Managing Director, Global Head of Finance Platform Strategies

Company: ENGINEERINGUK
Location: New York
Posted on: April 22, 2025

Job Description:

Managing Director, Global Head of Finance Platform StrategiesEmployer: BlackRockLocation: New York, Georgia, United States of AmericaSalary: CompetitiveClosing date: 26 Apr 2025Sector: Banking and Financial ServicesRole: DirectorContract Type: PermanentHours: Full TimeAbout this roleBlackRock's Finance & Strategy organization is on a multi-year journey to leverage technology and data to enhance control, automate processes, and improve the user experience for both Finance teams and extended stakeholder communities around the firm. The goal is to build on progress to date and accelerate our path towards an agile, scalable, and insight-driven Finance & Strategy function. Through investments in data and technology we are modernizing our data infrastructure, implementing self-service dashboards, and enhancing analytics capabilities for finance, strategy and business partners.Role Responsibilities:

• Serve as a leader within Finance & Strategy, helping to drive the long-term management of Finance platform and technology initiatives across various functions including controllers, financial planning, expense management, treasury, and tax.
• Drive strategic vision and implementation of platform enhancements, working closely with partners across both the Finance & Strategy organization and BlackRock's Aladdin Engineering team.
• Provide day-to-day operational oversight and management of the platform.
• Propose, influence, and execute constructive and innovative solutions to meet Finance and business partner objectives.Success drivers and actions:
  • Solidify actionable business requirements and support strategic projects to ensure successful completion.
  • Deploy a wide range of financial applications, analytical tools, and automation solutions, including both third-party and proprietary solutions.
  • Advocate and advance best practices for processes and controls within the Finance ecosystem.
  • Understand corporate operating procedures, identify functional gaps, work with Finance leadership to close such gaps.
  • Partner with regionally-based Finance senior leadership and FPS global leads to help shape the Finance & Strategy platform strategy.
  • Building consensus to influence Finance leadership in support of critical business projects & priorities through presentation of clear business use case analysis.
  • Deep understanding of finance operating processes and promote a culture of innovation and process automation.
  • Provide timely ongoing project communications in a concise and direct manner to keep key stakeholders informed.
  • Partner with executive sponsors of initiatives and our sourcing vendor management team in negotiating contracts and SOWs.
  • Manage technology vendor relationships, including tracking performance vs. SLAs, and conducting internal risk assessments.Critical Skills and Experience:
    • Passion for technology, process and platform improvement, demonstrated through prior leadership positions and educational background.
    • Lead global teams across multiple time zones and manage large-scale initiatives in parallel; prioritize across multiple projects and assignments.
    • Develop project roadmaps and deliverables, providing updates to senior leadership.
    • Build, and then manage against, multi-million-dollar technology budgets.
    • Extensive experience supporting third-party Finance applications such as Oracle's Finance SaaS platform and IBM Planning Analytics.
    • Experience with enterprise reporting and dashboarding tools such as Power BI, and with ETL tools.
    • Strong working knowledge of generative AI capabilities, and a vision for use cases to drive insights and productivity within a corporate function environment.
    • Experience implementing process automation and machine learning capabilities within a corporate function environment.Personal qualities:
      • Proactive and dedicated to continuous improvement; assess and constructively challenge the status quo on an ongoing basis.
      • Effective communicator, capable of articulating and presenting both strategic and tactical objectives, including underlying business rationale, with appropriate audience sensitivity.
      • Collaborative, working in partnership with all levels of management to identify innovative solutions which will unlock capacity and enable Finance & Strategy colleagues to achieve their objectives.Our benefits:To help you stay energized, engaged and inspired, we offer a wide range of benefits including a strong retirement plan, tuition reimbursement, comprehensive healthcare, support for working parents and Flexible Time Off (FTO) so you can relax, recharge and be there for the people you care about.Our hybrid work model:BlackRock's hybrid work model is designed to enable a culture of collaboration and apprenticeship that enriches the experience of our employees, while supporting flexibility for all. Employees are currently required to work at least 4 days in the office per week, with the flexibility to work from home 1 day a week. Some business groups may require more time in the office due to their roles and responsibilities.About BlackRock:At BlackRock, we are all connected by one mission: to help more and more people experience financial well-being. Our clients, and the people they serve, are saving for retirement, paying for their children's educations, buying homes and starting businesses. Their investments also help to strengthen the global economy.BlackRock is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity to all applicants and existing employees, and we evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, creed, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity/expression), sexual orientation, age, ancestry, physical or mental disability, marital status, political affiliation, religion, citizenship status, genetic information, veteran status, or any other basis protected under applicable federal, state, or local law.
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