# Vice President, Investment Accounting Group

**Company**: BlackRock
**Location**: Edinburgh, Scotland
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Finance
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q219635

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## Description

The Investment Accounting Group provides accounting and regulatory data services to financial institutions. The team delivers reconciliation, asset tracking and accounting, monthly reporting packages, and regulatory schedules.

As a Vice President in the Investment Accounting Group, you will provide leadership and subject-matter expertise across operational risk, controls and governance, maintaining an end-to-end view of the control environment across Investment Accounting and its service partners.

Your responsibilities:

- Maintain an end-to-end view of operational risk and the control environment across Investment Accounting and its service partners.

- Act as a senior subject-matter expert and coordination point across operational risk, controls, governance and issue management.

- Lead and enhance governance, escalation, monitoring and management-information frameworks.

- Identify and challenge control, process and documentation weaknesses.

- Lead key risk and control activities, including RCSA, access governance and recertification, business continuity planning, and periodic control assessments.

- Lead coordination of Internal Audit, regulatory and other independent reviews.

- Provide risk and control leadership for significant business and technology change.

- Partner across Investment Accounting, Product, Engineering, Data, Client and Risk teams to ensure new processes and capabilities are introduced with appropriate controls.

- Analyze incidents, control failures and recurring operational issues to identify broader trends and systemic risks.

- Lead the Investment Accounting Risk and Control Self-Assessment (RCSA) and Business Continuity Planning (BCP).

- Provide risk and governance oversight for AI, automation and other emerging technology use cases.

Your experience:

- Six or more years of relevant experience in financial services, investment accounting, operations, operational risk, controls, audit or a related discipline.

- Strong understanding of operational-risk and control frameworks.

- Experience leading or materially supporting Internal Audit, regulatory reviews, risk assessments, control testing, SOC/SOX or comparable control-focused engagements.

- Working knowledge of investment accounting, financial reporting, asset servicing or another complex, highly controlled financial-services operating environment.

- Demonstrated ability to identify emerging or systemic risks and translate them into practical, scalable control and governance improvements.

- Strong judgment and ability to challenge constructively.

- Ability to influence senior leaders and cross-functional stakeholders without relying on direct authority.

- Strong written and verbal communication skills.

- Demonstrated ability to lead multiple complex initiatives simultaneously across global and matrixed teams.

- Experience with technology-enabled operating-model change, automation or AI governance is desirable.

Our benefits:

- Retirement investment and tools designed to help you build a sound financial future.

- Access to education reimbursement.

- Comprehensive resources to support your physical health and emotional well-being.

- Family support programs.

- Flexible Time Off (FTO).

Our hybrid work model:

- Employees are currently required to work at least 4 days in the office per week, with the flexibility to work from home 1 day a week.

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## Skills

### Required
- operational risk
- controls
- governance
- investment accounting
- financial reporting
- asset servicing

### Nice to have
- technology-enabled operating-model change
- automation
- AI governance

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