Job Description

Description About this role  The EMEA Indexed Fixed Income Portfolio Management team has responsibility for managing 350+ accounts, $500bn AUM, covering a wide variety of product types (Mutual funds, Institutional pooled funds, Exchange traded funds and Segregated accounts). The team is responsible for ensuring that the portfolios meet their investment objectives and are managed in a consistent and risk-controlled manner.Role Responsibilities:Working within the Indexed Fixed Income Credit team in EMEA. This is a book of 80+ portfolios and ~$140bn in AUM.Be jointly responsible for managing IG and HY Credit portfolios across ETF, Index Mutual Funds and Segregated accounts.Ensure that all portfolios are managed to the highest fiduciary standards within their tracking error targets.Daily investment of portfolios client cash flows/custom baskets in a risk-controlled manner across the book of business.Implementing and sizing new issues in a pragmatic manner across the book of business.Managing significant index events, rebalances and corporate actions in a risk-controlled manner.Managing fund transitions and transfers, working closely with BlackRock’s Trading team to ensure optimal execution.Working with partner teams to be on top of risk and performance metrics.Partner with iShares and Product Strategy to build the HY Credit business both in terms of growing the existing book and contributing towards new client pitches.Lead in the evolution of Fixed Income markets though leveraging Blackrock Global Market’s scale and area expertise. Work with partner teams to understand the nuances of liquidity, build a wholistic knowledge of Fixed Income trading and contribute to the efforts to embed these into the portfolio management processes.