Associate

BlackRock is a leading investment management firm dedicated to helping clients achieve financial well-being. The Associate role involves supporting the construction and management of credit portfolios, ensuring regulatory compliance, and enhancing portfolio management processes within the Credit team.

Responsibilities

• Support the construction and management of credit portfolios with daily flows including order raising, corporate actions, compliance resolution, cash management and hedging
• Ensure portfolio consistency across the platform by reviewing various common factors and security-specific positioning in relation to reference accounts and guideline constraints
• Monitor operating risk and ensure adherence to regulatory compliance
• Interact with capital markets and credit traders on best execution and liquidity needs to ensure proper implementation of strategies and trade ideas
• Prepare monthly and quarterly performance attribution, commentary and ad-hoc analysis for both internal and external use
• Build and enhance portfolio management processes within the Credit team and across the platform, including trading workflows and consistency tools
• Support PM desks in management of all fixed income funds, including continued investment process refinement and implementation and consistency of best practices
• Ownership of strategic projects and ad hoc analysis related to BlackRock’s systematic platform

Skills

• Master's degree in Financial Engineering, Finance, Economics, or a related field and one (1) year of experience as an Analyst or a related role
• In the alternative, the employer will accept a Bachelor's degree in Financial Engineering, Finance, Economics, or a related field and three (3) years of experience as an Analyst or a related role
• Must have one (1) year of experience with: Fixed income market knowledge, including credit markets (investment-grade and high yield); Fixed income derivatives including futures, FX forwards, swaps, and CDX/CDS; Credit capital structure and concepts of fundamental analysis; Macroeconomic knowledge; Factor-based risk modeling and return attribution; Applying quantitative concepts to portfolio management including modern portfolio theory and portfolio optimization; Statistical analysis; Python, Git, SQL, and Tableau; Excel VBA; Bloomberg; and Machine Learning, data science

Benefits

• An annual discretionary bonus
• Comprehensive healthcare
• Leave benefits
• Retirement benefits
• A strong retirement plan
• Tuition reimbursement
• Support for working parents
• Flexible Time Off (FTO)

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