Associate - CAS

About Core Analytics Solutions (CAS):

The Core Analytics Solutions (CAS) within Aladdin Financial Engineering (AFE) creates and delivers Aladdins analytical capabilities to influence better portfolio decisions, differentiate products and solutions, and enable our clients to fulfill their financial goals Our mission is grounded in our expertise of analytics, Aladdin (the firms proprietary platform), and technology CAS works across our investment teams and client businesses, in partnership with BlackRocks analytics, data and technology teams, to transform data into intelligence, deploy financial models on Aladdin, address client challenges with innovative technology, and deliver solutions across asset classes and client segments

Our team is known for:

• Problem-solving : We partner with investment, risk and client-facing teams to understand their business problems and provide creative solutions using Aladdin analytics
• Innovation: We sit at the intersection of finance and technology We conceptualize, design and implement new capabilities to ensure that Aladdin remains the best platform for clients to understand and manage portfolios and risk
• Centralized & scalable operating platform: Aladdin is a global investment platform that helps us solve problems in a scalable and efficient manner

Our team partners with:

• Portfolio Managers, Risk Managers, Traders, Product Strategists, Portfolio Consultants, Software Engineering, COOs of Investment teams and many others, as well as the external Aladdin client community

Role Description:

We are building next-generation liquidity, security similarity, and pricing models leveraging BlackRock's combined expertise in financial markets liquidity and quantitative The models we build use innovative machine-learning approaches, have real practical value, and are used by traders and portfolio managers alike You can help develop analytics solutions in the field of liquidity risk, which are utilized in managing most of the money of the worlds largest asset manager BlackRock, as well as Aladdin clients

The individual will work with risk managers, financial engineers, traders, and application developers to drive the development of liquidity analytics solutions to measure liquidity, price, trading costs, market impact and capacity across various markets Models are developed and maintained in BlackRocks data science infrastructure leveraging machine learning techniques to measure liquidity risk The role will require basic knowledge of financial modeling, liquidity solutions, and Python coding skills In order to succeed in this role, a high level of comfort with scientific text and an interest in the regulations landscape is required The role lies in the intersection of analytics product management, product management to achieve analytics deliverables for specific purposes (for example, new regulation rollout), and support of financial liquidity models

Overview of Responsibility:

• Deliver next-generation risk models on Aladdin
• Apply subject matter expertise of Liquidity models for various asset classes
• Drive agile framework with cross-functional teams to bring predictability and transparency across initiatives
• Demonstrate analytical and infrastructure understanding by articulating product requirements documents, participating in technical architecture discussions, and winning mandates to deliver commercially viable mandates
• Perform independent analytical validations by scenarios-driven testing, large-scale validations, and presenting the results for review with stakeholders assuring higher standards in quality
• Understand rapidly evolving markets & stakeholder needs to influence the analytics roadmap, interlinked with dependencies across the Aladdin ecosystem