Blackstone Credit & Insurance – Senior Associate, Systematic Strategies

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 Group: Blackstone Credit & Insurance
 

Business Group Overview:

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.

Job Title: Blackstone Credit & Insurance – Senior Associate, Systematic Strategies

Responsibilities:

• Build and manage systemic investment portfolios as part of a high-performing investment team.
• Work alongside senior model managers and portfolio managers along two main dimensions:  to help support our new product development and client-driven analysis; and to help support the management and construction of our existing investment models and portfolios.
• Build new models and products and take a lead role in putting together materials for both external and internal clients.
• Perform data validation, analysis, and model output review.
• Perform portfolio analysis and content generation.
• Assist with client reporting and performance and factor analysis.
• Perform market analysis and help to manage our reporting on market news and events.
• Use and create model management tools to identify risks and prioritize research.
• Develop dashboards and interactive GUI that can help with portfolio management.
• Perform product development and support, partnering with client development.
• Partner with PMs and operation support as needed.
• Perform other duties as needed.

Qualifications:

Education:

• Master’s degree (or foreign equivalent) in Mathematics, Statistics, Finance, or a related field required.

Certification:

• CFA (Chartered Financial Analyst) certification required.

Experience:

• Minimum 4 years of experience in job offered or related occupations required.
• Minimum 4 years of experience using PowerPoint to generate internal and external presentation materials.
• Minimum 4 years of experience building automation tools using a combination of software to streamline internal or external reporting process.
• Minimum of 3 years of experience using Python to perform various types of programming tasks.
• Minimum of 3 years of experience conducting statistical analysis and building quantitative frameworks to analyze problems in secondary market.
• Minimum of 2 years of experience designing and developing interactive GUI to build complex data analytics and visualization tools.
• Minimum of 2 years of experience working with Fixed Income market data and conducting Macroeconomic analysis.
• Minimum of 2 years of experience conducting independent research on financial market using both quantitative and qualitative approaches.
• Minimum of 1 year of experience developing in Data Processing language (e.g. SQL) to conduct data aggregation and analysis with large dataset, and build data pipeline.
• Minimum of 6 months of experience writing code in production environment and managing technology