Associate, Analytics Specialist

About this role About BlackRock:  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’s mission is to create a better financial future for our clients. We have a responsibility to be the voice of the investor, and we represent each client fairly and equally. Constant communication with a diverse team of partners strengthens us and delivers better results for our clients. Continuous innovation helps us bring the best of BlackRock to our clients. 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 and other pooled investment vehicles, and the industry-leading iShares® ETFs.   About Analytics Product (AP): The Analytics Product team empowers investment and risk management decision making for BlackRock and Aladdin clients through industry leading models, analytics, research, and investor workflows. The team delivers value for users, clients, and prospects by reliably delivering on commitments, crafting compelling research and applied solutions, enabling new opportunities with fit for purpose analytics, and applying deep subject matter expertise across the client lifecycle. In close collaboration with partner teams across the Aladdin Business, the team executes the analytics and product development lifecycle with end to end ownership, accelerating model development and delivery through agile processes, leading the deployment of new model features and infrastructure enhancements, driving adoption across the Aladdin community, and promoting model quality through disciplined processes and governance. Analytics Product also shapes the future of the Analytics & Investor Platform by defining the multi year strategy for analytics and investor workflows, building leading private markets and whole portfolio analytics capabilities, shaping analytics infrastructure to support the next phase of growth, and delivering Open Analytics and APIs to enable Open Aladdin. The team is motivated by commercial outcomes and industry leadership, powered by exceptional talent and deep subject matter expertise, accelerated by a strong embrace of AI technologies, and committed to launching rewarding careers. 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 & Product Vision: 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   Role Description: Analytics Product is actively seeking a New York based associate to serve as a security analytics subject matter expert as well as an owner of analytics as a product to develop impactful fit for purpose and enterprise grade solutions for Aladdin clients across regions and industries. The person will work closely with colleagues from the Aladdin Client Business, Aladdin Financial Engineering and rest of Aladdin Product teams to evolve our analytics capabilities across single security analytics areas. Overview of Responsibility: Enhance BlackRock’s Aladdin platform with new security analytics, models, and processes in response to market demands and industry events such as credit expansion, regulatory regime