Associate, Forward Deployed Business Analyst

About this role

Forward Deployed Business Analyst

Your team

The BlackRock Transformation Office (BTO) is a global group of change professionals that delivers strategic transformation to help make BlackRock greater than the sum of its parts. We drive 1BLK outcomes by continuously connecting and being students of the firm’s people, processes and technology.

We are a versatile team with varied experiences and backgrounds, motivated by the challenge of finding solutions that benefit BlackRock and our clients. In BTO, we focus on developing our people, strengthening leadership and delivery skills, and broadening firm and industry knowledge. Projects and roles consider both successful delivery and individual development objectives and career aspirations.

Your role and impact

The Forward Deployed Business Analyst will work in cross-functional teams to reimagine, innovate and scale solutions that drive growth and operating models within the firm.

This is not a traditional business analysis role centered on gathering requirements and handing them to technology. The role combines business analysis, product discovery, business architecture and hands-on prototyping to turn ambiguous problems into tangible solutions that business users and engineers can test and refine together.

Successful candidates will combine the structured thinking of a business analyst, the prioritization instincts of a product owner, the enterprise perspective of a business architect and the bias to action of a hands-on builder.

Your responsibilities

In every role at BlackRock, you'll be expected to apply sound judgement and critical thinking to solve complex problems, adapt as the business evolves, and combine the curiosity to explore new approaches and technologies with the rigor to challenge the results. The scope of this role also includes the following responsibilities:

• Take ownership of complex, ambiguous business problems and rapidly translate them into testable solution hypotheses with measurable outcomes.
• Build structured business context covering terminology, entities, relationships, decision logic, data dependencies, controls and exceptions for use by subject matter experts, AI tools and engineering teams.
• Decompose business processes into explicit logic, controls and exception paths for implementation by technology teams.
• Create functional prototypes using AI-enabled development capabilities to discover requirements, challenge assumptions and validate future-state processes, data, policies and controls.
• Shape the target operating model, including ownership of data, governance, controls, roles and exception management.
• Partner continuously with business experts, product managers, engineers, architects, data specialists and control partners from discovery through implementation.
• Develop measurable project objectives, drive consensus, and communicate plans, progress and outcomes effectively to stakeholders and management across levels.

Your experience

• 3–5 years of relevant work experience in transformation, product delivery, business architecture, technology-enabled change or a comparable discipline.
• Experience in business architecture and operating-model design, connecting solutions to business capabilities, roles, governance, policy ownership, controls and exception handling.
• Proficiency in prototype-led problem solving and rapidly converting ambiguous business problems into functional prototypes that stakeholders can see, test and challenge.
• Expertise using AI-enabled development environments to accelerate analysis, prototyping, requirements definition and testing, including critically evaluating generated outputs, maintaining traceability and understanding where human judgment remains essential.
• Experience with iterative delivery and hands-on ownership through cycles of analysis, experimentation and solution shaping.
• Experience in financial services or a similar industry.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to clearly articulate objectives and influence outcomes.

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.

Guidance on AI use for candidates

At BlackRock, AI has long been part of how we work – enhancing decision-making, improving operations, and helping us deliver better outcomes for clients. We encourage candidates to use AI thoughtfully to learn, prepare, and work more effectively; but during our interview process, we want to focus on getting to know you through your own experiences, thinking, and judgment. To support you, we’ve provided guidance on when and how to use AI during our hiring process so you can approach each step with confidence and showcase your best self.

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.

To learn more about BlackRock, please visit Careers.BlackRock.com. We also encourage you to get to know us on LinkedIn, Instagram, YouTube, X, and TikTok.

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.