Analyst Associate – Developer Data Science Trading

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About This Role Description Team Overview BlackRock’s Global Trading organization was established 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. In order to achieve enhanced trading execution across the firm, Global Trading will also partner closely with their technology partners. The GT Analytics & Data Science team is chiefly responsible for building, measuring, monitoring and embedding execution quality metrics into the management of the Trading teams and businesses. Team members partner with various stakeholders within and outside of Trading and own the life cycle of gathering business requirements, defining suitable metrics, driving business consensus and adoption and ensuring delivery of reports and framework. We also collaborate with DS teams in BlackRock to develop analytics & frameworks using DS methodologies relevant to various trading desks and share them with our business stakeholders using industry leading Visualization tools like Tableau. Responsibilities Partner with various business stakeholders within and outside of BlackRock’s Global Trading group to solve specific business problems that involve building out metrics, analysis, and reporting. Own the end to end life cycle from business requirements to delivery Drive the design and adoption of performance metrics within all Trading groups Understand various transaction cost metrics and drive usage within Global Trading Work with Trading Management to drive key initiatives forward e.g. Best Ex reporting Help evaluate broker performance by generating quarterly scorecards for top brokers Build both global trading metrics and work with individual trading desks to address their specific product or work flow needs Work with varied groups within Global Trading, such as Capital Markets, TRIM etc. to drive common and consistent solutions Be the Global Trading interface to other groups within BlackRock to help determine the appropriate trading metrics to share with various groups for their purposes e.g. Client Reporting, Regulatory reporting Qualifications 3-5 years for Analyst and 6-8 Years of experience for Associate 3+ years for Analysts and 5+ years of hands-on SQL experience on any RDBMS for Associate 3+ years’ experience in the Financial services industry, in a Data Analytics role or a Developer position close to the trading/Investments workflow with knowledge of various asset classes(Equity, Fixed Income, FX etc.) 3+ years development experience in Python[Knowledge of working on creating ETL frameworks would be preferred] 3+ years of Hands-on experience using a BI tool(Preferably Tableau) to visualize data Excellent communication skills, with an inclination for business user interaction Desired Skills Aptitude in Data Science, Machine Learning & strong preference to work in applied projects Exposure to Cloud architecture (Azure preferably) or Cloud schemas (Snowflake) Strong analytical and quantitative skills Ability to multitask & prioritize deliverables. Experience in working collaboratively across various groups, time zones and regions 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.