Quantitative Engineer, Associate

About the Global Client Business 

The Global Client Business (GCB) has two primary objectives. The first is to deliver the firm locally to clients around the world, to build our brand, and to represent BlackRock to external partners. The second is to listen and bring back insights and opportunities from what clients and key partners in the financial system are saying and thinking. Both elements require tight coordination with all other areas of BlackRock to succeed. 

A top priority is to bring the best of our investment and industry insight to clients to help them solve financial, portfolio, and commercial issues.  This priority is especially urgent given the investment, geopolitical, and macroeconomic regime changes our clients face today.  And as we do, we will also develop a global, systematic view of their challenges to help the firm as a whole anticipate and meet their needs.

The Global Client Business includes: 

• Regions of EMEA, APAC, and Latin America

• Client businesses in U.S. and Canada (Wealth Advisory, Institutional, Retirement)

• Global client teams (FSIG)

• Marketing

About this role  -Reporting & Analytics Associate

The Global Client Business manages its engagement with clients and colleagues across the firm through a client platform.  Given our growing business and rapidly evolving marketplace, it is important that the team be aware of both the world around them as well as ongoing evolution to our client platform.  This role will leveragetechnology and data to develop reporting that delivers actionable insights to the Global Client Business.The actionable insights will enable leadership to better manage their businesses as well as relationship managers know their clients better.It will directly shape how BlackRock sells to and services our clients and ultimately drives our business forward.

Key Responsibilities

• Refine ambiguous business questions into key performance metrics through a deep understanding of the data, our clients, and our business.

• Understand the purpose of reporting to business stakeholders and provide thought leadership on improving our global reports as well as supporting bespoke business needs. 

• Create high visibility dashboards, reports, and visualizations to ensure the timely delivery of valuable metrics and actionable insights.

• Act as a resource for citizen developers within the client business unit developing their own bespoke reporting

• Collaborate with other members of the data science and analytics community across the firm on best practices, code review, internal tools and process improvements.

Skills/Qualifications

• The ability to effectively collaborate with and present to both technical and non-technical partners

• Understanding of decision science, with the ability to drive optimal choices based on available information while eliminating bias

• Excellent SQL and Python/R, data analysis, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to understand statistical modeling techniques as well as machine learning

• Highly quantitative, with a keen eye for teasing out insights from volumes of data

• Basic understanding of experimental design (such as A/B experiments) and statistical methods

• Intellectual curiosity and a commercial mindset

• An upbeat teammate and driven self-starter, with a positive attitude and excellent work ethic.

• Experience of developing data solutions such as ETLs, databases, API’s to both source and provide data, and automation a plus

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Math, Computer Science, Statistics, Economics, Physics, Engineering or another quantitative field

• Experience in Tableau, QlikView, PowerBI or similar for delivery of management information and reporting a plus