About this role
Treasury Operations plays a critical role in supporting the controlled execution of payment activity across the private markets platform. The team is responsible for safeguarding client assets, maintaining a robust operational control environment and ensuring payment obligations are fulfilled accurately, timely and in accordance with regulatory, fund and investor requirements. Working closely with Liquidity Management, Fund Accounting, Investor Services, Tax, Business Integrity and regional operations teams, the function enables scalable growth while maintaining strong governance and risk management standards. As the private markets business continues to expand, the team serves as a key partner in delivering operational excellence, supporting business growth and maintaining the trust of clients and stakeholders.
Your Role and Impact
As a Treasury Payments Associate within Treasury Operations, you will be responsible for overseeing payment-related activity across a broad range of private markets transactions. You will help protect client outcomes by ensuring payments are reviewed, validated, evidenced and completed in line with established controls and operating standards. This role requires strong operational judgment, stakeholder management capabilities and a disciplined risk mindset. In addition to managing day-to-day oversight activities, you will support process improvements, contribute to governance initiatives and provide guidance to junior team members to drive consistent operational excellence.
Your Responsibilities
- Oversee and review payment activity across multiple payment types, ensuring all validation checks, supporting documentation, approvals, beneficiary verification, account details, value dates and control requirements are completed accurately and on time.
- Manage operational exceptions, control breaks and escalations while partnering with Liquidity Management, Fund Accounting, Investor Services, Tax, Business Integrity and regional operations teams to drive resolution, accountability and service delivery.
- Review and support fund approval documentation, liquidity management activities, tax settlements, governance requests and audit requirements, maintaining complete and audit-ready evidence.
- Produce and enhance management information, key performance indicator and service-level reporting while identifying automation, standardisation and operating model improvement opportunities that support scalability and transparency.
- Maintain operating procedures and provide day-to-day leadership, workflow coordination, coaching, quality review and prioritisation support to junior team members, promoting accountability and consistent execution.
Your Experience
- Experience in Treasury Operations, payments, fund operations or a similar financial services control environment, including review or approval of payment instructions across multiple payment types, currencies, banking platforms and regions.
- Demonstrable experience in people management
- Strong understanding of operational risk, control execution, exception management, audit evidence standards and relevant accounting, banking and workflow processes.
- Private markets, private equity, fund administration or alternatives experience is desirable.
- Strong spreadsheet and data analysis capabilities, including experience working with large datasets, reconciliation activities and reporting analysis.
- Demonstrated ability to coordinate, coach and support team members while maintaining effective stakeholder relationships and influencing priorities across functions and regions.
- Degree-level education or equivalent professional experience.
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.
Skills Required
- 3+ years experience in Treasury Operations, payments, fund operations or comparable financial services control environment
- Prior experience reviewing or approving payment instructions across multiple payment types, currencies and platforms
- Strong understanding of operational risk, control execution, exception management and audit evidence standards
- Working knowledge of accounting principles, banking platforms, workflow tools and operational procedures
- Strong Microsoft Excel capability, including large datasets, pivot tables, lookups and reconciliatory analysis
- Experience supporting, supervising or coordinating junior team members, including coaching and workflow prioritisation
- Excellent organisational, analytical, communication and stakeholder management skills
- Degree-level education or equivalent professional experience
- Private markets, private equity, fund administration or alternatives experience
What We Do
As the world’s largest asset manager, BlackRock partners with investors around the globe to help them (and those on whose behalf they invest) plan for life’s most important goals – like retirement, home ownership and their children’s education. Our clients range from governments, foundations and other large institutions to those investing on behalf of individuals, including firefighters, nurses, teachers and factory workers. BlackRock was founded with the idea of creating a better asset management firm — one that was purpose-driven, focused on clients and risk management, and propelled by data and technology. Our breakthrough Aladdin® platform is BlackRock’s technological backbone, helping investors see and manage their whole portfolios in one place – from constructing investments to monitoring risk and executing trades. Used by hundreds of external institutions around the world, Aladdin combines powerful analytics and a common language to help investment teams make faster, more informed decisions across public and private markets. It’s a key part of our business and one of the reasons we’re trusted to manage more assets than any other investment manager today. At BlackRock, we challenge conventions and raise the bar for what’s possible. We harness technology to unlock new solutions, simplify complexity, and deliver investment strategies that meet people where they are. Whether it’s retirement planning, wealth building or navigating market shifts, we’re here to help clients invest more easily, more affordably and with more choice as we chart a path toward financial well-being together. Learn more: Careers.BlackRock.com
Why Work With Us
Without our people, technology is irrelevant. When we combine the power of people with the power of technology, we amplify our ability to create better outcomes for our employees, clients, shareholders and society alike.
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