Aladdin Technical Consultant - Front Office

About The Role

FormativGroup is seeking an Aladdin Front Office Consultant to join our growing Financial Services practice. In this role, you'll work closely with investment and trading teams, leveraging BlackRock Aladdin Front Office capabilities to support daily trading operations, optimize workflows, and reduce operational risk. The ideal candidate brings hands-on Aladdin experience, a strong understanding of investment operations, and the ability to collaborate across front, middle, and back-office teams in a fast-paced environment.

What You'Ll Do

Support and oversee front-office trading activities within the BlackRock Aladdin platform. Coordinate and monitor the complete trade lifecycle, ensuring accurate execution from order creation through settlement. Perform cash, position, and transaction validations using Excel and SQL to identify discrepancies and mitigate operational risk.

Utilize Aladdin Front Office functionality, including Order Management (OMS), pre-trade compliance, trade blotters, exposure monitoring, and portfolio analytics. Review post-trade activity, including allocations, trade matching, confirmations, and settlement status, proactively resolving issues before they impact operations. Partner with Trading, Operations, Compliance, and external counterparties to resolve trade exceptions and improve operational efficiency.

Identify emerging operational risks and communicate issues quickly to the appropriate stakeholders. What You'll Bring Hands-on experience working with BlackRock Aladdin Front Office , including OMS, trade blotters, IBOR views, cash management, matching, and operational dashboards. Solid understanding of investment operations, trade processing, and front-to-back trade lifecycle management.

Strong analytical skills with proficiency in Microsoft Excel and SQL for reconciliation, validation, reporting, and operational analysis. Experience troubleshooting trade or operational issues in a fast-paced investment management or capital markets environment. Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills with the ability to work effectively across Trading, Operations, Technology, and external partners.

Ability to prioritize multiple activities while maintaining accuracy in a high-volume trading environment. Location The location preferred for this remote with 50% travel within the US. S.

We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa now or in the future. S. states: AL, AR, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DE, FL, GA, IA, ID, IL, IN, KS, MA, MD, MI, MN, MO, NC, NH, NJ, NV, NY, OH, OK, OR, PA, TN, TX, VA, WI, and Washington DC.

Candidates residing outside these states are not eligible for consideration currently. We are committed to pay equity and transparency.

Compensation

range for this position represents our good faith estimate of the range we reasonably expect to pay for this role at the time of posting.

offered will be determined based on factors such as the candidate’s experience, skills, education, work location, and internal equity.

Range: $120 $165 USD FormativGroup operates within the critical middle layer of business technology, where applications and systems connect infrastructure to business processes. We are specialists who help the middle market take full advantage of their technology investments with deep, industry-centric expertise, all in one place, to unify fragmented systems. With deep technical expertise across cloud architecture, system integration, AI, and data strategy, we bridge the gap between business goals and modern platforms.

Benefits

package that includes medical, dental, vision, 401(k), paid time off, etc.