What are the responsibilities and job description for the Vice President, Corporate Actions - Delaware position at BlackRock?
About This Role
YOUR TEAM
The Global Corporate Actions team operates across Edinburgh (United Kingdom), Wilmington (United States), Gurgaon (India), and Singapore (Asia-Pacific) as a unified organization focused on delivering high-quality corporate action services through consistent governance, controls, and risk management practices. The team follows a mature global operating model that enables effective workload transition across regions, providing continuous support to the firm and its clients. Within this organization, the Entitlements team is responsible for validating corporate action events and ensuring the accurate and timely processing of cash and stock entitlements.
YOUR ROLE AND IMPACT
As a Vice President within Corporate Actions, you will provide leadership for the Entitlements team while supporting broader Corporate Actions functions. You will play a key role in strengthening operational oversight, enhancing risk management practices, and driving process improvements that increase efficiency and scalability. The role requires close partnership with internal stakeholders, service providers, custodians, and clients to ensure accurate event execution and high-quality client experience. You will also contribute to strategic initiatives that support operational excellence and continuous improvement across the global organization.
Your Responsibilities
In every role at BlackRock, you'll be expected to apply sound judgement and critical thinking to solve complex problems, adapt as the business evolves, and embrace the curiosity to explore new approaches and technologies while challenging outcomes. The scope of this role also includes the following responsibilities:
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.
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 workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity to all applicants and existing employees, and we evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, creed, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity/expression), sexual orientation, age, ancestry, physical or mental disability, marital status, political affiliation, religion, citizenship status, genetic information, veteran status, or any other basis protected under applicable federal, state, or local law. View the EEOC’s Know Your Rights poster and its supplement and the pay transparency statement.
BlackRock is committed to full inclusion of all qualified individuals and to providing reasonable accommodations or job modifications for individuals with disabilities. If reasonable accommodation/adjustments are needed throughout the employment process, please email Disability.Assistance@blackrock.com. All requests are treated in line with our privacy policy.
BlackRock will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records in a manner consistent with the requirements of the law, including any applicable fair chance law.
YOUR TEAM
The Global Corporate Actions team operates across Edinburgh (United Kingdom), Wilmington (United States), Gurgaon (India), and Singapore (Asia-Pacific) as a unified organization focused on delivering high-quality corporate action services through consistent governance, controls, and risk management practices. The team follows a mature global operating model that enables effective workload transition across regions, providing continuous support to the firm and its clients. Within this organization, the Entitlements team is responsible for validating corporate action events and ensuring the accurate and timely processing of cash and stock entitlements.
YOUR ROLE AND IMPACT
As a Vice President within Corporate Actions, you will provide leadership for the Entitlements team while supporting broader Corporate Actions functions. You will play a key role in strengthening operational oversight, enhancing risk management practices, and driving process improvements that increase efficiency and scalability. The role requires close partnership with internal stakeholders, service providers, custodians, and clients to ensure accurate event execution and high-quality client experience. You will also contribute to strategic initiatives that support operational excellence and continuous improvement across the global organization.
Your Responsibilities
In every role at BlackRock, you'll be expected to apply sound judgement and critical thinking to solve complex problems, adapt as the business evolves, and embrace the curiosity to explore new approaches and technologies while challenging outcomes. The scope of this role also includes the following responsibilities:
- Develop a strong understanding of team processes and controls while providing management oversight of daily production activities.
- Lead operational issue escalation, ensuring risk is controlled and communication is completed in a timely manner.
- Oversee reconciliation activities and ensure discrepancies are investigated and resolved promptly.
- Develop reporting, metrics, and governance frameworks that support service quality and partner accountability.
- Build and maintain relationships with key internal and external stakeholders while supporting regional management activities.
- Drive local, regional, and global initiatives while identifying automation and efficiency opportunities that create a scalable operating model.
- Develop team performance and maintain awareness of industry changes affecting Corporate Actions and investment operations.
- Demonstrated success in a Corporate Actions leadership role with a strong understanding of financial markets and investment management.
- Excellent communication and analytical skills with the ability to identify problems and develop solutions.
- Strong knowledge of investment operations and corporate action processing.
- Experience developing and leading high-performing teams.
- Demonstrated ability to deliver major projects and drive process improvements in a fast-paced environment.
- Strong understanding of risk, controls, and escalation practices within a corporate action’s environment.
- General understanding of securities lending and its impact on the corporate action lifecycle preferred.
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.
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 workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity to all applicants and existing employees, and we evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, creed, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity/expression), sexual orientation, age, ancestry, physical or mental disability, marital status, political affiliation, religion, citizenship status, genetic information, veteran status, or any other basis protected under applicable federal, state, or local law. View the EEOC’s Know Your Rights poster and its supplement and the pay transparency statement.
BlackRock is committed to full inclusion of all qualified individuals and to providing reasonable accommodations or job modifications for individuals with disabilities. If reasonable accommodation/adjustments are needed throughout the employment process, please email Disability.Assistance@blackrock.com. All requests are treated in line with our privacy policy.
BlackRock will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records in a manner consistent with the requirements of the law, including any applicable fair chance law.
Salary : $117,500 - $173,500