BlackRock

Analyst, External Relationship Management

Posted on: 12 Feb 2021

New York City, New York

Job Description

Description

About this role

Overview:
Attracting, motivating and retaining top talent has always been a priority for the firm. BlackRock emphasizes entry-level hiring and is committed to building our firm from within. Given our flat organizational structure, Analysts have the opportunity to work closely with seasoned professionals and benefit from their insight and experience.

Within the Institutional Client Business, we pride ourselves on creating, communicating, and delivering investment solutions for clients worldwide. To that end, we have teams of professionals with expertise in the many functions that combined make this effort successful and sustainable, including relationship management, marketing, sales, client service, and product development and management.

We serve institutional and retail clients in more than 60 countries, including pension funds, foundations, endowments, official institutions, insurance companies, sub-advisory relationships, high net worth individuals, family offices and private banks. Further, we work to cultivate relationships with key distributors of our investment products, such as broker-dealers, banks, registered investment advisers, financial planners, insurance companies and building societies.

The Institutional Client Business is responsible for developing and maintaining relationships with sophisticated institutional investors.

Key Responsibilities:

The responsibilities of an Analyst in the US and Canada Institutional Client Business include:

* Participate as a key member of dedicated client teams serving primarily Family and Multi-Family Offices
* Support Relationship Managers with all on-going sales, service and communication with clients and prospects
* Develop asset class fluency across BlackRock's product range - including fixed income, equity, hedge funds, real assets, private equity and private credit
* Cultivate strong relationships with clients becoming the go-to person for account specific information, which can include security level (bonds, stocks, derivatives) information, portfolio investment performance, investment guideline compliance, clarifications and modification, cash inflows and redemptions
* Interface with portfolio managers, investment product specialists, compliance officers, consultant relations staff, operations and portfolio administration personnel, to organize client meetings and coordinate presentation material content
* Use BlackRock's proprietary systems to gather security, capital market and economic data to create a range of presentation materials including portfolio review books, Board presentations and marketing materials
* Gather critical data to quickly respond orally and in writing to client information requests
* Write and publish client meeting summary notes posted to firm wide client relationship management systems
* Assist with new client on-boarding- supporting clients through the process of opening new accounts with BlackRock

Key Skills and Qualifications:

* Minimum of 1 year of experience with institutional or ultra-HNW investors
* Foundations of strong industry and investment knowledge
* Beginning knowledge across a wide range of traditional and alternative Investment products. BA/BS degree in related field (Economics, Finance or Accounting)
* Progress towards a CFA designation is strongly desired
* Has, or is willing to obtain, the series 7, 63, and 3 licenses

Core Competencies:

* Self-managed, highly driven by relationship management and revenue generation.
* Proven intellectual ability and interpersonal skills
* Able to establish credibility with and influence the institutional investor community
* Highly effective in forging working relationships with team members and business counterparts
* Excellent verbal, written communication and presentation skills
* Strong time management, organizational and problem-solving skills
* Strong professional and personal integrity

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

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, we help millions of people build savings that serve them throughout their lives by making investing easier and more affordable.



For additional information on BlackRock, please visit www.blackrock.com/corporate | 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.

BlackRock

New York, New York

BlackRock, Inc. is an American global investment management corporation based in New York City. Founded in 1988, initially as a risk management and fixed income institutional asset manager, BlackRock is the world's largest asset manager with $6.5 trillion in assets under management as of April 2019. BlackRock operates globally with 70 offices in 30 countries and clients in 100 countries. Due to its power and the sheer size and scope of its financial assets and activities, BlackRock has been called the world's largest shadow bank.

In May 2019, BlackRock received widespread criticism for the environmental impact of its holdings. It is counted among the top three shareholders in every oil “supermajor” except Total, and is among the top 10 shareholders in seven of the 10 biggest coal producers. In its 2018 annual letter to shareholders, chief executive Larry Fink said that his overriding duty is to make customers money, whatever the environmental consequences.