Analyst AWT
Analyst AWT
Job Description
Functional Title: Analyst, BRS- Aladdin Wealth Tech
Location: Gurgaon/Mumbai, INDIA
BlackRock’s purpose is to help more and more people experience financial well-being. As a
fiduciary to investors and a leading provider of financial technology, our clients turn to us
for the solutions they need when planning for their most important goals. As of June 30,
2023, the firm managed approximately $9.1 trillion in assets on behalf of investors
worldwide.
Overview:
Aladdin Wealth Tech (AWT) within BlackRock is bringing the same risk capabilities used by
BlackRock's investment teams and sophisticated institutional clients worldwide to the
wealth management industry and retail investors, equipping clients with model
construction capabilities, risk monitoring tools, and portfolio construction & analytics.
Aladdin Wealth partners with clients to help them lead their enterprise risk, building better
portfolios, improving their value proposition, and institutionalizing their investment
process.
Candidate Responsibilities:
• Technical Implementation of the Aladdin Wealth platform including the coding and
configuration of Aladdin Wealth’s optimization engine, development of custom
asset classification schemas, modeling of complex derivatives (e.g. Structured
notes), configuration of Aladdin risk models and management of large volume data
processes to ensure successful daily delivery of the platform.
• Design technical architecture to integrate Aladdin Wealth into client’s existing tech
ecosystem through implementation of APIs, Extracts and User Interfaces.
• Consult with clients to understand their commercial business objectives and work
with them to implement our product in a way that helps transform their business
consistent with their strategic priorities.
• Develop models and build the technical infrastructure to support wealth native
complex derivatives including Structured Notes, Annuities, Alternative products etc.
within the Aladdin Wealth platform.
• Work with the global Aladdin Wealth team to help implement clients on the Aladdin
Wealth platform. This includes understanding our client’s business and their
requirements, and working with them to implement our product in a way that helps
transform their business.
• Enhance Aladdin Wealth Tech’s Funds Data and Analytics product: -
o Model and maintain risk analytics and governance structures for funds within
Aladdin.
o Leverage Aladdin risk models and the teams’ proprietary methodologies to
generate risk for global funds.
o Streamline and automate the funds data services, analytics and risk
generation process through production and engineering improvements.
• Develop an understanding of BlackRock’s proprietary risk models and serve as a
subject matter expert on risk analytics for products such as funds, equities, fixed
income, derivatives, and alternatives.
• Develop an understanding of wealth management landscape across the globe and
key industry trends and growth drivers. Consult with clients on the best way to
leverage Aladdin Wealth Optimization capabilities to maximize the growth potential
of a client’s Discretionary and Advisory platforms.
• Support technology initiatives within the team to grow the Aladdin Wealth Product
offering and improve scalability and efficiency of the platform.