Benefit Street Partners (BSP) is owned by Franklin Templeton, a dynamic firm that spans asset management, wealth management, and fintech, giving us many ways to help investors make progress toward their goals. With clients in over 150 countries and offices on six continents, you’ll get exposed to different cultures, people, and business development happening around the world.

Benefit Street Partners operates independently as a Specialist Investment Manager and is a  leading credit-focused alternative asset management firm. Established in 2008, the BSP platform manages funds for institutions, high-net-worth and retail investors across various strategies including: private/opportunistic debt, liquid loans, high yield, special situations, long-short liquid credit and commercial real estate debt. These complementary strategies leverage the proprietary sourcing, analytical, operational and compliance capabilities that encompass BSP’s robust institutional platform.

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Firm Overview:

Benefit Street Partners ("BSP") is a leading credit-focused alternative asset management firm with approximately $78 billion in assets under management. 

BSP’s real estate strategy focuses on originating and managing commercial mortgage loans across the United States and in all segments of the market. BSP is a flexible capital provider, originating both floating-rate and fixed-rate loans across the capital structure, including first mortgage loans, mezzanine loans and preferred equity. BSP’s real estate equity capabilities focus on multifamily, triple-net lease assets, and CMBS B-pieces.

BSP’s dedicated real estate team today consists of over 80 professionals with origination, underwriting and asset management capabilities that enable it to generate proprietary deal flow. BSP’s CRE investment team is located in New York, NY.

Position Overview:

Benefit Street Partners’ Commercial Real Estate (“CRE”) Debt group is seeking an Analyst or Associate to join its team. The candidate will join the CRE debt originations team and will be responsible for initial deal screening, underwriting, and pipeline and transaction management for Benefit Street Partners’ CRE debt investments.

Role and Responsibilities:

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Review initial debt deal packages received by the origination team and produce detailed overview of requests for review by originators and underwriters.

• Produce initial cash flow modeling of potential debt investments and identify key debt metrics’ compliance with BSP’s investment strategy.

• Work directly with originators and internal legal team to draft loan applications.

• Manage deal team pipelines throughout all stages of the deal lifecycle. 

• Draft preliminary Asset Summary Reports (ASRs) for new debt investments to be circulated to CRE Investment Committee.

• Assist the CRE debt underwriters in various aspects of underwriting due diligence, including but not limited to cash flow modeling, market research, third party report review, and investment committee memorandum drafting.

• Liaise with third party diligence providers including insurance consultants, search firms, title companies, appraisers and engineers to provide needed diligence information and ensure timely delivery of reports.

• Assist as needed with Benefit Street Partners’ CRE Asset Management and Capital Market teams various initiatives including ongoing loan monitoring, financing, and CMBS and CLO securitization.

Qualifications:

The successful candidate will ideally possess:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business or related field

• 1 to 4 years of experience in commercial real estate with a focus on CRE debt origination and/or underwriting. 

• Ability to prioritize and meet multiple deadlines

• Ability to work in a team oriented, fast paced, demanding environment

• Strong analytical skills

• Excellent written, verbal and electronic communication skills

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Benefit Street Partners offers employees a competitive and valuable range of total rewards—monetary and non-monetary— designed to support their well-being and recognize their time, talents, and results. Along with base compensation,
employees are eligible for an