’s/master’s degree or equivalent in Accounting, Economics, Finance, Computer Science, or Engineering is required.
- 8 - 12 years of financial services experience and a good understanding of Financial Markets, preferably within the Investment Management industry.
- Possess and demonstrate a proven understanding of fixed income, equity, and derivative financial instruments.
- 5 years people management experience; demonstrated experience in leading teams of professionals, career development and performance assessments.
- Proven track record in project management.
- Experience in working with senior partners, client experience a plus.
- Experience or education related to agile methodologies is a plus.

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 mode