Associate, Financial Planning

Description

About this role

Business Unit Overview:
BlackRock recognizes the importance of quality and accurate business intelligence needed to make critical business decisions at all levels of the organization. The BlackRock FP&A team is aligned to the firm’s overall organizational structure in order to appropriately engage with each business unit to deliver key financial management activities. The FP&A mission is enabling the firm to achieve its strategic and business goals from a financial perspective. Specifically, FP&A is responsible for driving:
Effective Business Planning - providing relevant and timely financial intelligence to business partners across the firm through a standardized and consistent set of performance metrics linked with common decision support tools, business standards, language, and rules.

Strategic Resource Allocation - helping to link operations and financial performance, tightly managing performance against strategic goals, and enabling execution of business strategies.

Management of Business Performance - developing and communicating business strategies by curating the definition and measurement of metrics for success.

Role Description:
**Responsibilities**:

- Lead FP&A activities for USCA region within GCB FP&A team
- Manage a team of high performing individuals to deliver reporting, analysis, and insight to the business
- Accountable for timely and accurate BAU delivery
- Hands-on with creating management reports (Financials covering flows, revenue, expenses etc.), including partnering on budgeting/forecasting
- Communicate effectively with key stakeholders, including global teams across Finance.
- Proactively find opportunities to optimize the current reporting structure and develop innovative ways
- Improve control environment through implementation and enhancement of automated processes
- Show desire to work in a constantly evolving, changing, and challenging environment
- Embrace and drive the BlackRock principles

Skills and Qualifications:

- MBA with proven experience (6-8 years) in FP&A, Variance Analysis, Stakeholder Management, MIS Reporting and Team Management
- Strong track record in team management (directly managing), growing talent and motivating diverse team
- Experience in handling large data and deriving meaningful insights
- Experience in preparation of flash report / dashboards and management review packs for senior management
- Attention to detail and a sense of urgency around deadlines
- Strong communication, writing and presentation skills
- High level of self-motivation, able to own and drive multiple assignments and willing to respectfully challenge the status quo
- Work and deliver under mínimal direct supervision
- Ability to work effectively in a team environment (not only FP&A team but also across Finance)
- Highly proficient in Excel. Knowledge of MS Access, PowerBI will be added advantage
- Experience with TM1, Hyperion, Essbase or similar multi-dimensional analytical tools

Our benefits

To 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 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.

About BlackRock

At 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.