Real Estate - Portfolio Management (Data Strategy & Analytics), Senior Associate

Blackstone is the world’s largest alternative asset manager. We seek to create positive economic impact and long-term value for our investors, the companies we invest in, and the communities in which we work. We do this by using extraordinary people and flexible capital to help companies solve problems. Our $1.1 trillion in assets under management include investment vehicles focused on private equity, real estate, public debt and equity, infrastructure, life sciences, growth equity, opportunistic, non-investment grade credit, real assets and secondary funds, all on a global basis. Further information is available at www.blackstone.com. Follow @blackstone on LinkedIn, Twitter, and Instagram.
 

Business Unit:  Blackstone Real Estate
 

Business Unit Overview: Blackstone is a global leader in real estate investing. Blackstone’s real estate business was founded in 1991 and has US $336 billion of investor capital under management. Blackstone is the largest owner of commercial real estate globally, owning and operating assets across every major geography and sector, including logistics, data centers, residential, office and hospitality. Our opportunistic funds seek to acquire undermanaged, well-located assets across the world. Blackstone’s Core+ business invests in substantially stabilized real estate assets globally, through both institutional strategies and strategies tailored for income-focused individual investors including Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust, Inc. (BREIT). Blackstone Real Estate also operates one of the leading global real estate debt businesses, providing comprehensive financing solutions across the capital structure and risk spectrum, including management of Blackstone Mortgage Trust (NYSE: BXMT).
 

Role: Real Estate - Portfolio Management, Data Strategy and Analytics

Level: Senior Associate

Job Description & Responsibilities:

This professional will join Blackstone Real Estate’s Portfolio Management team in New York to successfully deliver on critical portfolio management projects related to reporting, data analytics and technology re-engineering with the goal of driving operational efficiencies. The scope of the role includes projects across all real estate strategies (opportunistic and core+) and teams to successfully automate business processes and calculation models using modern technology & languages, such as iLevel, Python, Snowflake, Power BI and Anaplan. Due to the relatively small size of the professional staff, this professional will have the opportunity to assume an integral role on the team.  Specific responsibilities will include:

• Working with large, complex data sets to deliver timely and accurate reporting materials to support and facilitate oversight of the global real estate portfolio
• Coordinating and executing on quarterly, monthly and ad-hoc tasks and workstreams; developing and maintaining project timelines and management updates
• Acting as a regional liaison between the portfolio management, technology and finance teams participating in and contributing to shared regional and global projects
• Automating and streamlining processes, identifying opportunities for process improvements as well as documenting business requirements for reporting
• Interacting with internal stakeholders to coordinate and synthesize data and analytics from across the global real estate portfolio
• Executing data migration, reconciling, and validating migrated data and reports
• Designing, building and implementing the most efficient solution based on the business requirements gathered
• Identifying opportunities for process efficiency improvements
• Driving and coordinating user testing activities and providing training to end users
• Training, coordinating and working directly with offshore teams
• Acting as a system “super user” helping others to leverage systems more effectively and establishing best practices
• Consulting with Blackstone’s portfolio companies to identify synergies and advise on process improvement initiatives

Qualifications:

Blackstone seeks to hire individuals who excel in a team-based environment, and are highly motivated and with excellent judgment. In addition to stron