BlackRock Global Markets (BGM) - Vice President, Investment Performance

Company: ENGINEERINGUK
Location: New York
Posted on: November 13, 2024

Job Description:

BlackRock Global Markets (BGM) - Vice President, Investment PerformanceAbout this roleWhat team will you be on?BlackRock Global Markets group (BGM) was created to advance our investment processes and platform architecture, and ensure we most efficiently engage with other market participants in a collaborative, strategic way. BGM includes Index Investing, Global Trading, Securities Lending, Liquidity and Financing.Within BGM, BlackRock's Global Trading organization operates with the goals of enhancing trading standards across asset classes, streamlining, and leveraging counterparty relationships, attracting, and retaining top trading talent in the industry, and developing a One BlackRock culture around trading activities. Partnering with portfolio management and regional leadership teams, Global Trading strives to deliver benefits of scale, enhance processes and transparency, improve trading performance, and drive innovation to provide tangible benefits to our clients, investment professionals and shareholders.Why is your role important?The Global Trading Data & Analytics team is responsible for incorporating data-driven decision making into trading workflows. This involves building, measuring, monitoring, and embedding execution quality metrics into the management of the trading teams and businesses. Team members collaborate with various partners within and outside of Global Trading, in the creation of analytics, governance and engineering of trading data access and in articulating a strong trading alpha story to our clients. We also work with various research teams at BlackRock to conceptualize and implement automated trading solutions.What will you be doing?

• Design and create trading metrics, with a focus on trading performance and effectively articulating trading alpha
• Interacting with traders, portfolio managers and other partners regularly on topics such as Best Execution metrics, workflow changes as it relates to performance, counterparty analytics etc.
• Help articulate and implement a data strategy for Global Trading, involving governance and data engineering to create common data access layers
• Help lead pre-trade and automation workflows where data or model driven inputs are used to build trade routing solutions to incorporate automation and data intelligence
• Establish organic data and analytics touchpoints with the rest of BGM
• Help create and maintain a robust, scalable framework for client cost analytics which can be utilized by client reporting and other relationship management teamsWhat are we looking for?
  • 6-8 years of experience in an analytical or data engineering role in financial services
  • Experience using complex SQL queries and BI tools to build strong visualizations
  • Knowledge of trading workflows and products
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with an inclination for and experience in business user interaction, especially traders and PMs
  • Experience with data science and trade automation a plus
  • Knowledge of transaction cost analytics (TCA) a plus
  • Experience in interactions with senior and cross-functional partners a plusFor New York City only: The salary range for this position is $150,000 - $204,000. Additionally, employees are eligible for an annual discretionary bonus, and benefits including health care, leave benefits, and retirement benefits. BlackRock operates a pay-for-performance compensation philosophy and your total compensation may vary based on role, location, and firm, department and individual performance.Our benefitsTo help you stay energized, engaged and inspired, we offer a wide range of benefits including a strong retirement plan, tuition reimbursement, comprehensive healthcare, support for working parents and Flexible Time Off (FTO) so you can relax, recharge and be there for the people you care about.Our hybrid work modelBlackRock's hybrid work model is designed to enable a culture of collaboration and apprenticeship that enriches the experience of our employees, while supporting flexibility for all. 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. Some business groups may require more time in the office due to their roles and responsibilities. We remain focused on increasing the impactful moments that arise when we work together in person - aligned with our commitment to performance and innovation. As a new joiner, you can count on this hybrid model to accelerate your learning and onboarding experience here at BlackRock.About BlackRockAt BlackRock, we are all connected by one mission: to help more and more people experience financial well-being. Our clients, and the people they serve, are saving for retirement, paying for their children's educations, buying homes and starting businesses. Their investments also help to strengthen the global economy: support businesses small and large; finance infrastructure projects that connect and power cities; and facilitate innovations that drive progress.This mission would not be possible without our smartest investment - the one we make in our employees. It's why we're dedicated to creating an environment where our colleagues feel welcomed, valued and supported with networks, benefits and development opportunities to help them thrive.BlackRock is proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status, and other statuses protected by law.BlackRock will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records in a manner consistent with the requirements of the law, including any applicable fair chance law.
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