Managing Director, Global Head of Finance Platform Strategies

About the position

BlackRock’s Finance & Strategy organization is on a multi-year journey to leverage technology and data to enhance control, automate processes, and improve the user experience for both Finance teams and extended stakeholder communities around the firm. The goal is to build on progress to date and accelerate our path towards an agile, scalable, and insight-driven Finance & Strategy function. Through investments in data and technology we are modernizing our data infrastructure, implementing self-service dashboards, and enhancing analytics capabilities for finance, strategy and business partners.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a leader within Finance & Strategy, helping to drive the long-term management of Finance platform and technology initiatives across various functions including controllers, financial planning, expense management, treasury, and tax.
• Drive strategic vision and implementation of platform enhancements, working closely with partners across both the Finance & Strategy organization and BlackRock’s Aladdin Engineering team.
• Provide day-to-day operational oversight and management of the platform.
• Propose, influence, and execute constructive and innovative solutions to meet Finance and business partner objectives.
• Solidify actionable business requirements and support strategic projects to ensure successful completion.
• Deploy a wide range of financial applications, analytical tools, and automation solutions, including both third-party and proprietary solutions.
• Advocate and advance best practices for processes and controls within the Finance ecosystem.
• Understand corporate operating procedures, identify functional gaps, work with Finance leadership to close such gaps.
• Partner with regionally-based Finance senior leadership and FPS global leads to help shape the Finance & Strategy platform strategy.
• Build consensus to influence Finance leadership in support of critical business projects & priorities through presentation of clear business use case analysis.
• Provide timely ongoing project communications in a concise and direct manner to keep key stakeholders informed.
• Partner with executive sponsors of initiatives and our sourcing vendor management team in negotiating contracts and SOWs.
• Manage technology vendor relationships, including tracking performance vs. SLAs, and conducting internal risk assessments.

Requirements

• Passion for technology, process and platform improvement, demonstrated through prior leadership positions and educational background.
• Lead global teams across multiple time zones and manage large-scale initiatives in parallel; prioritize across multiple projects and assignments.
• Develop project roadmaps and deliverables, providing updates to senior leadership.
• Build, and then manage against, multi-million-dollar technology budgets.
• Extensive experience supporting third-party Finance applications such as Oracle’s Finance SaaS platform and IBM Planning Analytics.
• Experience with enterprise reporting and dashboarding tools such as Power BI, and with ETL tools.
• Strong working knowledge of generative AI capabilities, and a vision for use cases to drive insights and productivity within a corporate function environment.
• Experience implementing process automation and machine learning capabilities within a corporate function environment.

Nice-to-haves

• Proactive and dedicated to continuous improvement; assess and constructively challenge the status quo on an ongoing basis.
• Effective communicator, capable of articulating and presenting both strategic and tactical objectives, including underlying business rationale, with appropriate audience sensitivity.
• Collaborative, working in partnership with all levels of management to identify innovative solutions which will unlock capacity and enable Finance & Strategy colleagues to achieve their objectives.

Benefits

• Strong retirement plan
• Tuition reimbursement
• Comprehensive healthcare
• Support for working parents
• Flexible Time Off (FTO)