Model Risk Management Governance, Associate

Job description

About this role The mission of the Risk and Quantitative Analysis (RQA) function is to help BlackRock manage its fiduciary and enterprise risks and provide independent oversight. While executing this mission, RQA provides quantitative analysis to many of BlackRock’s businesses and helps promote the spread of best practice across the firm. The Enterprise Risk team within RQA oversees those risks which directly impact the corporate entity (i.e. BlackRock, Inc., or one of its subsidiaries), rather than the fiduciary risks assumed by funds/clients, such as investment risks and counterparty risks. The team’s focus includes but is not limited to operational risk, technology, vendor, model and market risk, stress testing for market risk and the quantitative estimation of capital adequacy requirements. The enterprise risk function remains closely engaged with the evolving regulatory environment and supervisory expectations, to ensure that BlackRock’s internal risk and control frameworks remain consistent with these, and to co-ordinate regulatory initiatives from an RQA perspective (for example, capital and liquidity assessments). The Global Model Risk Management function within Enterprise...