Vice President Portfolio Management

**Description**

**About this role**

**Your Team**

Are you ready to join the world’s largest asset manager and lead the way in index investing?

BlackRock’s ETFs and Index Investments team (EII) safeguard over $4 trillion in global index equity assets across Global Developed Markets, Emerging Markets, Commodities and Real Estate Investment Trusts. We offer investors one of the industry's biggest choices of index investments.

Our investment teams include professionals who have deep experience within their respective markets, looking after the assets of institutional and individual investors alike. Our clients benefit from our portfolio management expertise and our culture of performance and risk management.

Our purpose is to help more and more people achieve greater financial wellbeing and it’s something we feel passionately about

**Your Role and Impact**

We have a superb opportunity for a Portfolio Engineer to join our Hong Kong-based ETF and Index Investments team. You’ll be responsible for all aspects of index equity portfolio engineering, including the day to day portfolio management of our index portfolios, risk and performance analysis and business process reengineering. We’re looking for individuals who are passionate about making a difference and have the know-how to make it happen - both as Students of the Market as well as Students of Technology

**Your Responsibilities**
- Perform daily portfolio management tasks; daily liquidity management, portfolio re-balancing, corporate action analysis, client activity; risk and performance monitoring
- Performance and risk management
- Work with our Global Trading teams to navigate rebalances and other large-scale investment events
- Help establish portfolio management best practices that can be shared globally
- Build our next generation investment platform
- Identify and drive operational improvements that lower risk and increase efficiency across the global teams
- Engage with business partners to provide thought leadership and advice to promote high quality client solutions
- Contributing positively to our culture and supporting diversity, equity and inclusion

**You Have**

We’re looking for individuals, from a variety of backgrounds, who have:

- A passion for financial markets and technology
- Knowledge of both equities and the indexing ecosystem
- 7+ years of investment industry/portfolio management experience
- Strong technical aptitude with an interest in technology solutions related to portfolio management, trading and data analytics. Python, SQL, or any coding experience preferred
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills
- High levels of self-motivation and a strong work-ethic
- High attention to detail and accountability, organizational and project management skills
- The ability to work quickly and accurately in a fast-paced environment
- A desire to work collaboratively and great relationship-building skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills

**Our benefits**

To help you stay energized, engaged and inspired, we offer a wide range of benefits including a strong retirement plan, tuition reimbursement, comprehensive healthcare, support for working parents and Flexible Time Off (FTO) so you can relax, recharge and be there for the people you care about.

**About BlackRock**

At BlackRock, we are all connected by one mission: to help more and more people experience financial well-being. Our clients, and the people they serve, are saving for retirement, paying for their children’s educations, buying homes and starting businesses. Their investments also help to strengthen the global economy: support businesses small and large; finance infrastructure projects that connect and power cities; and facilitate innovations that drive progress.

This mission would not be possible without our smartest investment - the one we make in our employees. It’s why we’re dedicated to creating an environment where our colleagues feel welcomed, valued and supported with networks, benefits and development opportunities to help them thrive.

BlackRock is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to age, disability, family status, gender identity, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation and other protected attributes at law.