Investment Guidelines Analyst

Team Overview

The Portfolio Compliance Group (PCG) is a global group which sits within Aladdin Portfolio Services (APS) one of the core functions within the Business Operations Group at BlackRock. Portfolio Compliance is responsible for implementing controls & processes, to ensure we are portfolio compliant with all applicable regulatory and portfolio issued guidelines. This relates to trading and investments, including core Aladdin pre- and post-trade compliance and non-Aladdin trading compliance; mutual fund monitoring and reporting; global syndicate offering review; ERISA & Fiduciary monitoring, and Global Thresholds reporting.

The Portfolio Compliance Investment Guidelines team in London is primarily responsible for onboarding activities (extracting, analyzing, coding) and monitoring client, regulatory and internal investment guidelines on the firm’s Aladdin system for EMEA-based clients and funds. The group is engaged with and provides services to many other departments across the firm, in particular: Portfolio On-Boarding, Portfolio Management, Trading, Global Client Group, Operations and Legal & Compliance.

Role Responsibility

The specific role, based in Delaware will be primarily focused on Investment Guidelines activities for the US business.

Key Responsibilities:

• Pre-trade violation investigation & investment restriction overrides
• Post-trade violation investigation & resolution
• Account coding and coding reviews
• New account on-boarding activities
• Manual test execution
• Oversight of outsourced testing
• Identification of coding issues
• Documentation of procedures
• Process /system enhancements
• Maintenance of Legal & Compliance Restricted Lists
• Client certifications / attestations
• Projects as required

Development Value:

• Exposure to multiple business groups and investment products across Blackrock globally
• Daily interaction across with business groups including Portfolio Management, Trading and Legal and Compliance
• Opportunity to be a service champion for one of the core PCG internal clients
• Exposure to global regulatory regimes and jurisdictions
• Opportunity to be part of and develop within a truly global international group and firm
• Opportunity to take responsibility and ownership for projects

Experience

Knowledge / Experience:

Experience of working in the investment management industry and of investment products prefered

Skills / Qualifications:

Strong IT Skills

College Graduates with a background in finance or similar fields

Competencies:

• Strong communication skills
• Ability to self-manage workloads and work to deadlines
• Strong team player
• Analytical mind and approach
• Attention to detail
• Pro-active approach to issue resolution
• Ability to recognize individual and team objectives and goals
• Ability to facilitate compromise between conflicting requirements or points of view

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