About this role
The Legal & Compliance (L&C) team seeks to ensure the firm satisfies its regulatory obligations, protects its reputation, and provides advice to and partners with the business to meet clients’ expectations by :
- Actively participating in business decisions to foster our clients’ interests and assist the business to translate compliance into their daily work
- Having client interests at the center of everything we do
- Cultivating and enhancing the compliance culture within BlackRock
- Providing thought leadership on the impact and implementation of regulation
- Developing and fostering excellence within the Compliance team
The Employee Compliance team is part of Enterprise Compliance team within L&C and is focused on supporting and empowering our business colleagues globally to operate in compliance with key Compliance policies and procedures. In this capacity the team operate a number of processes that underpin many day-to-day compliance activities. Key enterprise-wide policies and processes include Personal Trading, Gifts & Entertainment, Outside Activities, US Political Contributions, and Business Integrity. The Core Compliance team operates, coordinates, and supports this daily.
Role Description:The Vice President – Employee Compliance (India) is a senior leadership role responsible for leading the operational stability, risk governance, and control outcomes of global Employee Compliance programs delivered from India, with a strong focus on personal trading compliance monitoring and technology-enabled operations.
This is a process and risk ownership role. The incumbent is encouraged to ensure audit-ready execution at scale, make defensible risk decisions, and drive the evolution of Employee Compliance through automation, data, and AI-enabled solutions.
Responsibilities:- Own operational health and control effectiveness of global Personal Trading and Personal Investments monitoring programs.
- Act as accountable risk owner for complex and precedent-setting personal trading cases, including senior employee matters.
- Ensure consistent decisions on blocking issues with well-documented, policy-aligned rationale.
- Partner with Policy, Legal, and regional Compliance teams to translate policy into operational guidance.
- Own volumes, ageing, SLAs, backlog, and peak management across assigned Employee Compliance processes.
- Maintain audit-ready documentation, procedures, and evidence and Lead Internal Audit and regulatory examination responses related to Employee Compliance.
- Lead adoption of automation and AI across Employee Compliance processes.
- Partner with Technology to enhance supervising systems, exception handling, analytics, and audit evidence generation, improve scalability and consistency without weakening controls.
- Lead and develop and senior team members in India to build a high performing team.
- 8-10 years of compliance experience at a financial services firm, experience with an asset management firm is a plus
- Demonstrated ownership of personal trading or employee the conflict-of-interest programs.
- 4+ years people leadership experience, leading high performing teams in a fast-paced environment with competing priorities
- Strong understanding of control frameworks, escalation governance, and audit expectations.
- Ability to clarify tasks and requirements, organize time, and manage workload to ensure deadlines are met
- Strong collaboration skills with an ability to influence stakeholders across functions and regions
- Strong written/oral communication, organizational, and social skills
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills to outline a project and manage to completion while interacting with various parts of BlackRock
- Organized and diligent with strong time management and multi-tasking skills
- Proficiency in analyzing large, complex datasets, lead management reporting (MI), dashboards, and actionable insights
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.
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.
For additional information on BlackRock, please visit @blackrock | Twitter: @blackrock | LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/blackrock
BlackRock is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to age, disability, family status, gender identity, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation and other protected attributes at law.
BlackRock Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Retirement Support — The U.S. plan combines a 50% match on the first 8% of eligible pay you contribute with an additional 3–5% company retirement contribution, alongside an Employee Stock Purchase Plan. This structure is positioned as stronger than many large employers and stands out for long‑term savings in finance.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave includes at least 16 weeks at 100% for primary caregivers (and 4 weeks for non‑primary), with bereavement and miscarriage/stillbirth leave plus a flexible return‑to‑work transition. Family‑forming and caregiving resources include adoption support, fertility benefits, and back‑up child and elder care in some locations.
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Healthcare Strength — Offerings include comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans, telemedicine, wellness incentives, gym discounts, EAP counseling, and free access to Calm. Some offices also provide onsite health services.
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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
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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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