Associate, Financial Institutions Group Relationship Manager
Location: New York, New York Team: Sales & Relationship Mgmt Job Requisition #: R255623 Date posted: Jul. 18, 2025
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About this role
Within the Client Businesses Group, we pride ourselves on creating, communicating, and delivering investment solutions for clients worldwide. We have teams of professionals with expertise in the many functions that make this effort successful and sustainable, including relationship management, marketing, sales, client service, and product development and management. The Financial Institutions Group (FIG) is responsible for developing and maintaining relationships with sophisticated taxable institutional investors worldwide. The group is one of the industry's largest managers of insurance company assets, and our insurance practice is a strategic focus of the firm.
Responsibilities:
- Coordinating day-to-day delivery of BlackRock's asset management and associated services, including:
- Accurate and timely client reporting
- Preparation for and participation in client market and portfolio reviews
- Design, ownership, and delivery of complex and/or ad hoc client requests
- Managing portfolio compliance to client guidelines
- Engaging BlackRock’s capabilities and organization on behalf of our clients
- Building and maintaining strong relationships with insurance and other taxable senior client counterparts, including:
- Anticipating client needs and prompt responses to client inquiries
- Cultivating an awareness of client specific investment and operational priorities and sensitivities
- Developing expertise in our client’s industry dynamics and trend as well as their specific positioning
- Learning fundamentals of insurance financial statements, regulatory and accounting trends
- Supporting new business and product development, including:
- Supporting account plan development and execution for current clients to expand relationships
- Developing knowledge of BlackRock products and services
- Initiating and designing client specific solutions
- Supporting implementation, including account set up, guideline development and establishing service needs
Skills and Qualifications - Ideal candidates will possess the following:
- Proven analytical and critical thinking skills
- Ability to think proactively and anticipate needs, issues
- Ability to multi-task in a fast paced environment
- Experience in contributing to high quality client service
- Knowledge of fixed income markets and instruments
- Knowledge of insurance investing and institutional clients
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- CFA Level I or more a plus
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.
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.
For additional information on BlackRock, please visit @blackrock | Twitter: @blackrock | LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/blackrock
BlackRock is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity to all applicants and existing employees, and we evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, creed, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity/expression), sexual orientation, age, ancestry, physical or mental disability, marital status, political affiliation, religion, citizenship status, genetic information, veteran status, or any other basis protected under applicable federal, state, or local law. View the EEOC’s Know Your Rights poster and its supplement and the pay transparency statement.
BlackRock is committed to full inclusion of all qualified individuals and to providing reasonable accommodations or job modifications for individuals with disabilities. If reasonable accommodation/adjustments are needed throughout the employment process, please email Disability.Assistance@blackrock.com. All requests are treated in line with our privacy policy.
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.R255623
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