Vice President, Senior Data Analyst - SMA Solutions
BlackRock · Sausalito, United States +1 · 3d ago
About this role
Team Overview
BlackRock SMA Solutions helps clients customize portfolios for unique tax, values-alignment, or investment exposures across direct indexing, fixed income, active equity, and multi-asset. We deliver world-class service to all of our clients, from wealth advisors to family offices to endowments and foundations.
About this role
The Senior SMA Data Analyst is responsible for ensuring the integrity, accuracy, and operational reliability of client and account data across Salesforce and Entity Master platforms supporting SMA Solutions.
This role sits at the intersection of business operations and technology, requiring a combination of hands-on data analysis, technical proficiency, and strong business judgment. The data analyst will play a critical role in resolving daily data discrepancies that impact account onboarding, servicing, and client workflows, while contributing to long-term data quality and automation initiatives.
The need for this role is driven by a continuous volume of data reconciliation issues that require dedicated ownership to maintain day-to-day business continuity.
The successful candidate will combine strong analytical and technical skills with business context to support account onboarding, client servicing, operational workflows, and strategic data quality initiatives across SMA Solutions.
Key Responsibilities
- Perform manual reconciliation of data discrepancies between CRM and Master Data Management across various client defining objects
- Resolve data breaks that impact operational workflows, including onboarding blockers and sync failures
- Support the development of automated reconciliation capabilities as part of the broader data quality roadmap
- Investigate recurring data issues, including:
o Record merges originating from Data Operations Team
o Duplicate records and conflicting attributes across systems
o Missing or incomplete MDM records
o Operationally significant contact conflicts
- Conduct root cause analysis and recommend scalable, systemic solutions
- Track and monitor ongoing data reconciliation issues and patterns
- Develop reporting to quantify issue volume, trends, and business impact
- Escalate high-frequency or systemic issues to Salesforce Engineering, Data Engineering, or Data Operations teams for resolution
- Utilize SQL, SOQL, and Excel to query, analyze, and remediate data across Salesforce and MDM datasets
- Perform validation and reconciliation across multiple data sources, including Snowflake where applicable
- Develop a strong understanding of business processes, including:
o Account onboarding and servicing workflows
o Client hierarchy and relationship models
o Operationally significant records and dependencies
- Apply business context to inform reconciliation decisions and prioritization
- Maintain clear documentation of reconciliation processes, issue types, and resolution steps
- Build process guides, playbooks, and onboarding materials
- Identify opportunities to streamline workflows and reduce manual effort
- Partner cross-functionally across business, data operations, and IT Engineering teams
- Act as a bridge between business users and technical teams to drive resolution of data issues
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Data Analytics, Information Systems, Computer Science, Finance, or a related field
- Strong proficiency in SQL, SOQL, Excel, and data analysis techniques
- Experience working with Salesforce or similar CRM and enterprise data platforms
- Familiarity with Snowflake, Power BI, Python, or similar analytical and reporting tools
- Strong understanding of data governance, data quality, and reconciliation processes
- Deep familiarity with relational data models, master data concepts, and complex entity relationships
- Ability to investigate data issues, perform root cause analysis, and implement scalable solutions
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder management skills
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience within the financial services, wealth management, asset management, banking, or brokerage industry
- Understanding of advisor, client, account, and corporate hierarchy structures, including intermediary and end-investor relationships
- Experience supporting client data, master data, data quality, or reference data management functions
- Experience designing or validating automated reconciliation processes and data quality controls
Our benefits
To help you stay energized, engaged and inspired, we offer a wide range of benefits including a strong retirement plan, tuition reimbursement, comprehensive healthcare, support for working parents 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.
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