# ETF Platform Business Analyst

**Company**: BlackRock
**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 ETF Platform team at BlackRock Global Markets & Index Investments plays a crucial role in expanding and safeguarding BlackRock's and iShares' ETF product suite across the region.

You will be responsible for delivering the ETF platform capabilities required to support the continued development and growth of iShares and BlackRock's Japan ETF business.

Key responsibilities:

- Drive innovation: Identify opportunities to enhance ETF structures, operating models, and platform capabilities to support continued product innovation and growth.

- Design: Design ETF operating models and workflows for new strategies or exposures within an ETF wrapper.

- Simplify complexity: Quickly absorb technical concepts and communicate them clearly and effectively to diverse audiences.

- Deliver with precision: Maintain exceptional attention to detail in preparing quantitative analyses, written materials, and presentations.

- Problem-solve and execute: Tackle challenges proactively, develop solutions, and advance strategic priorities with impact.

- Organize and prioritize: Manage multiple initiatives simultaneously, ensuring timely delivery against competing deadlines.

- Collaborate for success: Partner closely with internal teams to guide decision-making on product structuring, investment processes, and operating model design trade-offs.

- Deepen expertise: Build a comprehensive understanding of our Japan ETF product range and identify opportunities for growth and differentiation.

- Ecosystem partnership: Partner with ETF Markets and external market participants to incorporate AP and market-maker requirements into product structures, primary-market workflows, and platform design.

Requirements:

- 7+ years of experience in financial services, with exposure to ETF product development, product structuring, portfolio management, risk management, or trading.

- Strong understanding of multiple asset classes, including equities, fixed income, commodities, and digital.

- Demonstrated ability to lead projects and build effective relationships with internal and external partners.

- Comfort operating in ambiguous environments and delivering results under time pressure.

- Self-motivated with the ability to work independently as well as collaboratively within a team.

- Sound business judgment and decision-making skills, underpinned by integrity and emotional intelligence.

- Curiosity and a strong interest in financial markets, and the ability to learn quickly and apply new concepts effectively.

Benefits:

- Strong retirement plan

- Tuition reimbursement

- Comprehensive healthcare

- Support for working parents

- Flexible Time Off (FTO)

## Skills

### Required
- ETF product development
- product structuring
- portfolio management
- risk management
- trading
- financial markets

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