Treasury Operations — Payment Oversight Associate

About this role Role Overview This role sits within Treasury Operations and is responsible for supporting the timely, accurate and controlled execution of payment-related activity across BlackRock’s private markets platform. The successful candidate will play a key role in protecting client outcomes, maintaining a strong control environment and actively managing relationships with key stakeholders across Liquidity Management, Fund Accounting, Investor Services, Tax, Business Integrity and regional operations teams.

The role also requires effective team coordination, day-to-day guidance of junior colleagues and the ability to drive accountability, prioritisation and consistent execution across the payment oversight workflow. The role requires strong judgement, attention to detail and a disciplined risk mindset. The candidate will be expected to operate effectively in a high-volume environment, apply BlackRock’s control standards consistently and contribute to scalable process improvement as the business continues to grow.

The Impact Treasury Operations plays a critical role in safeguarding client assets and supporting the delivery of BlackRock’s fiduciary responsibilities. Payment accuracy, timeliness and control execution are central to maintaining client trust, protecting BlackRock’s reputation and ensuring obligations are met in line with fund, investor and regulatory requirements. The candidate will help ensure payment activity is reviewed, evidenced, escalated and completed to a high standard, while proactively managing stakeholder engagement with Liquidity Management, Fund Accounting, Investor Services, Tax, Business Integrity and regional operations teams to support end-to-end delivery, issue resolution and clear operational ownership.

Key Responsibilities Oversee and review payment activity across GP, LP, fund expense, facility, tax, transfer and liquidity-related payment types, ensuring all required checks are completed accurately and on time. Apply a strong control framework to payment review, including validation of beneficiary details, account information, payment amounts, value dates, supporting documentation and approval evidence.

Ensure exceptions, breaks and control issues are identified promptly, escalated appropriately and resolved with clear ownership and audit-ready evidence. Act as a key stakeholder management point across Liquidity Management, Fund Accounting, Investor Services, Tax, Business Integrity and regional operations teams, ensuring priorities, dependencies, escalations and hand-offs are clearly understood and managed.

Review and support fund approval memos, liquidity management files, tax settlements and regional payment workflows in line with agreed procedures and service standards. Support the production and enhancement of management information, client reporting and internal KPI / SLA tracking to provide transparency over volumes, quality, timeliness and control outcomes. Identify process, control and workflow improvement opportunities, supporting business cases for automation, standardisation and scalable operating model enhancements.

Maintain operating procedures and key operating processes so they remain accurate, current and aligned to the control environment. Contribute to audit, governance and oversight requests by ensuring evidence is complete, organised and aligned to operating expectations. Provide day-to-day team management, guidance, coaching and supervision to junior colleagues, including workflow allocation, prioritisation, quality review, performance feedback and promotion of accountability and consistent execution across the team.

Skills and Experience Experience in Treasury Operations, payments, fund operations or a comparable financial services control environment (3+ years) Prior experience reviewing or approving payment instructions, ideally across multiple payment types, currencies, banking platforms and regions. Strong understanding of operational risk, control execut