Blackstone Private Equity – 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 Private Equity

Business Unit Overview:

With $152 billion of assets under management, Blackstone’s corporate private equity business has been a global leader since 1985. We uncover value by identifying great companies and enhancing their performance by providing strategic capital and outstanding management talent. We aim to grow stronger enterprises, create jobs, and enable our portfolio companies to build lasting value for our investors, their employees and all stakeholders.  

Job Title: Blackstone Private Equity – Senior Associate

Job Responsibilities:

• Analyze financial data and developments in financial markets important to the business of the Blackstone Group.
• Act as point person for transactions: work with senior management and coordinate analyst responsibilities.
• Conduct research of targeted industries for investment purposes.
• Perform valuation analyses of prospective investment opportunities under consideration, including the assessment of financial risks.
• Compare a company's financial data with other companies of the same industry, size and location to forecast industry trends.
• Design and develop quantitative models to assess the economic performance of targeted companies.
• Prepare written analyses and evaluations of investment opportunities for use by Blackstone Group management and review by clients.
• Oversee the execution of transactions.
• Participate in both internal and external client meetings, negotiation of contracts and other agreements, and due diligence sessions.
• Oversee current portfolio companies and analyze potential exit opportunities.
• Perform other duties as needed.

Qualifications:

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree (or foreign equivalent) in Finance, Economics, or a related field required.

Experience:

• Minimum 4 years of experience in job offered or related occupations required.
• Minimum 4 years of experience in performing financial analysis for private and public evaluating financial statements, board decks, analyst projections and key metrics.
• Minimum 4 years of experience in advising on M&A transactions both on the sellside and buyside advising on over $30B of total transaction value across 6 deals.
• Minimum 4 years of experience in providing fairness opinions advising public companies on M&A transactions and performing DCF analyses, LBO analyses, transaction comparables, trading comparables and sum of the parts valuations.
• Minimum 4 years of experience in using Microsoft excel for financial modeling and Microsoft power point for external presentation materials.
• Minimum 4 years of experience in using FactSet and CapitalIQ (and their respective excel add-ins), software used to access historical and projected information for public companies.
• Experience can be concurrent.

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 : $147,000 - $190,000