Aladdin eFront Investment Data, Analyst

About this role

BlackRock is one of the world’s pre-eminent 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 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. BlackRock's purpose is to help more and more people experience financial well-being. As a global investment manager and a leading provider of financial technology, our clients—from grandparents, doctors, and teachers to large institutions—turn to us for the solutions they need when planning for their most important goals. People join our firm from around the world to gain real-world experience while making an impact. Discover how you can have a career at BlackRock that's exciting, rewarding, and full of possibilities.

Role Description:

The Insight Data Service (IDS) team provides world-class expertise in the collection and validation of investment data for investors in alternative assets. IDS streamlines the exchange of data between limited and general partners, allowing investors the continuous access to accurate and standardized data. Insight Data Service is a part of Aladdin Business. The Aladdin Business is comprised of 1,200+ professionals responsible for implementing and supporting our Aladdin clients, sales, and marketing, and ensuring the Aladdin Community maximizes Aladdin products through engagement and education

We are looking for Process Driven Data Analysts with a financial background to work within a data governance team validating and reviewing financial information submitted to a large provider of risk finance in Luxembourg. Our client improves lending capacity of financial intermediaries and stimulates bank lending to small and medium sized enterprises by providing guarantees that encourage financial intermediaries to increase lending volumes. Financial intermediaries are institutions specializing in financial transactions such as banks, insurance companies, investment banks, pension, and mutual funds. The role will require the selected candidates to process and validate periodic reports from financial intermediaries. The candidate would, among other tasks, review warnings created around data submitted via Excel templates, investigate the warnings, and escalate these as required. The role includes daily communication with financial intermediaries and the Client to obtain reports and information for a successful review and inclusion of data in the Client’s database.

Key responsibilities:

• Responsibility for driving and delivering client experience and needs, through daily interactions

• Participate enthusiastically in the continuous improvement of our control environment, policies, and procedures, including writing and updating team policies, procedures, and presentations as necessary

• Obtain and review quarterly inclusion reports

• Validation of quarterly inclusion data in the Client’s in-house system

• Perform checks on quarterly inclusion data, based on predefined business rules

• Check compliance of data and reports with contractual terms and quality of the data supplied

• Daily communication with internal and external stakeholders to ensure timely validation with all business rules respected

• Trouble shoot and support Financial Intermediaries

• Perform data input activities

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, economics, or equivalent combination of education with 2-4 years of work experience, preferably in a multinational environment

• Customer and data focused with strong customer service and data management experience and a passion for service perfection

• Comfortable liaising with clients and internal stakeholder at all levels

• Excellent written and oral communication skills in English. Any additional languages, such as: French, Spanish and Italian are an advantage

• Ambitious, proactive problem solver, positive, ‘can-do’ attitude, and willingness to stretch and grow outside the comfort zone

• Excellent attention to detail and analytical skills. Ability to prioritize and deliver tasks as promised while maintaining high quality and consistent results

• Strong planning and organizational skills, operating and controlling own priorities to meet deadlines

• Reliable and trusted teammate with strong integrity and ethics. Driven to be a productive part of a high functioning, collaborative team, and to work in a high expectation and high impact environment

• Proficient with Excel and other MS Office application, and ability to quickly learn proprietary systems

Our benefits

To help you stay energized, engaged and inspired, we offer a wide range of employee benefits including: retirement investment and tools designed to help you in building a sound financial future; access to education reimbursement; comprehensive resources to support your physical health and emotional well-being; family support programs; 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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BlackRock is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.  We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to age, disability, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation and other protected characteristics at law.