Associate, Product Oversight

Description

About this role

About BlackRock

Elevate your career by joining the world's largest asset manager Thrive in an environment that promotes positive relationships and recognizes outstanding performance We know you want 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 about USD $9 trillion of assets, we have an outstanding responsibility: our technology and services empower millions of investors to save for retirement, pay for college, buy a home and improve their financial well-being.

This role will be based in our Mumbai, India location.

Team Overview

Americas (“AMRS”) Product Oversight and Governance (“POG”) is a unit within Global Accounting & Product Services (“GAAPS”). Members of the AMRS POG team are responsible for supporting more than $5T in total AUM and 2000+ funds that comprise U.S. iShares, Mutual Funds, CTFs and Canadian iShares and Institutional Funds (the “Funds”). Primary aspects of the support model provided by AMRS POG to the Funds include fund board governance, fund lifecycle services (launches, liquidations, restructures) fund treasury oversight and chief financial officer duties. AMRS POG works closely with several internal GAAPS teams, BLK functions and external stakeholders and service providers to deliver quality and value to our shareholders. Those interactions include the Funds Boards, custodians, auditors, accounting oversight, financial reporting, product development and business management, portfolio management, valuation, tax, legal and compliance, internal audit, risk and quality assurance, and multiple other organizations and functions.

The role sits within the AMRS POG group and will focus on the design, development, and execution of tactical and strategic technology solutions for both POG and the wider GAAPS community. We must develop a keen understanding of the functions both within POG and beyond in order to better comprehend the challenges faced by these functions.

Development Value

This role provides an exciting opportunity to help expand and further establish the AMRS POG footprint in Mumbai and partner with product groups across the globe, working closely with the AMRS POG teams in the US and Canada. The position offers individuals the opportunity to design and develop technology solutions using internal BLK platforms to create efficiencies and scale in POGs oversight functions.

Roles & responsibilities
- Partnership with AMRS based team to support POG functions.
- Drive opportunity, efficiency, and scalability for global POG presence
- Support the continued buildout of the local POG Mumbai team and the design of the target operating model.
- Oversight of outsourced functions including fund auditors, review performance of the service providers, and evaluate control environments.
- Review and challenge accounting policies and procedures to help evolve the operating model to standard process with a focus on automation and technology.
- Assist regulatory reporting teams with reviews of certain technical areas of fund financials and fund prospectuses.
- Support periodic fund distributions process, working closely with product development and tax teams.
- Assist with product lifecycle engagement for launches, liquidations, mergers, and other structural events.
- Develop oversight and monitoring process for various functions including custody, expense ratio reviews, escheatment, website data integrity, tax reclaims, and lines of credit.
- Contribute towards and prepare presentations to BlackRock governance bodies (e.g., fund boards) and committees.
- Support the development of comprehensive fund/group metrics for periodic reporting and POG brand building.
- Involved in the investigation of operating events and coordinate with cross functional colleagues.
- Provide fund accounting technical inputs across all operational aspects.
- Build good relationships with business areas within BlackRock to support effective cross-functional engagement.
- Contribute to ensuring compliance with all relevant BlackRock policies and with regulatory requirements impacting the funds.

Experience & Skills
- 5-10 years of 1940 Act investment management industry experience with fund structures such as open-and close-end mutual funds, interval, and tender offer funds, and exchange traded funds.
- Strong understanding of US GAAP and SEC regulatory reporting requirements.
- Working knowledge of Fund accounting, reporting and investment operations for a broad array of domestic and foreign equity, fixed income, financing and derivative investment holdings and strategies.
- Familiarity with RIC tax and fund distribution requirements.
- Good understanding of the fund valuation and associated transaction lifecycle and key control frameworks.
- External service provider oversight and control environment assessment.
- Fund audit experienc