Business Finance Head of Beta Strategies
The Business Finance team is part of the Global Strategy Planning (GSP) organization which combines high-level strategic insight with rigorous analysis to drive the BlackRock vision. The group partners with leadership teams across the organization to identify, analyze, and address complex questions and issues.
BlackRock currently seeks a Vice President to join the Business Finance Client Facing team based in San Francisco. The candidate's primary responsibility will be to lead Business Finance for US and Canada iShares.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Be the lead finance business partner with thought leadership, a proactive approach and an execution focus.
- Lead and support revenue and expense analysis. Understand and articulate key business drivers:
- Revenue: pricing, asset gathering and cross selling.
- Expense: product development, marketing effectiveness, vendor management, contract renegotiations, resourcing.
- Maintain a deep knowledge of business performance and the competitive landscape.
- Be the lead business partners for Beta Strategies executive management.
- Lead all FPA activities for Beta Strategies with a team of ~3 direct reports.
- Lead processes for monthly forecasting and reporting.
- Lead the annual planning process across cross functional business and finance teams.
- Actively manage the budget based on changing market conditions.
- Identify and facilitate opportunities for cost efficiencies.
- Role requires strong project management and organizational skills.
- Lead all project based initiatives that stem from the Beta Strategies executive management team
- Effectively communicate results.
- Create a cohesive story around financial and business results. Present data in a simple and clear manner. Advanced presentation skills are critical.
- Deliver and share results with peer level partners and executive level management across the Beta Strategies business and Finance organization.
- Effectively liaise with a wide variety of cross functional business partners including but not limited to Legal, Finance, Portfolio Management, IT and iShares business management.
- Identify new ways to address feedback and complex issues.
- Drive improved process and content around financial processes.
- Support and drive efforts to offshore resourcing.
- Role reports directly to the Director of Beta Multi Asset Strategies Finance and requires significant interaction with multiple business partners. Role interacts heavily with Finance colleagues across BlackRock.
Qualifications:
- 8 - 10 years of experience with a focus on business partnership, an analytical approach and an execution mindset. Experience at a top tier Investment Bank or consulting firm is preferred.
- Strong problem-solving, quantitative and analytical skills; strategic and creative thinking aptitude
- Strong leader with ability to deliver at a high level in an extremely fast paced environment. Ability to effectively prioritize urgent deadlines and multiple demands.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills. Ability to deliver succinct messaging via email and PowerPoint.
- Comfortable with ambiguity and working in a high growth industry environment.
- Capable of working effectively at all levels of an organization - with team members, managers, and senior executives – and on driving projects forward with an individual focus.
- Desire to progress career forward. Demonstrated track record of success. Management experience of at least two years.
- Strong financial acumen and ability to digest information and think quickly.
- Asset management or financial services experience is preferable. BS/BA, MBA preferred
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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 rigorous 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.
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