Welcome to I Love My Job, the series where we hear from real women who really love their jobs. In this edition, we sat down with Ama Nneka Annoh, an Investor Relations Associate covering Real Estate Equity Funds at BlackRock — a global asset manager and leading provider of financial technology that helps people and institutions build better financial futures.
However, this isn’t where Annoh started her BlackRock journey. “I started my journey at BlackRock in 2019 in the Aladdin business,” shares Annoh. Aladdin is BlackRock’s unified investment platform that is both used internally and sold externally to clients. In this position, Annoh worked directly with clients as they leveraged Aladdin to run their businesses. She was not a finance or technology major in college, but Annoh took advantage of BlackRock’s training programs to obtain the skills and support to succeed. “It was a steep learning curve, but I would say that was the perfect place to start for me,” Annoh tells us.
While she didn’t have intentions to shift to a new area of BlackRock, Annoh says that she found herself wanting to learn more. “Being at a firm like BlackRock – where we are global, where we are multifaceted – allowed me to explore within BlackRock,” explains Annoh. “I didn’t really have to go elsewhere [to pursue my interests]… I love that I was able to pick up something completely new and say, ‘I want to learn about that,’ and be thrown into it and work cohesively on the team.”
BlackRock fully supported Annoh in growing her career. In fact, the opportunity for internal mobility, growth and advancement is what Annoh considers to be one of the major benefits at BlackRock. “I received a lot of support from stakeholders in the business and support from people in Aladdin who wanted to see me grow.”
In the video below, Annoh shares more on why she loves working at BlackRock. We also provide lightly edited highlights from the video discussion in the following article on Fairygodboss – https://fairygodboss.com/articles/i-love-my-job-were-intentionally-creating-a-more-inclusive-diverse-and-everlearning-workforce
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0:00 – About My Job at BlackRock
1:06 – My Favorite Thing About BlackRock
1:54 – The Culture at BlackRock
3:55 – How BlackRock Supports Me
5:49 – My Advice for Women
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