Vice President, Technology Implementation

BlackRock - New York, NY

Full-time - Mid Level

Remote - New York, NY

501-1,000 employees

Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles

About the position

Aladdin® is an operating system for investment managers that seeks to connect the information, people, and technology needed to manage money in real time. The Aladdin platform combines risk analytics with portfolio management, trading, compliance, and investment operations tools on a single platform to power informed decision-making, effective risk management, efficient trading, and operational scale. Aladdin is used by a community of over 200 institutional clients around the world, including BlackRock. There are over 50,000 end users of Aladdin globally. The team is comprised of 800+ professionals responsible for implementing and supporting our Aladdin clients, sales and marketing, and ensuring the Aladdin Community maximizes Aladdin products through engagement and education. We are seeking a candidate to work within the Operations and Provider Practice supporting the implementation of investment operations. The individual will work closely with our partner implementation teams and the client acting as a subject matter expert and primary point of contact, providing guidance on best practices and supporting a smooth implementation.

Responsibilities

• Support Client implementations
• Own relationships with client teams including senior management to understand their business objectives and needs, and help them use Aladdin expertise to achieve their firm's goals
• Own the entire investment operations workflows for a project from start to finish which includes but not limited to: overarching planning and scoping activities, current and future state business process design/review (BPR), application data and workflow configuration, test case definition and management, client enablement, training and transition oversight, including oversight of issues resolution
• Build strong internal relationships within Aladdin Client Business, and the wider BlackRock globally, in support of your clients
• Become a SME across multiple operations functional areas (e.g. Trade Operations, Corporate Actions, Cash & Asset Recon)

Requirements

• 7+ years of work experience in the financial services industry within the investment operations space or preferably from a large investment bank
• Strong industry knowledge and can speak to market issues, trends, regulatory needs with clients
• Experience advising and engaging with clients at scale on workflows
• Familiarity with operational workflows i.e. trade matching and settlements, collateral and margin management, corporate actions and reconciliations
• Prior working knowledge and engagement with third party trade execution, settlement/confirmation platforms as well as market data vendors
• Working understanding of equity, fixed income and derivative markets, and analytics
• Outstanding communication and presentation skills, with the ability to convey complex concepts simply and clearly to clients
• Ambitious approach to large, complex projects, with a flair for problem solving
• Self-starter who enjoys a fast-paced, high-intensity environment and works well as part of a multi-disciplinary global team but also has the ability to take initiative and work independently
• Ability to travel and be on-site with client at various stages of an implementation
• Experience working on large agile implementations
• Strong understanding of project lifecycle
• Experience engaging with and managing project stakeholders
• Exposure and/or engagement on prior Aladdin implementation(s)

Nice-to-haves

• Prior people manager/leadership experience
• Business Analyst and/or Project management experience
• Experience with SQL, UNIX, VBA, C++, PERL or similar tools, and/or Aladdin
• Knowledge of private market (hedge funds, real estate, private placements) is useful but not required

Benefits

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