Associate, Business Manager

Associate, Business Manager
BlackRock Financial Management, Inc. — New York, NY

BlackRock Financial Management, Inc. is hiring a(n) Associate, Business Manager (ref. Code R266418 in New York, NY).Duties: Align technology expenses with forecasts and annual budgets through financial, variance, run-rate, and trend analysis across major cost categories, including contingent workforce and recurring spend. Apply accounting best practices and end-to-end P&L principles, including coordination of requisitions, purchase orders, accruals, actuals, and financial controls to ensure data accuracy, compliance, and integrity. Analyze large-scale financial and vendor datasets across enterprise systems (e.g., Microsoft Excel, Power BI, Coupa, ServiceNow, Workday), ensuring reconciliation, auditability, and consistent data definitions. Support revenue reporting and model maintenance to ensure alignment between cost and revenue drivers and consistency in financial narratives used for planning and reporting. Design and operate business intelligence platforms (including Power BI) to deliver standardized, cross-platform reporting. Translate stakeholder requirements into clear financial insights, decision-support materials, and KPI/OKR frameworks that measure financial performance, operational efficiency, and progress against strategic objectives. Support end-to-end procurement and governance workflows, including purchasing, approvals, vendor data management, and financial reporting. Identify cost drivers, surface risks, and recommend optimization opportunities. Conduct vendor spend analytics and strategy evaluations, including analysis of utilization trends, pricing structures, renewal timing, and financial impact, to inform sourcing, negotiation, and commercial decisions. Develop high-quality presentations to communicate financial insights, governance themes, and strategic priorities to senior leadership, and drive follow-up actions based on discussion outcomes. Track Aladdin's software spend by understanding each product's business purpose, alignment to technical architecture, and contribution to the broader budget and investment narrative, including insight into consumption patterns, renewal cycles, and cost drivers. Provide transparency on monthly technology consulting activity through partnership with internal stakeholders, HR, finance, and external vendors; support tracking of onboarding, offboarding, and expense attribution. Maintain designated datasets for technology expense tracking and reporting, reconciling financial, procurement, and workforce data across multiple systems. Adhere to corporate policies, ethical standards, and regulatory requirements across all financial and operational workflows.REQUIREMENTS: Employer will accept a Master's degree in Finance, Management, or a related field, and 48 months of experience in job offered, or closely related role. ALT REQUIREMENTS: Bachelor's degree in Finance, Management, or a related field, and 72 months of experience in job offered or closely related role. Must have four (4) years of experience with: The end-to-end P&L lifecycle, including requisitions, purchase orders, accruals, invoices and actuals, and budget impacts; Visualization tools including Power BI and Tableau for delivering standardized reporting and translating data into actionable insights; Enterprise planning tools including TM1, SAP, Cognos, or Adaptive Insights, including forecasting models and reporting workflows; Programming experience using SQL and Python to query, transform, and analyze data and automate reporting workflows; PowerPoint for developing visual presentations that communicate financial insights and strategic priorities to senior leadership; Organizational, financial, and headcount datasets using Workday, including Workday planning tools such as Adaptive Insights to support forecasting, reporting, and scenario analysis; and Global software capitalization practices, including coordination with internal teams and outside vendors.Must have two (2) years of experience with: Aladdin e os