Vice President, Compliance Advisory

About this role

BlackRock is one of the world’s preeminent asset management firms and a premier provider of global investment management, risk management and advisory services to institutional, intermediary and individual investors around the world. BlackRock offers a range of solutions – from fundamental and quantitative active management approaches aimed at maximizing outperformance to highly efficient indexing strategies designed to gain broad exposure to the world’s capital markets. Our clients can access our investment solutions through a variety of product structures, including individual and institutional separate accounts, mutual funds and other pooled investment vehicles, and the industry-leading iShares® ETFs.

Business Unit Overview:

BlackRock's Compliance Department protects BlackRock’s reputation and provides client focussed advice.  The department is a dynamic environment with the team focused understanding and advising on the impact of regulation in our business, with the objective of:

• Actively participating in business decisions to champion our clients’ interests and assist the business in translating compliance requirements and expectations into their daily work.

• Putting client interests at the centre of everything we do.

• Ensuring adherence to, and providing advice on, applicable laws, regulations, and BlackRock Compliance policies.

• Collaborating with the business to position Compliance centrally into their daily work.

• Encouraging and improving the compliance culture within BlackRock.

• Providing thought leadership, analysis, and advice on the impact of the regulatory framework on the business and its clients

• Developing and encouraging excellence within the Compliance team; and

• Actively developing the skills and careers of each member of the Compliance team.

Role Description:

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Vice-President to join our EMEA Investment & Trading Compliance team, which includes supporting our Portfolio Management Group businesses. This position will complement an existing team of expert compliance professionals based in London

Investments and Trading:

The Investments and Trading Compliance Team is responsible for providing timely and high-quality compliance oversight of front line of business activities supporting Equities, Fixed Income, Multi-Asset and Trading. The Investment and Trading Compliance team also provides regulatory oversight of BlackRock Capital Markets, Securities Lending, Transitions Management and Stewardship. The Investment and Trading Compliance Team are trusted advisers and are pro-active in understanding the businesses, their strategic goals, and initiatives.  This role is necessarily broad, and we provide professional compliance advice, support, challenge and oversight on business development, conflicts, market abuse, regulatory implementation, investment allocation, aggregation, reallocation, policy and procedure design.

Our ideal candidate will have at least 7 years relevant Compliance experience within the asset management industry or Investment Banking, and will have gained expertise in Equities, Fixed Income, Securitisations, Credit, as well as providing timely and value-add regulatory advice. A demonstrably successful record in collaborating with investment professionals, legal and product development would be a distinct advantage. The successful candidate will exhibit strong partnership, technical regulatory and relationship management skills. The strength of character to offer credible challenge will be essential, as will be the ability to engage successfully with stakeholders at all levels of the business.

Key responsibilities include:

• Providing qualitative compliance advice to all business units, ensuring that regulatory issues are managed and/or escalated appropriately.

• Liaising with portfolio managers, traders and other investment staff on regulatory matters including the eligibility of instruments within portfolios and the application of BlackRock’s compliance policies, e.g., trade crosses, error correction, fair allocation, best execution, inside information and wall-crossings and short selling,

• Liaising with portfolio managers and our Global Capital Markets team on regulatory matters including advising on application of the market abuse framework and applicable policies and regulatory requests for information.

• Working as part of a global team responsible for BlackRock’s maintaining information barriers, policies, procedures and restricted list processes.

• Working with global counterparts in the US and APAC to ensure a level of consistency globally, leveraging best practice wherever possible.

• Delivering periodic compliance training to our businesses on matters including but not limited to market abuse, information barriers, securitisations, and conflicts of interest.

• Preparation and delivery of management information, reports and presentations to department and business unit management, management company boards and regulatory bodies as required.

• Responsible for ensuring timely advice and support on compliance matters related to business projects and business strategy.

• Provide support and advice on, re-allocation requests, portfolio rebalancing, trade restrictions and internal crossings.

• Compliance representation at internal governance committees as required; and

• Working on, and leading where required, specified compliance projects and initiatives, in connection with the interpretation and implementation of new regulation.

The candidate will be a collaborative team player with strong communication, problem solving and analytical skills, along with high attention to detail and effective writing and presentation skills. A positive attitude and ‘can do’ approach are highly desirable.

Our benefits

To help you stay energized, engaged and inspired, we offer a wide range of employee benefits including: retirement investment and tools designed to help you in building a sound financial future; access to education reimbursement; comprehensive resources to support your physical health and emotional well-being; family support programs; 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 hybrid work model is designed to enable a culture of collaboration and apprenticeship that enriches the experience of our employees, while supporting flexibility for all. Employees are currently required to work at least 4 days in the office per week, with the flexibility to work from home 1 day a week. Some business groups may require more time in the office due to their roles and responsibilities. We remain focused on increasing the impactful moments that arise when we work together in person – aligned with our commitment to performance and innovation. As a new joiner, you can count on this hybrid model to accelerate your learning and onboarding experience here at BlackRock.

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.

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BlackRock is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.  We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to age, disability, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation and other protected characteristics at law.