Legal & Compliance - Conflicts Clearance, VP

Blackstone is the world’s largest alternative asset manager. Blackstone seeks to deliver compelling returns for institutional and individual investors by strengthening the companies in which the firm invests. Blackstone’s over $1.3 trillion in assets under management include global investment strategies focused on real estate, private equity, credit, infrastructure, life sciences, growth equity, secondaries and hedge funds. Further information is available at www.blackstone.com. Follow @blackstone on LinkedIn, X (Twitter), and Instagram. 

The successful candidate for this position will assist in the firm’s conflicts clearance process and restricted and watch lists and will play a significant role in the implementation and oversight of the firm’s information walls. The successful candidate will have substantial analytical skills and judgment that will enable them to identify and address or escalate a wide variety of issues. The candidate must also possess substantial initiative and drive that will allow them to assist with and adapt to an upgrade of the firm’s systems around conflicts clearance. In addition, this position will require working on other compliance-related initiatives such as the implementation of the firm’s market soundings policy and trade surveillance.

 

Responsibilities:

• Evaluating potential transactions to determine what names, if any, should be placed on the firm’s restricted or watch lists

• Communicating with other legal and compliance groups and deal teams to determine when companies should be added to or removed from the firm’s watch lists and restricted lists (e.g. MNPI/inside information assessment)

• Identifying potential transactional conflicts and escalating accordingly to the appropriate legal and business contacts

• Analyzing the firm’s touchpoints with companies to determine the existence of potential conflicts of interest

• Formulating recommendations for addressing potential conflicts of interest

• Documenting analysis for clearing conflicts

• Obtaining deal updates from the investment teams

• Evaluating and managing wall-crossing requests

• Reviewing trade pre-clearances from public side businesses

• Assisting with personal trading pre-clearances as needed

• Enhancing the firm’s systems for documenting conflicts checks and the restricted list/watch list

 

Qualifications:

Blackstone seeks to hire individuals who are highly motivated, intelligent and have demonstrated excellence in prior endeavors. In addition, Blackstone is seeking the following for this position:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

• 7+ years of work experience at a major financial services firm in the control room and/or conflicts management group, or relevant legal and compliance experience required

• Strong analytical and issue-spotting skills

• Communicate confidently and effectively

• Work independently but still be a strong team player

• Substantial initiative, creativity and drive

• Attention to detail

San Francisco Applicants: Blackstone will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records, consistent with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.

The duties and responsibilities described here are not exhaustive and additional assignments, duties, or responsibilities may be required of this position.  Assignments, duties, and responsibilities may be changed at any time, with or without notice, by Blackstone in its sole discretion.

Expected annual base salary range:

$165,000 - $250,000

Actual base salary within that range will be determined by several components including but not limited to the individual's experience, skills, qualifications and job location. For roles located outside of the US, please disregard the posted salary bands as these roles will follow a separate compensation process based on local market comparables.

Additional compensation and benefits offered in connection with the role consist of comprehensive health benefits, including but not limited to medical, dental, vision, and FSA benefits; paid time off; life insurance; 401(k) plan; and discretionary bonuses. Certain e