Yardi Administrator
Team Overview:
The Distribution Solutions (DS) team's mission is to enable our distribution capabilities and drive client engagement through technology, information design, and process improvements that deliver our products, services, and brand promise to customers and prospects. More specifically the DS team creates and drives the vision, strategic development, implementation, and on-going support of Web, CRM Applications / tools across BlackRock businesses and regions. This team also manages client information and reporting systems and ensures reliable efficient management and access to those.
Job Purpose:
This position's main responsibility is to provide Solutions Center support and training for the Yardi Property Management application utilized by BAI (Real Estate), Bus Ops, and contracted 3rd party property management users. Also responsible for various project implementations including integrations with BLK proprietary as well as third party vendor solutions, on-boarding takeover portfolios, and adopting new modules.
Responsibilities:
- Act as a technology change leader evaluating, testing and implementing new releases and program enhancements to take advantage of the latest real estate software solutions available in Yardi, an accounting and property management application.
- Ensure consistency across BlackRock's real estate technology platform which is composed of a combination of proprietary and third party vendor solutions.
- Liaise with Yardi Systems developers and interface vendors during development and testing to ensure business user requirements are fully implemented and system quality is maintained
- Ensure that all users within BlackRock's Yardi environment understand how to perform Yardi-related functions in accordance with BlackRock policies, including relevant Sarbanes-Oxley and other compliance requirements
- As needed, utilize the resources of BlackRock's residential, commercial, budgeting forecasting and other account managers at Yardi Systems
- Provide training, documentation and end user support for real estate applications including troubleshooting and issue resolution
- Gather requirements and facilitate design for custom solutions, workflows, reports and other tools. Participate in software development with Yardi to design and implement creative technology solutions.
- Analyze moderate to complex business needs to design appropriate technical solutions. Combine business knowledge with in-depth Yardi functional expertise to improve automation and efficiency of business processes.
Qualifications and Skills:
- 2-5 years Yardi Voyager administrator experience
- Experience with Yardi System's 6.0 Commercial and Budgeting Forecasting modules.
- Experience with 7.0 Budgeting Forecasting a plus.
- 2+ years professional experience in financial analysis or information technology
- Business systems analysis
- Application support and training
- Flexibility to work with both technical and non-technical software users
- Familiar with Microsoft SQL and a working knowledge of Yardi scripting and Yardi report types (scripted, YSL, Crystal, Analytic). Yardi report writing skills a plus.
- Property management experience and/or experience working in financial services or investment management a plus
- BA/BS degree in business, computer science, mathematics or a related field preferred
BlackRock is proud to be an E-Verify Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer--M/F/D/V.
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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