Financial Services Tech Consulting Manager - WAM - Aladdin

Financial Services Tech Consulting Manager - WAM - Aladdin

Location: New York, Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, Charlotte and Washington

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The Opportunity

You will leverage your extensive BlackRock Aladdin expertise to design, implement, and support cutting-edge investment management solutions. Collaborating with cross-functional teams, you will configure innovative workflows, manage seamless integrations, and ensure a smooth transition to the Aladdin platform, all while maintaining peak operational efficiency and compliance alignment. Your deep technical knowledge of Aladdin, combined with strategic leadership, will drive multiple high-impact implementation projects across trading, compliance, portfolio management, and post-trade functions.

As a platform owner and delivery leader, you will partner with senior stakeholders across technology and business teams to ensure Aladdin solutions are robust, scalable, and perfectly aligned with the firm's strategic vision. This role blends hands-on project leadership with the opportunity to shape the long-term roadmap within a dynamic and rapidly growing investment organization.

Your Key Responsibilities

Assist in planning activities with BlackRock and BlackRock Client key stakeholders to complete the following:

• Define overall project plan and lead multiple Aladdin implementation and enhancement projects end-to-end, from requirements through deployment and stabilization
• Lead BlackRock migration activities including environment readiness, data migration, regression testing and coordinating with infrastructure teams
• Define the Aladdin and Aladdin Data Cloud implementation roadmap, prioritizing initiatives that improve efficiency, data quality and compliance
• Drive and oversee Aladdin platform configuration, compliance rule setup, workflows, and integration points across modules
• Document BlackRock Client provided use-cases into a use-case catalogue
• Review asset class workflows provided by BlackRock Client to support organization of asset class prioritization plans within the Project Plan
• Assist BlackRock with creating/maintaining project key issue tracker to log & triage issues, liaising with Aladdin Client Transformation (ACT) teams to coordinate and drive for issue resolution
• Assist BlackRock with Governance reports (including status meeting updates, upcoming period deliverables, past due project items, percent task completion, and identifying responsible parties)
• Project Closure Report including BlackRock Client sign offs of the deliverables at the end of the project
• Manage a team of business analysts, providing mentorship, technical guidance and professional development opportunities
• Lead cross-functional communication between front, middle and back-office teams, translating complex technical topics into clear business language
• Promote best practices in system configuration, change management and delivery methodology ensuring consistent project execution across teams
• Stay current on Aladdin product enhancements, new modules and industry trends to proactively identify opportunities for system improvement and automation

Skills and Attributes for Success

Collaborate with client technology professionals and strategic third-party alliances to deliver cutting-edge technology solutions. Drive engagement management, execute projects seamlessly, and build strong client relationships while ensuring top-notch reporting and management.

To qualify for the role you must have:

• A bachelor's degree and approximately 5 years of related work experience; or a graduate degree and approximately 4 years of related work experience
• Your degree should be in computer science, engineering, accounting, finance or a related field; MBA or MS degree preferred
• A minimum of 5+ years of experience working at a financial services company or comparable experience working as an advisor to a financial services company
• Experience working in a Hedge Fund, Wealth/Asset Management company or as a Management Consultant in one of these companies
• 3+ years of hands-on Aladdin experience
• Demonstrated experience leading and supporting Aladdin implementations
• Demonstrated ability to manage and supervise a team of technology advisors through all phases of the technology life cycle, including requirements definition, architecture, design, development, implementation, conversion and testing
• Strong communication, presentation, client service and technical writing skills
• Comfortable researching client inquiries and emerging issues, including regulations, industry practices, and new technologies
• Strong experience in supervising and executing all phases of the technology life cycle, based on proven project management and testing methodologies
• Must possess a deep knowledge of technical architecture design and have a good understanding of technology tools and components to reasonably argue for and against all components (middleware, database, reporting tools, etc.) in financial systems architecture
• Willingness and ability to travel, you must hold a passport and a valid drivers license

Experience in the following areas:

• Aladdin
• Aladdin Accounting
• eFront
• Aladdin Data Cloud
• Snowflake
• Business intelligence tools e.g. Power BI, Tableau and SQL
• Definition and design of business and technical requirements
• System design, selection and implementation support
• Data mapping and conversion
• Proof of concept
• Quality assurance and testing
• Business and IT process reengineering
• Program/project management and implementation planning (PMO)
• Management reporting enhancement
• Enterprise application integration
• Package Implementation
• Reconciliation redesign or improvement

What We Look For

We are interested in leaders with a genuine creative vision and the confidence to make it happen. You can expect plenty of autonomy in this role, so you'll also need the ability to take initiative and seek out opportunities to improve our current relationships and processes. If you're serious about advising the leading Wealth and Asset Managers in the market and ready to take on some of our clients' most complex issues, this role is for you.

What We Offer You

At EY, we'll develop you with future-focused skills and equip you with world-class experiences. We'll empower you in a flexible environment, and fuel you and your extraordinary talents in a diverse and inclusive culture of globally connected teams. We offer a comprehensive compensation and benefits package where you'll be rewarded based on your performance and recognized for the value you bring to the business. The base salary range for this job in all geographic locations in the US is $128,400 to $235,300. The base salary range for New York City Metro Area, Washington State and California (excluding Sacramento) is $154,000 to $267,400. Individual salaries within those ranges are determined through a wide variety of factors including but not limited to education, experience, knowledge, skills and geography. In addition, our Total Rewards package includes medical and dental coverage, pension and 401(k) plans, and a wide range of paid time off options. Join us in our team-led and leader-enabled hybrid model. Our expectation is for most people in external, client serving roles to work together in person 40-60% of the time over the course of an engagement, project or year. Under our flexible vacation policy, you'll decide how much vacation time you need based on your own personal circumstances. You'll also be granted time off for designated EY Paid Holidays, Winter/Summer breaks, Personal/Family Care, and other leaves of absence when needed to support your physical, financial, and emotional well-being.

Are you ready to shape your future with confidence? Apply today. EY accepts applications for this position on an on-going basis. For those living in California, please click here for additional information.

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