Performance & Attribution – Analytics Product Manager, Associate

The Analytics Product team empowers investment and risk management decision-making for BlackRock and Aladdin clients through industry-leading models, analytics, research, and processes supporting investor activities.

The team delivers value for users, clients, and prospects by reliably meeting commitments. We craft compelling research and applied solutions. Enable new opportunities with fit-for-purpose analytics. Apply extensive confirmed experience across the client lifecycle. In close collaboration with partner teams throughout the Aladdin Business, the team accomplishes the analytics and product development lifecycle with full ownership.

We speed up model development and delivery using agile methods. The team leads the deployment of new model features and infrastructure improvements. Encourage adoption within the Aladdin community and maintain model quality through clear processes and governance.

Analytics Product also shapes the future of the Analytics & Investor Platform by defining the multi-year strategy for analytics and investor workflows, building leading private markets and whole-portfolio analytics capabilities, shaping analytics infrastructure to support the next phase of growth, and delivering Open Analytics and APIs to enable Open Aladdin.

About Performance & Attribution: The Performance & Attribution team within Analytics Product (AP) delivers Aladdin's performance and return analytics to support better portfolio decisions and differentiate investment solutions. Partnering across investment, client, analytics, data and technology teams to deploy new architecture, models and solutions across a wide range of asset classes and client segments.

Our team is known for:

• Problem solving: We partner with investment, risk and client-facing teams to understand their business problems and provide creative solutions using Aladdin analytics.
• Innovation: We sit at the intersection of finance and technology. We conceptualize, build and implement new capabilities so Aladdin remains the best platform for clients to understand and manage portfolios and risk.
• Centralized & scalable operating platform: Aladdin is a global investment platform that helps us solve problems in a scalable and efficient manner.

About the role: We are looking for a new member in the AP Performance & Attribution Team to help support the ever-increasing demand for Aladdin's performance measurement and performance attribution capabilities.

Portfolio performance evaluation involves performance measurement, performance attribution and performance appraisal. Performance attribution plays a key role in the investment process. It provides feedback throughout portfolio management and explains investment decisions to clients. It helps investors understand the key drivers of active return: Sector Allocation decisions or ability to research attractive investment opportunities at the individual asset level.

This team plays a coordinating role in defining product strategy, conceptualizing, designing, testing, and deploying new capabilities, working closely with financial modelers, engineers, product managers and users. You will also work with clients and relationship managers to ensure that clients are getting the most out of Aladdin's performance capabilities and that client feedback is addressed appropriately.

We offer a dynamic, team-oriented environment with tremendous learning and growth potential.

Overview of Responsibility: Collaborate with Modeling and Research, Quantitative Technology, and Aladdin Product Management to analyze, create specifications for and test enhancements to performance measurement and attribution calculators and presentation capabilities.

Work closely with Quantitative Technology partners to decommission legacy processes across the performance attribution ecosystem, ensuring product designs are future ready.

Provide performance measurement and attribution subject matter expertise as a point of escalation for client inquiries and production challenges; and provide documentation of performance and attribution calculations and methodology.

Provide dedicated project ownership to deliver enhanced performance attribution analytics across the Outcome ETF range, specifically Buffer and Buy Write product ranges. This will include integrating option sensitivities, processing & incorporating vendor option data to enable daily monitoring and monthly reviews during market / dislocation events

Work with partner teams to develop and evolve the engine across new asset classes and enhance analytics delivery. Ensure alignment with industry standards, providing scale across the product.

Orchestrate the model development lifecycle for requirements, specifications, data and infrastructure planning, user acceptance testing, deployment, and release communications.

Engage with partner teams that manage analytics production and quality control processes and provide subject matter expertise and coordination to resolve sophisticated client inquiries.

Author and maintain documentation around models and related infrastructure.

Stay abreast on global finance, capital markets, geo-political scenarios, regulations, and technology trends impacting BlackRock.

About you: Candidates should have a demonstrated track record in solving difficult real-world problems within investment & risk management businesses. The candidate will be expected to use extensive quantitative skills to lead sophisticated performance analytics projects in an endeavor to evolve the analytics platform within Aladdin. Furthermore, all positions require outstanding quantitative, communication, and presentation abilities.

• 2-3 years of business analyst-related experience relevant to the development, deployment, and application of models and analytics within performance and attribution areas. Backgrounds rooted in analytics, accounting, risk, and performance are all of interest. Direct exposure working with financial derivatives (including options) and solid understanding of how these financial instruments work.

• Demonstrated success in project management with financial modelers, engineers, and product managers.

• Diligent, organized, and committed while leading multiple projects.

• Ability to pro-actively prioritize tasks, set and meet deadlines, and pay attention to detail.

• Engineering, Finance, Mathematics, Business Management or some other quantitative field of study. Bachelor’s degree required.

• Acquired technical proficiency includes experience in Unix, SQL, and scripting platforms.

• Ability to navigate a technical environment using scripting skills (e.g. Java and Python), SQL, sophisticated excel to scale activities such as model validation and software testing. Ability to read and interpret code is a plus, however, this is not a dedicated developer role.

• Experience working within an Agile environment is a plus

• Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) or Financial Risk Manager (FRM) designation is a plus.

• Excellent quantitative and analytics skills. Ability to identify problems, design and eloquent solutions, and implement change.

• Excellent understanding of financial markets and ability to comprehend the impact of market events.

• Strong project management skills. Ability to prioritize deliverables/enquiries when multi-tasking, structure multiple communication streams and lead workflows.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to document cases and user stories, write specifications, deliver presentations, communicate up and down the organization and influence partners and collaborators, both technical and non-technical.

• Superb Interpersonal Skills: You will be expected to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams to drive results and achieve goals.