Associate, Index Fixed Income Credit Portfolio Manager

About this role

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.

• Working in the Indexed Fixed Income Credit team in EMEA. This is a book of 90+ portfolios and ~$150bn in AUM.
• Responsible for managing IG Credit & Emerging Market (External) portfolios across ETF, Index Mutual Funds and Segregated accounts.
• Ensure that all portfolios are managed to the highest fiduciary standards within their tracking error targets.
• Daily investment of portfolios client cash flows/custom baskets in a risk-controlled manner across the book of business.
• Implementing and sizing new issues in a pragmatic manner across the book of business.
• Managing large index events, rebalances and corporate actions in a risk-controlled way
• Managing fund transitions and transfers, working closely with BlackRock's Trading team to ensure optimal execution
• Working with partner teams to be on top of risk and performance metrics

• Partner with iShares and Product Strategy to build the IG Credit & Emerging Markets business both in terms of growing the existing book and contributing towards new client pitches
• Help drive team's ESG efforts from a Credit perspective.
• Be involved in designing and researching innovative products/solutions for clients in collaboration with Product teams.
• Be a leader in efforts towards building the future state of Portfolio Management by working closely with our Architecture team on the Algo framework and other automation efforts
• Contribute towards the client experience by participating in portfolio reviews and client pitches.

• 2-3 years professional work experience in a Fixed Income or Investments related role
• Keen interest in financial markets
• Knowledge of IG Credit and/or Emerging Markets Debt

• Strong process-oriented background including introduction of controls & procedures.

• Strong risk management awareness and ability to proactively manage credit portfolios
• Experience in nuances of Fixed Income benchmarks

• Knowledge of Aladdin tools like PfC, PfM, Dashboard and Explore beneficial
• Experience/ Understanding of ETF Create/Redeem process beneficial

• Coding experience in Python beneficial. Interest in data analysis/ visualisation using Tableau also beneficial.

• Successful experience working both independently and as part of a team in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment; drive to succeed.
• Strong interpersonal skills are a must as will have to deal with several internal teams such as Architecture, Capital Markets, Sales, Product Strategy, Risk and Quantitative Analysis etc.
• Demonstrated planning and organization skills and the proven ability to work efficiently under pressure. Ability to work with challenging situations in a mature manner.
• Impeccable attention to detail
• Strong analytical, organizational and project management skills.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Sound judgment, professionalism and discretion.