Global Trading Data Strategy And Analytics - Vice President

About this role

What team will you be on?

BlackRock Global Markets group (BGM) was created to advance our investment processes and platform architecture, and ensure we most efficiently engage with other market participants in a collaborative, strategic way. BGM includes Global Trading, Securities Lending and Liquidity, Financing and Balance Sheet/Financial Resource Management. Additionally, Index Fixed Income and ETF Markets and Index Investments are matrixed into BGM to bring them into closer alignment with the firm’s other capital markets functions.

Within BGM, BlackRock’s Global Trading organization operates with the goals of enhancing trading standards across asset classes, streamlining, and leveraging counter-party relationships, attracting, and retaining top trading talent in the industry, and developing a One BlackRock culture around trading activities. Partnering with portfolio management and regional leadership teams, Global Trading strives to deliver benefits of scale, enhance processes and transparency, improve trading performance, and drive innovation to provide tangible benefits to our clients, investment professionals and shareholders.

Why is your role important?

The Global Trading Data Strategy & Analytics team is responsible for incorporating data-driven decision making into trading workflows. This involves building, measuring, monitoring, and embedding execution quality metrics into the management of the trading teams and businesses. It also involves setting and implementing a data strategy for the organization and crafting data powered automation workflows where appropriate. Team members collaborate with various partners within and outside of Trading, in the creation of analytics, governance and engineering of trading data access and in articulating a strong trading alpha story to our clients. We also work with various Research teams at BlackRock and the systematic trading team to conceptualize and implement automated trading solutions.

What will you be doing?

• Help lead pre-trade and automation workflows where data or model driven inputs are used to build trade routing solutions to incorporate automation and data intelligence
• Design and Create trading metrics, with focus on trading performance, and with a goal of articulating trading alpha effectively
• Help articulate and implement a data strategy for Trading, involving governance and data engineering to create common data access layers
• Establish organic data and analytics touchpoints with the rest of BGM
• Interact with traders, portfolio managers and other internal and external partners regularly on topics such as Best Execution metrics, workflow changes as it relates to performance, counterparty analytics etc.

What are we looking for?

• 2+ years of coding experience, preferably in python
• Experience using complex SQL queries and BI tools to build strong visualizations
• Experience with data science and trade automation a plus
• Knowledge of trading workflows and products
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with an inclination for and experience in business user interaction, especially traders and PMs
• Experience in interactions with senior and cross-functional partners a plus
• 6-8 years of experience in an analytical or data engineering role in financial services
• Knowledge of transaction cost analytics (TCA) a plus

For New York City only: The salary range for this position is $161,500 – $200,000. Additionally, employees are eligible for an annual discretionary bonus, and benefits including heath care, leave benefits, and retirement benefits. BlackRock operates a pay-for-performance compensation philosophy and your total compensation may vary based on role, location, and firm, department and individual performance.

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.

Our hybrid work model

BlackRock’s current hybrid work model is designed to enable in-person connections and collaboration that is core to our culture, while supporting increased flexibility for all employees. In line with local health guidance and regulations, employees are required to work at least 3 days in the office each week, with the flexibility to work from home up to 2 days a week. Some business groups may require more time in the office due to their roles and responsibilities. The health, safety and well-being of our people will always be our top priorities; we will continue to monitor local conditions and health advisories in making decisions about our work environments.

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.