Summer Internship Programme - Operations - Investment Operations - 2025

The Summer Internship Programme is for candidates in their penultimate year of a bachelor’s or master’s degree, graduating in 2026.

This program is designed to provide students with a challenging, meaningful and supportive internship experience that replicates, as closely as possible, the experience of being a full-time BlackRock Analyst. The program begins with an orientation that offers a thorough overview of the firm and the opportunity to hear from a number of senior leaders.

Following orientation, interns receive on-the-job training and are given day-to-day responsibilities to contribute to their teams throughout the summer. Programming also features a speaker series, mentoring and various networking opportunities, including activities with our employee networks.

If you enjoy this program, you should explore our Full-Time Analyst Program, which you can consider applying to after your internship.

Important:

Candidates can apply for only one programme (e.g., Summer Internship Programme or Off-Cycle Internship Programme) and up to two functions within that programme (e.g., Investment Research and Analytics & Modeling). You must apply for both opportunities using the same programme application. If you withdraw your application, you cannot submit another application for this programme this year.

Investment Operations

Investment Operations are responsible for the end-to-end investment management process, providing operational support to BlackRock’s portfolio management teams and client groups. They also own the day-to-day relationships with external service providers, such as banks and data/index suppliers, ensuring that they optimise BlackRock’s relationships.

Teams you may be considered for:

Global Provider Strategy (GPS)

A small, global team that manages the relationships & governance of BlackRock’s post-trade service providers, i.e., custodians, fund administrators and transfer agents. GPS works with multiple teams and senior management across BlackRock to deliver executive strategic engagement with such firms and escalate and manage serious service issues, as well as oversee multiple relationship governance & risk metrics.

Separately Managed Accounts (SMA) Solutions

Supports new account openings, new client implementations, portfolio accounting processes and billing, to name a few. Their goal is to provide an exceptional client experience and make the myriad of processes and interactions as seamless and efficient as possible for the client. 

Global Investment Operations (GIO)

Responsible for all operational elements of the trading lifecycle. GIO delivers a globally consistent operating platform that is an industry leader in delivering scale, efficiency, and risk management using technology to disrupt market infrastructure and leverage new technologies through integration with Aladdin.

Global Accounting and Product Services (GAAPS)

Provides effective oversight of outsourced providers’ performance and acts as subject matter expert resource for the fund accounting operation. The team also plays a key role in building and reviewing the fund accounting control framework and contributing to product development / launch at BlackRock.

This function is known for:

Operational excellence: Delivering a consistent and effective service model across all elements of the client and trade lifecycles.

Relationship Management: Developing and maintaining relationships with clients, internal stakeholders and external partners.

Service Delivery: Managing the firm’s funds aligning to the Retail, Institutional and ETF client businesses, providing scalable and custom solutions to clients and analysing trends to improve service and client deliverables.

Technology and data focus: Understanding the flow of client, market and fund information across BlackRock and external data providers and working alongside our systems engineers and UI developers to build the next generation of BlackRock’s tools.

What will you do as an Analyst?

• Gain exposure to multiple business areas and investment products across the firm
• Be challenged to think innovatively and creatively in order to solve complex business and operational issues
• Collaborate with teams across the firm to deliver BlackRock’s expertise and innovative solutions to clients
• Evaluate systems, processes and procedures for inefficiencies and make recommendations for improvement
• Be part of and develop within a truly global and innovative group

What capabilities are we looking for?

• Analytical approach
• Relationship management
• Proactivity
• Critical thinking
• Problem solving
• Project management
• Technical curiosity

Your learning & development will include:

• Experience working in a global team serving a diverse range of clients
• Developing relationship, stakeholder, and project management / change management skills
• Learning to deconstruct processes, as well as identifying and implementing improvement opportunities
• Firsthand experience and view into the strategic and operational work required to service an increasingly complex and growing client base
• Networking opportunities with colleagues within and outside of your function and office
• Access to a wide range of resources to learn about the asset management industry and BlackRock, as well as to improve your professional skills (e.g., business writing, presenting, SQL and Python trainings) more broadly

Benefits

• Emotional well-being
• Financial well-being
• Healthcare benefits
• Life management
• Pay for performance
• Physical well-being

Please click here to see all of our rewards and benefits. 

Next steps:

Once you submit your application, you will receive an email to complete a pre-interview assessment. You have up to five days to submit your pre-interview assessment; if you fail to do so, your application will automatically be withdrawn.

BlackRock is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to age, disability, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation and other protected characteristics at law.

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