This Associate level role will assist a senior Product Structuring lead in managing the design, build and launch of new ETFs. The team is critical to delivering on the ambitious product development timelines of our business. You will require:
- Close collaboration with multiple internal and external partners
- Creativity and discipline to take products through the governance and operational implementation processes.
This is an opportunity to join an exciting segment within the asset management industry. It offers fantastic exposure for someone looking to better understand and contribute to the evolution of the ETF ecosystem at BlackRock.
What will you be doing?
Designing, building and launching products at scale requires you to:
- Manage fund launches dynamically
- Draft and produce high quality fund disclosures and documentations to create transparency for our clients and reduce risks
- Be detailed, oriented and disciplined so we ensure all product activities go through the required governance steps
- Coordinate and communicate to ensure partners remain engaged with the pipeline, sequencing and launch timing. Identify and detail keys risks and constraints that may impact the launch of products
You will support the Product Delivery team:
- Understand market and regulatory change, integrating new obligations and processes into the team
- Lead workstreams of larger projects/initiatives affecting the wider EII business from a Product Delivery perspective and run to a successful close.
- Ensure procedures and build plans are continuously maintained and updated
- Continually grow and deepen your knowledge of the iShares products, their underlying indices and new product structures/operating models.
- Update and evolve trackers used to communicate with Partner teams
- Build and maintain strong working relationships with stakeholders and partners across BlackRock and EII
What are we looking for?
- Logical and inquisitive personality, willing to question and challenge to further understanding
- Organised and detail oriented
- A strong problem-solving mindset
- Ability to articulate complex concepts to partners, both in written and verbal form
- Experience of delivering business process change in a project team environment
- A basic understanding of either Equity, Fixed Income, ETFs or derivative type products
- Have some knowledge and understanding of the asset management processes life-cycle, in particular: trading, portfolio management, confirmation, settlement, transfer agency, accounting, regulatory compliance, risk, etc.
- Knowledge of the following an advantage:
- Index Investment and ETF product operating models
- Drafting of product descriptions and regulatory disclosures
- Understanding of UCITS regulation and Irish law
- Working within virtual teams incorporating internal and external partners
- IMC, CFA or MBA a plus
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