Investment Accounting Implementation Manager, Director

About this role Are you a highly motivated professional looking to elevate your career by joining the world's largest asset manager? Would you thrive in an environment that fosters positive relationships and recognizes outstanding performance, working with both internal partners and clients? We know how important it is to feel valued every single day and be recognized for your contribution. At BlackRock, we strive to empower our employees and effectively engage your involvement in our success. With over $13 trillion of assets, we have an outstanding responsibility: our technology and services empower millions of investors to save for retirement, pay for college, and improve their financial well-being. In addition to helping our clients achieve a better financial outcome as an asset manager, BlackRock is an established FinTech with Aladdin® being used by some of the largest institutions and investors in the world. We provide comprehensive investment accounting software and services including financial and regulatory reporting. By deploying Aladdin®, accounting services are offered as a coordinated solution alongside Aladdin’s powerful capabilities to financial institutions globally. Job Purpose / Background BlackRock provides accounting and regulatory data services to clients who have outsourced their accounting function to BlackRock. BlackRock is currently embarked on an exciting program of work to develop our accounting operating platform and to extend asset class coverage. As our business has expanded, we have a requirement for strong implementation skills and accounting knowledge to continue to extend our depth. BlackRock is seeking a Director to become part of a team that will embrace your skills, eagerness, and passion while giving you the freedom to grow professionally. The successful candidate will be responsible for overseeing key functions of our client support model to implement new business onto our accounting platform. The role will focus on developing investment process solutions for new and existing clients alike and be responsible for bringing together the capabilities of other parts of the BlackRock organization as required. Key Responsibilities Develop a thorough knowledge of BlackRock’s capabilities, products and services for Investment Accounting clients Partner with C-suite stakeholders across BlackRock and client organizations to align on strategic objectives, implementation timelines, and platform adoption, ensuring executive sponsorship and successful client outcomes Own and drive the execution of project plans for client migrations and implementations, driving consensus and communicating to partners and management throughout Own and drive systems deployments, portfolio configurations (including chart of accounts and relevant accounting elections), initialize accounting positions, review of positions initialized (book values, carry values, market values etc.), exception and breaks analysis and finalizing financial impact Improve our ability to scale implementation efforts to ensure we can support multiple ongoing efforts concurrently, given our projected sales targets Engage and maintain relationships with key partners across the firm to drive business growth, implementation of new clients, and migrations and retention of existing clients Represent BlackRock on cross-functional projects and working groups in support of delivering key business and client objectives Ensure alignment of additional services with our Investment Accounting offering but supporting proper product integration in partnership with colleagues across the firm About You 8 years experience in financial services, familiarity with insurance clients a plus Strong working knowledge in IFRS/US GAAP/ International GAAP and/or Statutory accounting for investments, including securities, alternatives, mortgage loans, and derivatives Proven ability in bringing together cross-functional teams to achieve business goals A pro-ac ... (truncated, view full listing at source)