BlackRock is one of the world’s preeminent asset management firms and a best-in-class provider of global investment management, risk management and advisory services to institutional, intermediary and individual investors around the world. BlackRock offers a range of solutions — from meticulous fundamental and quantitative active management approaches aimed at improving outperformance to highly efficient indexing strategies designed to gain broad exposure to all capital markets. Our clients can access our investment solutions through a variety of product structures, including individual and institutional separate accounts, mutual funds and pooled investment vehicles, and the industry-leading iShares® ETFs.

The BlackRock’s Fundamental Fixed Income group handles more than $1.2 trillion in fixed income assets. The platform offers an array of fixed income products designed to meet specific client risk and return profiles. Incorporating the expertise of BlackRock’s sector specialists, each client portfolio is tailored to reflect specific investment guidelines and objectives with respect to interest rate exposure, sector allocation, and credit quality.

Key Responsibilities:

• BlackRock’s Structured Credit and CLO investmentteam is seeking a Structured Credit Vice President to assist in all aspects of the execution and monitoring ofprivate corporate structured credit opportunities, a key growth area in the business.

• Analyze various private corporate structured credit transactions, including Synthetic Risk Transfer (SRT) deals, rated feeder funds, direct NAV lending, Collateralized Fund or Synthetic Obligations (CFOs/CSOs), and other LP interest securitizations

• Review credit risk, run ad-hoc stress testing, historical sponsor performance assessment, and periodic portfolio-level reporting to investment committees and management

• Conduct market and asset level research and due diligence on a sponsor, industry, and fund levels, deal structuring, financial modeling, scenario analysis, valuation, and ongoing monitoring to assist in the investment process.

• Assist in all aspects of investing and deal execution, including documentation, client outreach, legal and tax considerations, investment committee processes 

• Assist in designing and developing innovative structures that meet business and client needs

• In conjunction with Product Strategy, prepare marketing materials for new fund offerings and participate in conference calls and marketing road shows

Key Qualifications:

• Undergraduate degree in Finance, Engineering, Economics, Statistics, or Mathematics with superior academic record

• 5+ years of relevant and similar experience working in a sell-side or buy-side structuring role

• Experience required with MS Excel, building financial models and cashflow analysis

• Understanding of rating agency methodologies, comfort with legal documentation

• Candidate must be able to work in collegial, team-oriented environment

• CFA Charterholder or CFA progress, and experience with Python a plus