Associate, Business Analyst - Finance Transformation

Associate, Business Analyst - Finance Transformation

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About this role

Summary

BlackRock's Finance organization is on a multi-year journey to leverage technology and data to strengthen our control environment, automate and enhance processes and digitalize our employee and stakeholder user experience. We seek to build on progress to date to accelerate our path towards an agile, scalable and insight-driven Finance function. Our investments in data and technology create opportunities to modernize our data infrastructure; implement self-service dashboards and enhanced analytics for finance and business manager value.

Team

The role of the Finance Strategic Technology Initiatives (FSTI) team is to help drive transformative change, both within the Finance organization and with respect to how Finance delivers insights to business management teams across BlackRock. As a member of FSTI, you will own delivery of specific critical initiatives framed by clear goals and business requirements, measures of success and project plans which ensure each project can be executed successfully on a timely basis. Team members must be self-starters who are passionate about continuous improvement and who will productively collaborate to assess and respectfully challenge the status quo on an ongoing basis. Success is evaluated through a track record of proposing, influencing and executing constructive and innovative solutions that deliver against Finance and business partner objectives. The team works in partnership to find creative ways to unlock capacity to enable finance colleagues to do their best work. Specific areas of focus will include enhancing finance data model architecture and associated change management processes for both data and meta data elements.

Your Responsibilities

• Partner with key project stakeholders to define project scope and primary objectives based on business outcome expectations
• Communicate clearly with ability to make complex concepts simple and relatable to day-to-day stakeholder experience
• Synthesize data, connecting dots to provide context and insight
• Proven ability to drive standardization, a control framework and constantly evaluate systems, processes and procedures for efficiency opportunities, making recommendations for improvements
• Explore opportunities to enhance data sourcing, data governance and document business requirements
• Ownership in designing, building and handing over projects, while others you will retain ownership and execution for
• Collaborate in a thoughtful and empathetic manner, maintaining focus on outcome delivery within timeline expectations
• Influence partners to drive rapid consensus
• Optimize for iterative delivery and product risk to drive value across user experience, business value, technical feasibility and business viability.
• Lead initiatives across a diversity of methodologies to ensure critical path time to market.

Skills Qualifications

• Problem-solving, quantitative, process driven and analytical skills; strategic and creative thinking
• Strong business and data analysis skills
• Ability to deliver well-structured analyses and clearly present findings
• Superior organizational skills; ability to multi-task and flex with changing priorities
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to synthesize complex ideas into clear messages and the acumen to lead discussions with senior leaders
• Proven track record of driving strategic transformation at the enterprise level
• Strong project management skills covering project inception through execution, implementation and closeout
• History of effective multi-tasking, expectation setting, cross-functional coordination, proper issue escalation and successful performance under pressure

Character Qualities

• Demonstrated commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion
• Team-first attitude, collaborative instincts, strong interpersonal skills
• Perform well under pressure of fast-paced, high-intensity environment
• Action-oriented; willing to roll up sleeves to get the job done
• Confidence to evidence courage of convictions while able to engage in respectful debate
• Unquestioned integrity, guided by the highest ethical standards

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

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.