Associate, Product Business Analyst - Aladdin Product Group

Job Description

About this role

The Aladdin Product Group (APG) sits at the heart of BlackRock, responsible for crafting, building, and operating Aladdin. Being a member of APG means working with the smartest in the industry to build innovative products that shape financial markets. We are 1,400 strong and are passionate about using technology to tackle our clients' toughest problems!

As a member of the Aladdin Product Management & Design team, you’ll be closely connected with the marketplace, our client community, and BlackRock business strategy to drive product direction. Sitting at the intersection of business and technology, our team works closely with Aladdin developers and users to innovate, conceptualize, design and pilot new capabilities to simplify our clients’ business problems. We recognize that strength comes from diversity, and will embrace your unique skills, curiosity, and passion while giving you the opportunity to grow technically and as an individual.

Business Analysts within Aladdin Product Management & Design (APMD) team perform detailed analysis to help the pairing of systems designs with business user’s articulated outcomes and acceptance criteria and produce requirements that enable Aladdin’s product offerings to be developed with high quality and efficiency.

In this role, you will partner closely with business users, product managers, and engineers to ensure harmonization between business requirements and technical specifications. We are looking for Business Analysts to focus on our Accounting & Performance product offering.

Your Responsibilities:

• Work with project managers, product managers, technical leads, business owners and developers through the whole SDLC
• Evaluate business processes, anticipating requirements, uncovering areas for improvement, and developing specifications for both near and longer-term solutions
• Produce key artifacts including business and functional requirement documents, user acceptance test plans and test cases
• Develop deep understanding of Aladdin’s architecture and platform to help build self-service, API first, high-scale solutions
• Write user stories using input from product management and development leads
• Manage user stories across the software development life-cycle as a key input into product roadmap reporting and project management stakeholders
• Write end-user software release notes
• Attend all key agile development rituals such as stand-ups, grooming, planning, demos, and retrospectives

You Have:

• 3+ years as Business Analyst on software development projects
• Strong interpersonal, problem-solving and planning skills, including ability to balance opposing priorities
• Familiarity with systems design, swim-lane diagrams, workflow mapping, etc
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to deliver presentations and communicate up and down the organization
• Ability to set and maintain priorities in a multi-task environment
• Experience in product demos, presentations and user training
• Experience working in Agile SDLC
• Ability to work and deliver results independently, self-starter
• Investment Management domain knowledge/experience a plus

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.

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: support businesses small and large; finance infrastructure projects that connect and power cities; and facilitate innovations that drive progress.

This mission would not be possible without our smartest investment – the one we make in our employees. It’s why we’re dedicated to creating an environment where our colleagues feel welcomed, valued and supported with networks, benefits and development opportunities to help them thrive.

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