Associate , Investment Operations Specialist, SMA (Separately Managed Accounts) Solutions

Overview

Support middle-office investment operations for BlackRock's Separately Managed Accounts (SMA) Solutions, focusing on reconciliation, exception management, data integrity, and operational controls across SMA portfolios.

What you'll do

• Perform daily cash and position reconciliations, investigating and resolving breaks and data discrepancies across internal books and records, custodians, and investment platforms.
• Monitor positions, cash, transactions, tax lots, pricing, corporate actions, and other portfolio data, supporting operational reporting, data-integrity monitoring, and post-trade controls.
• Partner with portfolio management, custodians, technology teams, and internal operations partners to resolve exceptions and coordinate timely issue escalation.
• Execute operational controls, maintain complete and audit-ready evidence, and identify and escalate material breaks, data-quality concerns, access issues, control weaknesses, and operational risks.
• Develop and maintain Standard Operating Procedures, while contributing to cross-training and knowledge sharing.
• Manage competing priorities, dependencies, operational commitments, and deadlines, communicating risks or delays proactively and providing coverage during periods of increased activity.
• Identify opportunities to streamline workflows and automate manual activities, using operational data to identify recurring breaks, capacity constraints, and errors while supporting testing, documentation, implementation, and control validation.

What you'll need

• 3-5 years of experience in investment operations, middle-office operations, portfolio operations, fund accounting, or a related financial-services function.
• Working knowledge of the trade lifecycle, including positions, cash, securities, corporate actions, tax lots, pricing, reconciliation, exception management, and post-trade controls.
• Experience investigating reconciliation breaks and resolving data discrepancies across investment platforms, custodians, and internal books and records.
• Strong risk and control mindset, including experience following Standard Operating Procedures, performing maker-checker reviews, maintaining audit-ready evidence, and handling sensitive portfolio data.
• Strong analytical, organisational, and problem-solving capabilities, with attention to detail and the ability to independently prioritise multiple deliverables and meet operational deadlines.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with internal and external stakeholders across functions and regions.
• Familiarity with investment-management platforms and advanced Excel skills.

Nice to have

• Exposure to separately managed accounts or tax-managed investment strategies.
• Exposure to VBA, Python, Power BI, workflow tools, automation, and process-improvement initiatives.

Details

• Location: Mumbai, India.
• Hybrid work model: at least 4 days in the office per week, with the flexibility to work from home 1 day a week.