Associate, Fundamental Equity Trader London, Greater London

About this role

BlackRock is one of the world’s preeminent 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. Our clients can access our investment solutions through a variety of product structures, including individual and institutional separate accounts, mutual funds, other pooled investment vehicles, and the industry-leading iShares® ETFs.

The Global Trading business, within BlackRock Global Markets, executes trades on behalf of all portfolio management teams at the firm. The team is organized along regions and asset classes, providing the best service to our investment teams and achieving optimal outcomes for our clients. We believe BlackRock’s size and scale serve as distinct advantages, uniquely positioning us to access liquidity and deliver consistently strong execution.

OVERVIEW:

The Equity Trading team is a vibrant, diverse, high performing team responsible for trading BlackRock’s equity and equity derivative orders. It is a market leader in its field and involves trading substantial volumes of cash equities, Swaps, ETF’s Futures, Options and other listed and OTC derivatives. It works closely with several investment teams covering a range of strategies including index, quantitative and fundamental. The Desk also manages core partnerships with the Broker community.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Execute Equity orders for several different strategies and understand the full trading lifecycle.
• Formulate trading strategies with PMs taking into consideration benchmarks, liquidity demands, risk and cost.
• Stay informed about market events and trends, actively sharing insights and perspectives with the investment and trading community.
• Pro-actively contribute, evolve and innovate the trading processes to enhance efficiencies, reduce cost and/or reduce risk.
• Learn to use and contribute to market leading trading and data platforms including Aladdin.
• Help drive trading forward from a technical perspective.
• Build relationships with the broker community.
• Operate as part of a highly collaborative and supportive team culture.

KEY ATTRIBUTES:

• Degree education; relevant certifications or qualifications
• 3-5 years of experience in Equity Trading with a focus on Fundamental/Active strategies.  Knowledge of UK and CEEMEA markets is preferred.
• Resilient team player with effective communication skills and demonstrated ability to work with multiple partners and stakeholders.
• Strong knowledge of investment strategies and willing to learn and develop in this area.
• Confident with technology and the ability to learn how to use multiple platforms and applications. Coding and data analytics experience an advantage.
• Ability to manage multiple relationships internally and externally with good negotiation skills.
• Enthusiastic and positive approach to challenges.
• Well organised, disciplined approach with a high level of attention to detail.
• Strong work ethic with high level of self-motivation and eagerness to innovate and evolve the trading team.
• Adaptable and comfortable working in an entrepreneurial and dynamically changing environment.

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.

For additional information on BlackRock, please visit @blackrock | Twitter: @blackrock | LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/blackrock

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.