BlackRock is a leading investment management firm dedicated to helping clients achieve financial well-being. The Associate role involves supporting the construction and management of credit portfolios, ensuring regulatory compliance, and enhancing portfolio management processes within the Credit team.
Responsibilities
- Support the construction and management of credit portfolios with daily flows including order raising, corporate actions, compliance resolution, cash management and hedging
- Ensure portfolio consistency across the platform by reviewing various common factors and security-specific positioning in relation to reference accounts and guideline constraints
- Monitor operating risk and ensure adherence to regulatory compliance
- Interact with capital markets and credit traders on best execution and liquidity needs to ensure proper implementation of strategies and trade ideas
- Prepare monthly and quarterly performance attribution, commentary and ad-hoc analysis for both internal and external use
- Build and enhance portfolio management processes within the Credit team and across the platform, including trading workflows and consistency tools
- Support PM desks in management of all fixed income funds, including continued investment process refinement and implementation and consistency of best practices
- Ownership of strategic projects and ad hoc analysis related to BlackRock’s systematic platform
Skills
- Master's degree in Financial Engineering, Finance, Economics, or a related field and one (1) year of experience as an Analyst or a related role
- In the alternative, the employer will accept a Bachelor's degree in Financial Engineering, Finance, Economics, or a related field and three (3) years of experience as an Analyst or a related role
- Must have one (1) year of experience with: Fixed income market knowledge, including credit markets (investment-grade and high yield); Fixed income derivatives including futures, FX forwards, swaps, and CDX/CDS; Credit capital structure and concepts of fundamental analysis; Macroeconomic knowledge; Factor-based risk modeling and return attribution; Applying quantitative concepts to portfolio management including modern portfolio theory and portfolio optimization; Statistical analysis; Python, Git, SQL, and Tableau; Excel VBA; Bloomberg; and Machine Learning, data science
Benefits
- An annual discretionary bonus
- Comprehensive healthcare
- Leave benefits
- Retirement benefits
- A strong retirement plan
- Tuition reimbursement
- Support for working parents
- Flexible Time Off (FTO)
Company Overview
BlackRock is an investment company that offers its services to institutions, intermediaries, foundations, and individual investors. It was founded in 1988, and is headquartered in New York, New York, USA, with a workforce of 10001+ employees. Its website is http://www.blackrock.com.Company H1B Sponsorship
BlackRock has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 18 in 2025, 34 in 2024, 8 in 2023, 37 in 2022, 31 in 2021, 27 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.