Blackstone Credit & Insurance – Structuring, Senior Associate

Blackstone • New York, NY

7d • $160,000 - $215,000

About The Position

Blackstone Credit & Insurance (“BXCI”) is one of the world’s leading credit investors. Our investments span the credit markets, including private investment grade, asset based lending, public investment grade and high yield, sustainable resources, infrastructure debt, collateralized loan obligations, direct lending and opportunistic credit. We seek to generate attractive risk-adjusted returns for institutional and individual investors by offering companies capital needed to strengthen and grow their businesses. BXCI is also a leading provider of investment management services for insurers, helping those companies better deliver for policyholders through our world-class capabilities in investment grade private credit. Blackstone Credit & Insurance (BXCI) is seeking to add a Senior Associate to its Structuring team within the Office of the Chief Investment Officer (OCIO). The Structuring team is primarily responsible for originating and executing structured investments across BXCI; creating and managing rated vehicles to deliver BXCI’s origination in an efficient manner for our investors; owning relationships across rating agencies and banks for structured solutions; working closely with sales team and portfolio managers for ongoing maintenance of structures; collaborating with other functions within OCIO and the broader BXCI platform; and preparing models, analysis, memos, and presentations regarding the aforementioned topics. The candidate will work closely with all OCIO functions, origination teams, individuals across the broader platform, and senior-level management to execute on these responsibilities. Candidates can expect to work on numerous initiatives at a time given the lean size of the team. Additional key responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

Requirements

• Undergraduate degree
• 2+ years of experience, ideally within investment banking, management / strategy consulting, or advisory / related valuation or transaction services.
• Strong financial analysis, data management, and presentation skills
• A high degree of proficiency in PowerPoint and Excel
• Detail-oriented
• Critical thinking skills, including identifying trends and insights from raw data sets
• Highly motivated; works well independently
• Effectively manages multiple tasks, deadlines, and responsibilities
• Strong interpersonal skills to work cross-functionally and manage both internal and external business relationships

Nice To Haves

• Experience and familiarity with structuring and credit investing / leveraged finance markets is a plus

Responsibilities

• End-to-end process management across all structured deals including:
• Asset/Portfolio due diligence
• Modeling of proposed structure
• Preparation of investment committee material
• Review of legal documentation
• Management of rating agencies and external stakeholders
• Data analysis and qualitative observation to identify trends across rating agency methodologies and the broader market
• Helping to develop and maintain portfolio management and monitoring tools to support ongoing structure management
• Content creation, for both internal and external stakeholders

Benefits

• comprehensive health benefits, including but not limited to medical, dental, vision, and FSA benefits
• paid time off
• life insurance
• 401(k) plan
• discretionary bonuses

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 251-500 employees