Financial Planning & Analysis, Associate

Business Unit Overview: 

The Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) team is critical to helping senior managers understand the business of investment management at BlackRock. We guide and produce budgets, short and long-range forecasts; build and analyze business metrics and identify cost savings opportunities; deliver economic insight into the relationships between costs and revenues to improve the financial success of the business going forward. We are a valued and critical component of the management function, working at all levels of BlackRock to provide both a broad and deep understanding of the firm’s financial position and opportunities. 

Role Description 

Within the FP&A group, BlackRock is seeking an Associate to join the Finance Information & Analytics (FI&A) Team in Gurgaon.  

The FI&A team operates with a Center of Excellence (CoE) model and is responsible for efficient, thoughtful, and scalable production to meet operational excellence, deliver high-value business insights through front-end visualization tools, application of modelling and analytics to generate new insights at scale, engage with technology partners to accelerate data and process transformation. The group is also responsible for engaging with business partners to advise and offer expertise on the fundamental building blocks of how we manage the firm and report our financials.  

The role will be responsible for business performance reporting using different types of financial and business metrics to generate insights for the senior leaders at the firm. 

Key responsibilities: 

• Prepare periodic financial reports (i.e., weekly, monthly, quarterly) for senior management; includes quarterly earnings support, financial packs, country packs etc. 

• Partnering with FP&A teams on business & client specific reporting. 

• Assist with ad-hoc assignments and reporting requirements as they arise. 

• Build cohesive narratives in communicating results to senior management and present the data with high end insights. 

• Drive initiatives to build analytics for a better presentation of the financials to business.  

• Understanding complex data sets and being the storyteller to help business make an informed decision. 

• Building financial models or maintaining/updating existing models to support financial analysis. 

• Communicate effectively with key FP&A stakeholders and global teams across Finance. 

• Identify and execute on opportunities to improvise the existing processes/reporting to drive standardization across teams. 

• Build strong controls in existing/new processes and management reports. 

• Ensure accurate, complete, and timely completion of processes and reporting. 

• Be adaptable to a constantly evolving, changing, and challenging environment. 

• Embrace and drive the BlackRock principles. 

Skills & Qualifications: 

• MBA with proven experience (4-6 years) in FP&A, strong analytics, stakeholder, external, and management reporting. 

• Effective stakeholder management will be  for the role. 

• Advanced excel skills ; experience with Cognos TM1, MS Access, PowerBI/Tableau is a plus. 

• Experience in processing large data and deriving meaningful insights. 

• Demonstrated ability to use generative AI tools (e.g., Copilot/ChatGPT) to accelerate summarizing, quality checks, insight generation and building prompts/agents for different use cases. 

• Collaborative, team-oriented, service-oriented, solutions-oriented. 

• Ability to deliver in fast paced environment with tight deadlines and multiple demands. 

• Focused, attention to details and high standards for quality, efficiency, and accuracy in their work. 

• Excellent communication and presentation skills, both in written form and verbally. 

• High levels of self-motivation, multi-task and willing to respectfully challenge the status quo. 

• Professional, positive demeanor and a strong work ethic.