Blackstone Credit & Insurance (BXCI) - Investment Operations - Vice President

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Blackstone Credit & Insurance 

Blackstone Credit & Insurance (“BXCI”) is one of the world’s leading credit investors. Our investments span the credit markets, including direct lending, opportunistic, CLOs, high yield, infrastructure and asset-based 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.

Responsibilities:

The BXCI Investment Operations team is looking for a key member of the team focused on operational support and day to day management of its Strategic Insurance Clients. This team liaises directly with key internal and external stakeholders in ensuring the accuracy of the Clients’ Investment and Accounting records with a high standard of care.

The successful candidate’s responsibilities will include:

• Building and supporting an enhanced operations servicing model; working with clients to ensure they have full understanding of investment portfolios, helping to address questions/issues across a diverse book of credit investments and working with many teams internally to improve processes and outcomes for the clients.
• Daily oversight of the reconciliation process with internal and external stakeholders to ensure that insurance clients’ records are accurate for monthly close process; reviewing overdue receivables, suspense accounts, etc. and working with reconciliation / processing teams to ensure activity is accurately captured in internal systems and on client records.
• Assistance with private deal fundings, pipeline management and client communication to ensure smooth closing on complex private transactions.
• Daily / Monthly reporting oversight; assist in building better reporting solutions, working with offshore teams to ensure accurate data and review of output prior to delivery to clients.
• Coordination of responses for ongoing ad-hoc client queries; working with teams to ensure incoming asks are in front of the right groups with follow-up on pending items and response back to clients.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s/University degree or equivalent experience
• 12 Years Related Experience
• Strong understanding of Insurance Industry is preferred; including STAT accounting principles
• Strong attention to detail and highly organized
• A strong work ethic and a positive attitude
• Results oriented, deadline driven and resourceful person who thrives in a dynamic environment
• Independent worker / self-starter
• Advanced Proficiency in MS Office (Excel, Word)
• Experience with Insurance Accounting systems a strong plus (Clearwater, PAM, Aladdin)
• Proven success as a team player

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:

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: Base salary does not include other forms of compensation or benefits offered in connection with the advertised role.

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If you need a reasonable accommodation to complete your application, please email Human Resources at HR-Recruiting-Americas@Blackstone.com.

Depending on the position, you may be required to obtain certain securities licenses if you are in a client facing role and/or if you are engaged in the following:

• Attending client meetings where you are discussing Blackstone products and/or and client questions;

• Marketing Blackstone funds to new or existing clients;

• Supervising or training securities licensed employees;

• Structuring or creating Blackstone funds/products; and

• Advising on marketing plans prepared by a sales team or developing and/or contributing information for marketing materials.

Note: The above list is not the exhaustive list of activities requiring securities licenses and there may be roles that require review on a case-by-case basis.  Please speak with your Blackstone Recruiting contact with any questions.

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Salary : $175,000 - $225,000