Implementation Specialist, Aladdin Client Transformations, Associate

Implementation Specialist, Aladdin Client Transformations, Associate

**About this role**

**What we do**

BlackRock's business is investing on behalf of our clients, from large institutions to parents and grandparents, doctors and teachers who entrust their savings to us. We are committed to our clients-period. Our promise is to offer them the clearest thinking about what to do with their money and the products and services they need to secure a better financial future.

That's why investors of all kinds have made us the world's largest asset manager, entrusting us with trillions of dollars, and its why companies, institutions and global governments come to us for help meeting their biggest financial challenges.

BlackRock runs on Aladdin. It has always been at the core of BlackRock. Aladdin® is an operating system for investment managers that seek to connect the information, people, and technology needed to manage money in real time. Our investment software combines risk analytics with portfolio management, trading, compliance, and operations tools on a single platform to power informed decision-making, effective risk management, efficient trading, and operational scale. Aladdin is used by a community of over 900 clients around the world. There are over 100,000 end users of Aladdin globally. Through Aladdin, the firm offers to clients the same technology and intellectual capital that BlackRock uses to manage investments day-to-day.

**Our Benefits**

We are passionate about our work. But we're also passionate about having a life. To help you stay energized, engaged and encouraged, we offer a wide range of benefits from financial wellness to personal wellness. Some of our favorites include:

- Flexible Time Off (FTO)
- Excellent company culture

**About this role**:
**Your team**:
The Aladdin Client Transformation is responsible for the installation and deployment of Aladdin and related products and services, globally. Aladdin transformations are high profile initiatives that require team members to have senior level exposure and play an active role in redefinition of investment organizations. A typical transformation project is at least as much about processes and implementing change as it is about investments & technology. We help clients achieve ambitious strategic objectives, which range from streamlining investment operations to integrating teams, to unifying their investment analytics & risk reporting framework, to modernizing their overall investment process. Aladdin's transformation model is unique in the sense that we take full responsibility for the Client going live on our solution. It also means that we develop true partnerships with our clients at the most senior levels, which continue to grow post go live.

**Your responsibilities**:

- Understand client objectives and goals and deliver solutions using Aladdin capabilities.
- Engage with key client leaders to redesign and deploy strategic business workflows across the investment cycle.
- Collaborate with the client's senior management team and provide leadership throughout the Aladdin implementation.
- Lead and document workflow design sessions for various asset classes, and assist in Aladdin configuration, testing, and user training.
- Participate in Aladdin business development activities and manage client communications regarding product changes and configurations.
- Actively manage internal project plans, scope, resourcing, budgets, risks, issues, actions, and decisions using standard tools supported by partner teams.
- Ensure client-side project delivery risk is managed, and client activities are completed to meet baseline landmarks in the joint Aladdin/Client project plan.
- Plan and coordinate all project activities to adhere to the critical path, ensuring successful delivery of Aladdin products on time, within budget, and to quality standards.
- Manage project change control, risks, issues, daily/weekly reporting, project resource tracking, and budget/finance tracking, while chairing project working groups and attending Steering Committees.

**Your qualifications/experience**:

- 3-5 years of relevant work experience with excellent organizational and communication skills.
- Business proficiency in English, with the ability to manage competing priorities and work both independently and collaboratively.
- Outstanding communication and presentation skills, with logical, structured thought processes and good problem-solving skills.
- Experience working with global teams and stakeholders, with sensitivity to cultural differences and time zones.
- Prior experience as a Project Manager and recognized Project Management Certification (PMP/PRINCE2) helpful.
- Excellent risk, issue, action, decision, and assumption management, along with budgeting, forecasting, maintenance, reporting, and management skills.
- Desirable: Understanding of the Asset Management industry, experience with PMS/OMS, trading platforms, market data, and programming skill