Vice President, Derivatives Operations - Delaware
BlackRock · Wilmington, United States · 1d ago
About this role
Your Team
BlackRock’s Outsourced Platform Services (OPS) team delivers middle- and back-office solutions that support the firm’s outsourcing services business globally. The organization provides operational expertise across transaction management, collateral management, payments, corporate actions, reconciliations, alternative operations, investment accounting, and data management functions. Through a global operating model, the team delivers operational excellence, risk mitigation, and scalable service to clients and business partners.
Within OPS, the Transaction Management Operations team is responsible for the confirmation and settlement of transactions with counterparties and custodians across global markets. The team serves a critical role in ensuring efficient post-trade processing, managing operational risk, enhancing transparency through data-driven insights, and delivering an exceptional client experience.
Your Role and Impact
As a Vice President within Transaction Management Operations, you will lead and oversee critical post-trade activities that support the successful confirmation, settlement, and lifecycle management of investment transactions. You will work closely with internal stakeholders, counterparties, custodians, brokers, and service providers to identify and resolve operational exceptions, mitigate risk, and drive process improvements.
This role combines people leadership, operational management, and strategic problem-solving. You will leverage data and analytics to identify trends, improve efficiencies, strengthen controls, and support scalable solutions across the post-trade ecosystem. Your contributions will help enhance operational excellence while supporting BlackRock’s commitment to delivering world-class service to clients and investors.
Your Responsibilities
- Manage post-trade operations across trade confirmation, settlement, collateral management, and related lifecycle events, partnering with counterparties, clearing brokers, Futures Commission Merchants (FCMs), and custodians to resolve exceptions and mitigate operational risk.
- Lead the investigation and resolution of trade settlement failures, collateral disputes, Mark-to-Market (MTM) exceptions, and contractual discrepancies through collaboration with internal and external stakeholders.
- Utilize data analysis and operational metrics to identify trends, enhance transparency, support decision-making, and improve team productivity, efficiency, and controls.
- Evaluate operational processes, procedures, and systems to identify opportunities for automation, standardization, scalability, and continuous improvement.
- Assess the impact of upstream process changes on reconciliations and operational workflows, identifying risks and implementing solutions to strengthen operational performance.
- Maintain process documentation, provide training and development support to team members, and balance people leadership with functional management responsibilities to deliver high-quality service and results.
Your Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Accounting, or a related field; Master of Business Administration (MBA) preferred.
- 5+ years of investment operations experience with demonstrated expertise in trade confirmation, settlement, and post-trade lifecycle management.
- Strong understanding of collateral management, margin processing, custody operations, and exception management.
- Experience investigating and resolving settlement breaks, trade fails, and operational risk events across multiple asset classes.
- Proven ability to leverage data analysis to identify process improvement opportunities and drive automation, efficiency, and risk reduction initiatives.
- Demonstrated leadership, stakeholder management, and communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with clients, counterparties, custodians, brokers, and internal teams.
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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