BlackRock India | Analyst, Corporate Accounting

Key responsibilities

• This role sits within the Global Corporate Consolidation & Control team and supports the integrity of Black Rock’s intercompany accounting processes across EMEA, APAC, and the Americas.
• This position offers significant development opportunities within the Global Corporate Consolidation & Control team, which is responsible for a broad range of accounting, reporting, and control activities across multiple regions.
• The role provides exposure to Global F&S partners, including Entity Controllers, Treasury, Corporate Cash and Corporate Cost teams.
• Support a high-volume, multi-entity close in a fast-paced environment, directly working with the EMEA-based intercompany team (predominantly based in Edinburgh).
• Verifying manual settlements for global intercompany positions.
• Preparing/posting multi-currency journals for manual settlements in line with the month-end calendar.
• Perform balance sheet reconciliations including responsibility for providing suitable documentation and clearing reconciling items on a timely basis.
• Support the Corporate Consolidation team (based in Gurgaon) with performing group level consolidations and validations.
• Support maintenance and changes within the legal entity hierarchy as required.
• Participate in project work for the Corporate Control team to support legal entity acquisitions, restructures, rationalisations and UAT testing within the consolidation system (FCCS).
• Provide commentary and metrics on balance sheet movements for month-end reporting purposes and senior management.
• Ensure compliance with US GAAP and internal accounting policies.
• Act as a point of contact and support audit requests and walkthroughs.
• Identify opportunities to streamline Corporate Control & Intercompany processes across the Black Rock Group.
• Support automation initiatives (e. g., reconciliation tooling, template standardisation).
• Participate in project work across the Corporate Control team, including UAT testing and supporting strategic projects.
• Build relationships with other Finance teams to ensure that all stakeholders’ reporting requirements are met in a complete and timely manner.
• Liaise with regional controllership and functional teams to resolve intercompany breaks.
• Development of cross‑functional communication skills through interaction with teams globally.
• Submitting manual settlements for payment
• Process Improvement & Automation
• Takes ownership of deliverables and proactively escalates risks

Requirements

• Experience with process automation initiatives, including opportunities to work with AI‑enabled tools, workflow automation, and data‑quality improvements.
• Ability to clearly and confidently communicate in verbal and written form with colleagues of different levels.
• Self-starter, highly numerate, quick learner, team player, with an ability to adjust to change and the desire to take on responsibility is required.
• Experience of working in a fast-paced and rapidly changing environment would be an advantage.
• Organised and methodical, possessing attention to detail, good analytical skills and the ability to work to tight deadlines.
• Part qualified accountant or qualification through experience preferred.
• 2–3 years of accounting experience (Ideally the successful candidate would have Financial Services or large corporate experience).
• Exposure to intercompany, reconciliations, or financial close preferred.
• Strong Excel and data handling capability.
• Prior experience of working with ERP systems (such as Oracle) and AI tools is desirable.

BlackRock

BlackRock is a global investment management firm founded in 1988. It is known for its iShares exchange-traded funds and its Aladdin investment and risk-management platform.

BlackRock's Indian offices support investment, operations, finance and technology teams worldwide. Typical finance roles are fund accounting, cash management, reconciliations, financial reporting and controls.

• Industry: Investment management
• Headquarters: New York, USA
• In India: Offices in Gurugram and Mumbai