Private Markets Risk Governance, RQA, Associate

Business Overview

The Risk & Quantitative Analysis (RQA) group provides independent oversight of BlackRocks fiduciary and enterprise risks. RQAs principal objectives are to advance the firms risk management practices and to deliver independent risk expertise and constructive challenge to drive better business and investment outcomes.

We are recruiting for a newly formed Core Risk Management (Core RM) group whose objective is to advance risk management practices at BlackRock delivering scale and resilience to the risk management platform. This opportunity is to join the Core Risk Governance team which is a part of Core RM which will work with Investment Risk Managers and other BlackRock teams across the globe to enable efficient and effective governance and oversight of BlackRocks investment portfolios in accordance with Investment Risk Management policies and procedures

Role Description:

The Private Markets vertical within Core Risk Governance is dedicated to ensuring robust risk oversight and governance for private market investments. This team focuses on maintaining data integrity delivering advanced analytics and providing transparent reporting to support strategic decision-making. By establishing standardized data frameworks implementing advanced analytics and driving timely reporting it partners closely with investment teams technology and compliance functions to embed risk culture and deliver actionable insights across credit infrastructure and alternative investments.

Key Job Responsibilities:

• Drive end-to-end data acquisition and centralization for Private Markets portfolios (Private Credit Real Assets Infrastructure).

• Standardize schemas ensure data persistence and lineage and implement QC automation for accuracy and timeliness.

• Lead quarterly processes by defining inputs curating validated datasets and delivering risk-ready outputs for platform and business-level views.

• Develop and maintain analytics tailored to Private assets including exposure look-through liquidity and concentration metrics and early-warning indicators to support thematic risk reviews.

• Prepare and refresh risk dashboards and board materials covering key metrics (IRR TVPI DPI liquidity ESG look-through) with commentary on trends exceptions and emerging risks.

• Operationalize DQ checks (completeness validity reconciliation to source timeliness) with thresholding exception queues

Experience Skills and Qualification:

Should have a keen interest in solving difficult real-world problems analytics reporting and production. The candidate is required to have outstanding business communication and presentation skills. An attention to detail a good work ethic and ability to work as part of a team in fast paced environment are other important characteristics.

• MBA/ with additional certification in FRM or CFA will be advantage.

• 35 years of professional experience in risk governance data analytics or related domains.

• Strong understanding of private and public markets including investment structures and risk considerations.

• Expertise in data management including data quality lineage and governance frameworks.

• Proficiency in advanced analytics with experience with tech platforms

• Python & R programming experience would be an added advantage

• Ability to design and implement reporting solutions for portfolio monitoring stress testing and regulatory compliance.

• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills to collaborate across investment technology and compliance teams.

• Experience in automation and process optimization for reporting and analytics workflows.

• Strong understanding of risk governance principles and private market investment structures.