Description
This Associate Core Portfolio Manager role supports the United States equity investment team within Fundamental Equities at BlackRock. The position plays a critical role in implementing investment decisions, supporting portfolio construction activities, maintaining strong governance and controls, and ensuring efficient execution of portfolio-management processes.
The successful candidate will partner with portfolio managers, trading teams, product strategists, and operational stakeholders while helping to enhance workflows through data, automation, and technology-enabled solutions.
Responsibilities:
- Implement equity, derivative, and foreign exchange orders across a range of active investment strategies while partnering with global trading teams to support efficient execution.
- Manage cash-flow activity and cash allocations through derivative equitization, basket transactions, exchange-traded fund create/redeem activity, and single-stock transactions.
- Monitor portfolios and funds to support accurate implementation of investment strategies and maintain effective governance and control processes.
- Leverage financial-market knowledge, investment-platform applications, and technical capabilities to improve workflows and develop scalable solutions.
- Collaborate with portfolio managers, product strategists, trading teams, client businesses, and operational support partners on a daily basis to support investment objectives.
Experience:
- Demonstrated experience in a finance or technology-related role and relevant academic background in business, finance, computing, financial engineering, or a related field.
- Strong knowledge of global equity markets and interest in investment management.
- Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to work independently and collaboratively across a global team and credibly represent portfolio-manager perspectives.
- Strong organizational and problem-solving skills, with demonstrated ownership, initiative, and the ability to prioritize concurrent projects.
- Proficiency in Python for data analysis, automation, and application programming interface (API) integration, alongside knowledge of data structures, databases, Structured Query Language (SQL), version control systems such as Azure DevOps (ADO) or GitHub, and efficient data-pipeline design.
- Familiarity with data-visualization reporting tools used to communicate insights from complex datasets.
- Interest in using artificial intelligence (AI) and emerging technologies to improve productivity, generate insights, and support scalable investment processes.
Benefits:
- A strong retirement plan
- Tuition reimbursement
- Comprehensive healthcare
- Support for working parents
- Flexible Time Off (FTO)