Data Engineering Associate

2 weeks ago

Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom BlackRock, Inc. Full time
About this Opportunity

As an Investment Accounting Migrations Specialist at BlackRock, you will play a key role in supporting our investment accounting platform migrations team, meeting the needs and evolving priorities of our clients. This exciting opportunity will enable you to deliver BlackRock to our clients by supporting our key strategic project to deliver our new, in-house developed accounting software. You will be responsible for supporting client onboarding, monthly accounting close processes, as well as improving this new process and controls using capabilities of other parts of the BlackRock organization as the need arises.

Key Responsibilities
  • Develop a detailed knowledge of BlackRock's capabilities, products and services supporting our clients. Keep abreast of and optimally communicate the implications of the evolving regulatory landscape and new accounting pronouncements to ensure compliance by our insurance company, across multiple bases of accounting i.e. IFRS, US Statutory, US GAAP, etc.
  • Operate on new, BlackRock-developed accounting software. Provide feedback and improvement ideas to enhance the functionality of new accounting software. Leveraging technology to assess system challenges and inefficiencies utilizing a strong aptitude for the understanding of how accounting data is supported through this new technology.
  • Support the migration of clients to our new software working in partnership with other BlackRock teams. Provide client-transition updates to internal groups highlighting any migration challenges. Support accounting on cross-functional projects and working groups in support of delivering key business and client objectives.
  • Contribute to the continual development of the investment reporting production and control processes to optimize efficiency, mitigate risk and incorporate business and product changes, ensuring procedures are maintained in line with all current practices.
Requirements
  • A bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, or related fields.
  • Experience with GIT or Azure DevOps.
  • 4+ years of experience in software development using Python.
  • Experience with scripting languages including Perl, and Java.
  • Knowledge of SQL, performance tuning and experience with Snowflake.
  • Experience with Cloud platforms like Microsoft Azure is a plus.
  • Exposure to cloud technologies, process automation and web development (Angular, React).
  • Excellent communication skills and able to convey information clearly and concisely to technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Strong work ethic and willingness to go beyond the scope of one's role to achieve team and firm objectives.
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to synthesize information, summarize issues and think creatively.
  • Sharp control/risk mitigation mentality with ability to know when to raise issues.
  • Willingness to challenge processes, propose solutions and call out issues.
  • Strong attention to detail, organizational and time management skills.

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