Aladdin Accounting Implementation Specialist

5 months ago

Edinburgh, United Kingdom BlackRock Full time

Description

About this role

Are you a highly motivated professional looking to elevate your career by joining the world's largest asset manager? Would you thrive in an environment that fosters positive relationships and recognizes outstanding performance, working with both internal partners and clients? We know how important it is to feel valued every single day and be recognized for your contribution. At BlackRock, we strive to empower our employees and effectively engage your involvement in our success. With over $10 trillion of assets, we have an outstanding responsibility: our technology and services empower millions of investors to save for retirement, pay for college, and improve their financial well-being.

BlackRock’s Aladdin® is an operating system for investment managers that seeks to connect the information, people, and technology needed to manage money in real time. The Aladdin platform combines risk analytics with portfolio management, trading, compliance, investment operations, and accounting tools on a single platform to power informed decision-making, effective risk management, efficient trading, and operational scale. Aladdin is used by a community of over 200 institutional clients around the world, including BlackRock. There are over 50,000 end users of Aladdin globally. The Aladdin Business is comprised of 800+ professionals responsible for implementing and supporting our Aladdin clients, sales and marketing, and ensuring the Aladdin Community fully utilizes Aladdin products through engagement and education.

PURPOSE AND SCOPE

RESPONSIBILITIES

Key responsibilities of the role include:

- Working with clients with a focus on building relationships with our client’s senior leaders (e.g., Chief Financial Officer, Controller, Lead Accountants), defining future state business processes, analyzing data sets within Aladdin and client legacy systems, implementing workflows and controls ensuring accuracy.
- Delivering BlackRock’s Official Accounting & Performance capabilities to clients by leading business process reviews, accounting configuration, portfolio initialization, downstream general ledger integration, and monthly accounting workflow implementation
- Developing project plans with measurable goals, driving consensus internal and client stakeholders to work towards common objectives for implementing investment accounting
- Shaping the evolution of our implementation methodology by developing a deep understanding of client/industry needs and partnering with development teams to enhance the platform
- Travel required, including international opportunities

QUALIFICATIONS
- 4+ years of work experience in the financial services industry.
- Experience building OMS / Accounting products and/or successful track record in technology implementations of investment software
- Structured problem-solving skills to identify and resolve client issues and gaps. Conduct detailed analyses that lead to strategic insights and enable accelerated progress towards the outcome.
- Leadership & organizational management skills to drive strategic large-scale accounting system and business transformations
- Client focused, proficiency working within a collaborative team, and be passionate about providing a high quality of service to the client
- Effective communication & presentation skills, with an ability to convey sophisticated concepts simply and clearly to clients driving commitment, team motivation, and adoption of new perspectives or action.
- Knowledge/experience in UK GAAP, IFRS, French GAAP, AUS GAAP and/or Statutory accounting for investments

Nice to have:

- ACCA, CPA, CFA, MBA preferred
- SQL, Python, VBA, and command-line programming experience a plus
- Project management experience (e.g., PMP) a plus
- Proficiency in French a bonus

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Our benefits

To help you stay energized, engaged and inspired, we offer a wide range of employee benefits including: retirement investment and tools designed to help you in building a sound financial future; access to education reimbursement; comprehensive resources to support your physical health and emotional well-being; family support programs; and Flexible Time Off (FTO) so you can relax, recharge and be there for the people you care about.

Our hybrid work model

BlackRock’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.

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