About this role
Business Overview
The Financial & Strategic Investors Group (FSIG) is transforming BlackRock’s global relationships with large asset owners such as insurers, banks and sovereign wealth funds by supporting their evolving investment, portfolio, and business needs. The platform helps draw the best of BlackRock’s capabilities to advise sophisticated clients through their most complex challenges including. Today, FSIG comprises three areas: the Global Financial Institutions Group (FIG), Insurance Solutions, and Financial Markets Advisory (FMA). FMA delivers a range of capital markets, balance sheet management, and risk & analytics advice to banks, insurance companies and official institutions. FIG is the world's leading insurance asset management business. Insurance Solutions is an insurance specialist, product agnostic investment strategy and structuring team.
Position overview
The COO team is responsible for articulating and executing the strategic direction of FSIG and leading the operating cadence of the business. The team supports leadership to develop a deep understanding of our business performance and competitive landscape, communicate the story of the business to internal and external constituencies, build and execute on business and resourcing plans, and lead a range of initiatives to shape the forward trajectory of FSIG.
We are seeking a high-energy, self-motivated Associate excited to work in a fluid, fast-paced environment. Given the broad range of projects, the candidate should feel comfortable working with various stakeholder teams and engaging across functional areas. The ideal candidate must deeply understand the strategic initiatives, business financials, and provide strategic and operational support - including project management, supporting critical day-to-day business processes, resource allocation, talent practices, culture and communication initiatives. Effective execution and exceptional attention to detail are critical.
Specific responsibilities include:
Strategic planning and tracking: Collaborate with key stakeholders across the business in objective setting, establishing and tracking business KPIs, supporting the budgeting and forecasting processes, and driving communications
Team Governance: Organize and drive key team meetings, such as Leadership Meetings, Town Halls, Offsites, and weekly team updates
Talent management & communications: In partnership with HR and FSIG executive team, create and embed a global talent management and communications model that enables FSIG to recruit, retain, and develop high performing, engaged people; manage processes that enable FSIG to onboard and train people and monitor their employee engagement effectively and at scale
Business partnership: Drive further integration of FSIG with partner teams across COO network, Finance, HR, L&C, RQA, T&O, investments, and Aladdin to support FSIG's strategic and risk management agenda
Qualifications and Experience:
Bachelor's degree, 2+ years of experience
Highly innovative with a commercial outlook – always looking for ways to improve and enhance delivery, exuding a “can-do” attitude
Excellent project management skills covering project set-up through execution, implementation and closeout, with a strong orientation towards detail and an ability to recognize and solve problems.
Self-motivated, flexible and proactive team player willing to go the extra mile every time
Ability to work efficiently in a very fast-paced environment seeking to learn and improve as you go
Strong financial and quantitative abilities, including attention to detail and ability to work with large quantities of different data to identify and present trends and information to executive leadership
Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively both written and verbally across geographies and work with multiple stakeholders
Mature outlook with the ability to handle highly sensitive data in a discrete manner
Superb organization, time and project management skills with a proven ability to prioritize and ability to function effectively under tight deadlines and constraints
Experience in roles with a business analysis focus is useful as is exposure to complex, matrixed financial management and investment management organizations
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.
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