iShares Product Developer recruitment
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.
iShares
iShares is the brand name for one of the world's largest ranges of exchange traded funds (ETFs), which is marketed and managed by BlackRock. iShares funds are available to institutional investors and private investors.
iShares funds combine the advantages of stocks with the benefits of index funds. iShares can be bought and sold like any other shares listed on a stock exchange and provide instant exposure to an entire index through a single security. They therefore combine the flexibility and tradability of a share with the diversification of a fund.
iShares funds are a flexible mechanism for achieving cost-effective market exposure at the desired level and at the moment it’s required.
For further information please see www.ishares.com
iShares is looking for an individual to join the iShares EMEA Product Team.
Key responsibilities:
- Actively participate in and on occasion lead the product design and implementation efforts for the development and launch of new iShares products
- Actively participate in product enhancement efforts for existing iShares products
- Identify investment processes required to support new products and ensure that these can be supported by portfolio managers and other business areas
- Identify optimal fund structure within regulatory and internal guidelines
- Identify and document any system changes required to support the investment process
- Work to develop close links with other businesses and teams which form part of the build and implementation process to ensure timely and effective product delivery
- Provide support to the team in ensuring that new products successfully gain approval through the various boards and internal committees
- Ensure appropriate transferral of product information to other departments within the product development and the iShares business as part of the design and implementation process
- Contribute to the identification and implementation of improvements to the way in which new and existing products are developed
- Be a product champion, representing iShares product development internally and externally, where appropriate
- Support product development and management in responding to inquiries from sales, intermediaries and investors
- Actively participate in and occasionally lead smaller ad-hoc projects within product development which may relate directly to new products under development or to improvements to internal processes and procedures
Skills Qualifications:
- Experience within a product development or portfolio management function ideally within a UCITS framework
- Experience of managing multiple projects simultaneously
- Understanding of the asset management industry and the regulatory environment associated with it
- Understanding of back office functions, trade operations, settlements, fund accounting desirable
- Understanding of multiple asset classes would be preferable
- Understanding of Exchange Traded Funds would be preferable
- Knowledge of index construction methodologies and terminology a plus
- Excellent communication skills including writing and presentation skills
- Strong interpersonal skills
- Ability to pick up digest new detail quickly
- Quantitative aptitude and analytical skills
- BA / BS in Finance, Economics, Mathematics, Engineering or similar field.
- IMC a plus