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Career Returners Programme - Edinburgh

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Edinburgh, City of Edinburgh, Scotland
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Edinburgh, City of Edinburgh, Scotland
Entry level
The programme supports individuals returning to full-time work through a six-month internship in investment management and accounting.
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About this role

About the BlackRock Returner Programme

The Returner Programme is designed to encourage and support a return to full-time work through a six-month paid internship starting in September 2025. The returner programme acts as a feeder to full-time permanent employment (subject to individual performance and market conditions).

How we will support you:

  • They will offer a variety of employee networks to help you integrate into the business and culture
  • Provide a mentor and buddy for your day-to-day questions
  • Provide coaching and peer support

To qualify for the program, participants must have the following:

  • A career break of at least 24 months (no upper limit). During your career break you may have been working small-scale around other commitments or have not done any paid work.
  • Prior experience in Investment Management or Financial Services
  • Must be authorised to work in the UK

Implementation Consultant

Job Background:

BlackRock provides accounting and regulatory data services to clients who have outsourced their accounting function to BlackRock. BlackRock is currently embarked on an exciting program of work to develop our accounting operating platform and to extend asset class coverage. As our business has expanded, we have a requirement for strong implementation skills and accounting knowledge to continue to extend our depth.

BlackRock is seeking a Vice President to become part of a team that will embrace your skills, eagerness, and passion while giving you the freedom to grow professionally. The successful candidate will be responsible for overseeing key functions of our client support model to implement new business onto our accounting platform. The role will focus on developing investment process solutions for new and existing clients alike and be responsible for bringing together the capabilities of other parts of the BlackRock organization as required.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Develop a thorough knowledge of BlackRock’s capabilities, products and services for Investment Accounting clients
  • Develop project plans for client implementations with measurable goals
  • Own and drive the execution of project plans for client migrations and implementations, driving consensus and communicating to partners and management throughout
  • Own and drive systems deployments, portfolio configurations (including char of accounts and relevant accounting elections), initialize accounting positions, review of positions initialized (book values, carry values, market values etc.), exception and breaks analysis and finalizing financial impact
  • Improve our ability to scale implementation efforts to ensure we can support multiple ongoing efforts concurrently, given our projected sales targets
  • Engage and maintain relationships with key partners across the firm to support business growth, implementation of new clients, and migrations and retention of existing clients
  • Represent BlackRock on cross-functional projects and working groups in support of delivering key business and client objectives
  • Ensure alignment of additional services with our Investment Accounting offering but supporting proper product integration in partnership with colleagues across the firm

Product Manager

Job background

Do you want to shape the future of financial technology?

The Aladdin Platform team is responsible for engineering and operating the core service layer that powers Aladdin, the central nervous system powering the investment decisions of both BlackRock and its clients, and a $1bn technology business that has significant growth aspirations over the next five years. As the pace of growth of Aladdin accelerates, we are dedicated to the speed of product delivery, predictability in execution, and quality. Our Product Management Office sits within Platform, and supports our engineering community by delivering well-defined products with clear roadmaps and efficient and reliable delivery.

Primary Responsibilities

As a Product Manager within Platform, you will be responsible for driving the transformation and delivery of services and capabilities that support Aladdin. You will define and own the product vision, roadmap, and success metrics, and will build relationships to develop a community of internal teams and senior leaders to influence prioritisation and execution alignment.

Closing date for applications is June 30th 2025

Our benefits

To help you stay energized, engaged and inspired, we offer a wide range of employee benefits including: retirement investment and tools designed to help you in building a sound financial future; access to education reimbursement; comprehensive resources to support your physical health and emotional well-being; family support programs; 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. We remain focused on increasing the impactful moments that arise when we work together in person – aligned with our commitment to performance and innovation. As a new joiner, you can count on this hybrid model to accelerate your learning and onboarding experience here at BlackRock.

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.

For additional information on BlackRock, please visit @blackrock | Twitter: @blackrock | LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/blackrock

BlackRock is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.  We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to age, disability, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation and other protected characteristics at law.

Top Skills

Accounting
Financial Services
Investment Management
Project Management

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