Associate, Afe Private Credit

Description

About this role

BlackRock is one of the world’s preeminent asset management firms and a premier provider of global investment management, risk management and advisory services to institutional, intermediary, and individual investors around the world. BlackRock’s mission is to create a better financial future for our clients. We have a responsibility to be the voice of the investor, and we represent each client fairly and equally. Constant communication with a diverse team of partners strengthens us and delivers better results for our clients. Continuous innovation helps us bring the best of BlackRock to our clients. BlackRock offers a range of solutions — from rigorous fundamental and quantitative active management approaches aimed at maximizing outperformance to highly efficient indexing strategies designed to gain broad exposure to the world’s capital markets. Our clients can access our investment solutions through a variety of product structures, including individual and institutional separate accounts, mutual funds and other pooled investment vehicles, and the industry-leading iShares® ETFs.

About Aladdin Financial Engineering (AFE):
Join a diverse and collaborative team of over 400 modelers and technologists in Aladdin Financial Engineering (AFE) within BlackRock Solutions, the business responsible for the research and development of Aladdin’s financial models. This group is also accountable for analytics production, enhancing the infrastructure platform, and delivering analytics content to portfolio and risk management professionals (both within BlackRock and across the Aladdin client community). The models developed and supported by AFE span a wide array of financial products covering equities, fixed income, commodities, derivatives, and private markets. AFE provides investment insights that range from an analysis of cash flows on a single bond, to the overall financial risk associated with an entire portfolio, balance sheet, or enterprise.

About Core Analytics Solutions (CAS):
The Core Analytics Solutions (CAS) within Aladdin Financial Engineering (AFE) creates and delivers Aladdin’s analytical capabilities to influence better portfolio decisions, differentiate products and solutions, and enable our clients to fulfill their financial goals. Our mission is grounded in our expertise of analytics, Aladdin (the firm’s proprietary platform), and technology. CAS works across our investment teams and client businesses, in partnership with BlackRock’s analytics, data and technology teams, to transform data into intelligence, deploy financial models on Aladdin, address client challenges with innovative technology, and deliver solutions across asset classes and client segments.

Our team is known for:

- Problem solving: We partner with investment, risk and client-facing teams to understand their business problems and provide creative solutions using Aladdin analytics
- Innovation: We sit at the intersection of finance and technology. We conceptualize, design and implement new capabilities to ensure that Aladdin remains the best platform for clients to understand and manage portfolios and risk
- Centralized & scalable operating platform: Aladdin is a global investment platform that helps us solve problems in a scalable and efficient manner

Role Description:
The team seeks a new security valuation & market analytics expert with a focus on Private Credit, who will be working closely with modelers within AFE to improve the accuracy and coverage of cash flow generation & advanced analytics for Private Credit assets. The person will coordinate with product managers and business operations to ensure our calculation engine’s offerings and capabilities are world class to meet the requirements of both internal and external clients in Private Credit space.

Overview of Responsibility:

- In partnership with our Modeling and Research team; design, test, and deploy financial models that produce cash flows and security analytics with focus on Private Credit models
- Enhance BlackRock’s Aladdin platform with new security analytics, models, and processes in response to market demands and industry events such as credit expansion, regulatory regime changes etc.
- Define processes for quality control and maintenance of analytics models to ensure best in class robustness and reliability of Aladdin’s analytics output
- Utilize advanced analytics and communication skills to collaborate with BlackRock's clients, portfolio & risk managers and articulate clear financial modelling specifications
- Understand rapidly evolve markets & stakeholder needs to influence analytics roadmap
- Understand production processes and liaise with partner teams to ensure smooth model deployments and maintenance
- Resolve complex analytical enquiries with a keen understanding of analytics and models
- Create and improve documentation for analytical models and processes for internal and external consumption
- Ment