Private Asset Market Risk Modeler, Vice President

Join a diverse and collaborative team of over 400 modelers and technologists in Aladdin Financial Engineering (AFE) within BlackRock Solutions, the business responsible for the research and development of Aladdin’s financial models.

This group is also accountable for analytics production, enhancing the infrastructure platform, and delivering analytics content to portfolio and risk management professionals (both within BlackRock and across the Aladdin client community).

The models developed and supported by AFE span a wide array of financial products covering equities, fixed income, commodities, derivatives, and private markets. AFEprovidesinvestment insights that range from an analysis of cash flows on a single bond, to the overall financial risk associated with an entire portfolio, balance sheet, or enterprise.

We are looking to hire asenior quant modeler(VP) to join ourPrivate Asset MarketRisk Modeling teamto drive the development of riskfactormodels for private marketinvestments.

The Private Asset Market Risk team builds a range of models, including private equity, real estate, credit, infrastructure, and hedge funds,with sophisticated econometric/statistical methods and tools.

Thesemodels have real practical value andhavea very largefootprint of usage across the entire Aladdin client baseincludingportfolio managers, risk managers, and allocators and influence investment activity.

As a result, we place special emphasis ondevelopingmodels that scale with our growing Analytics’ business and ensuring adherence to BlackRock’s rigorous standards of model governance.

This individual would have a strong background in quantitative research, have demonstrable project management skills as well as proven experience to work in a team environmentas well as collaborating with senior modelers from other groups/regions.

This person is expected to join as an individual contributing to the

design and development of our private market risk models, particularly intheprivate credit(i.e., real estate debt,infrastructure debt) space.

About the role

• Developprivate credit risk factor modelsand back test, document, and guide new models and methodologies through validation.

• Collaborate with partner teamson modelproductionization

• Build andmaintainmodel governance controls, including (but not limited to) model performance monitoring, model documentation, model remediations and supporting internal & external client model validations

• Communicate (verbally and in writing) with internal stakeholders and external clients on the design,backtesting, and usage of the models. Discuss model performance regularly, investigate exceptional model performance, diagnoseissuesand conduct corrective remediations

About you

• Extensiveexperience in quantitative field / statisticalmodeling. Experience withone or more of the following is preferred:riskfactor models and analytics,domain knowledge offixed income securities, applications of ML/AI techniques.

• Master’s or PhDdegree in a quantitative disciplineor one that relates to application of quantitative techniques in finance (financialengineering, mathfinance, etc.). Master’sdegreewith5+yearsor PhD degree with 3+years of experience.

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