Job Details

ID #15441985
State New York
City New york city
Job type Permanent
Salary USD TBD TBD
Source BlackRock
Showed 2021-06-14
Date 2021-06-13
Deadline 2021-08-12
Category Et cetera
Create resume

Analyst, Hedge Fund Solutions Risk Management

New York, New york city, 10055 New york city USA

Vacancy expired!

Description

About this role

BlackRock Alternative Advisors (BAA), BlackRock's Hedge Fund Solutions business, manages over $28 billion in assets across absolute return and hybrid strategies for a broadly diversified, global client base. BAA emphasizes a long-standing application of consistent investment process and philosophy, across a 25+-year history. The BAA platform includes investment teams in Seattle, New York, London, Hong Kong, and Tokyo.

The BAA team is seeking a Risk Analyst within its Risk Management Team in either New York or Seattle. We are currently seeking highly qualified Analyst or Associate candidates. This individual will utilize a strong quantitative background to manage data processes and perform analysis of the risk and return attributes of both individual hedge funds and hedge fund strategies to help inform BAA's investment activities. Additionally, the individual will be responsible for the timely and accurate delivery of reoccurring reports and ad-hoc requests that support BAA's client servicing efforts. To meet this objective, the individual will work closely with all BAA investment teams including manager research, portfolio management, risk management, and operational due diligence.

Responsibilities
  • Collaborating with both external service providers and internal data and technology teams to ensure the timely and accurate collection, warehousing, and aggregation of hedge fund risk and performance data
  • Working closely with client service teams to compile hedge fund and portfolio data from assorted sources into reporting deliverables as requested by BAA's clients
  • Developing rigorous and scalable data management/analysis tools to support the data-intensive quantitative investment process
  • Improve the user interface and tools that consolidate hedge fund risk/return characteristics used by BAA and our clients
  • Assisting in the dissemination of insights derived from the analysis of hedge fund risk and performance data to key stakeholders such as manager research, portfolio management as well as other members of the risk management team

Basic Qualifications
  • 0-3 years' previous experience preferred, but not required
  • High degree of attention to detail and ability to manage complex processes, along with the judgment to balance risk/benefit tradeoffs
  • Meaningful analytical and problem-solving skills, with a degree in a quantitative discipline
  • Programming and/or database expertise; ability to transform concepts and ideas into robust, automated tasks
  • Comfort developing relationships across functional groups and business units
  • Familiarity with financial markets and quantitative investment approaches
  • High degree of motivation and commitment
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills
  • Ability to work independently as well as thrive in a team environment

Preferred Qualifications
  • An advanced degree in a quantitative discipline such as statistics, mathematics, finance, engineering, or physics
  • Prior experience developing R/Python/Tableau applications
  • Investment industry experience, preferably with hedge funds

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.

For additional information on BlackRock, please visit careers.blackrock.com | www.blackrock.com/corporate | Instagram: @blackrock | Twitter: @blackrock | LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/blackrock

BlackRock is proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status, and other statuses protected by law.

BlackRock will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records in a manner consistent with the requirements of the law, including any applicable fair chance law.

Vacancy expired!

Subscribe Report job