Blackstone Multi-Asset Investing (BXMA), Total Portfolio Management, Data Associate Full Time

This role will drive the management, visualization and automation of data across BXMA’s Total Portfolio Management business. The business develops and manages custom client portfolios, using an open architecture approach that combines external fund investments, private market strategies, direct investing and the Blackstone ecosystem.

Responsibilities:

Primary responsibilities will include:

• Ongoing development and maintenance of the business’ internal data solutions with a focus on highly scalable and computationally efficient data and analytical infrastructure.
• Gather requirements from business stakeholders to understand their processes and pain points in order to plan and deliver data-focused solutions
• Identify opportunities for new data sets and visualizations, tracking process and system improvements that lead to better adoption, data quality, governance and reporting
• Maintain and prioritize the backlog of tasks while coordinating with investment professionals, technology and operations teams and fund accountants
• Liaise with internal teams and third party providers as required to manage accurate data flows
• Generate analysis and data visualizations, and collaborate closely with technology colleagues to drive business initiatives
• Data quality assurance and coordination of solutions across teams
• Manage multiple projects and deadlines, identifying paths forward and solutions

Qualifications:

Blackstone seeks to hire individuals who are highly motivated, intelligent and have demonstrated excellence in prior endeavors. The successful candidate should have:

• 4+ years of relevant work experience, including sourcing, cleaning, managing and analyzing large data sets. Experience in consulting, financial services, project management and/or business analytics preferred
• Possess strong knowledge of financial markets
• Strong strategic thinking and ability to align technology initiatives with business goals and objectives
• Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills and ability to navigate through ambiguity and drive results
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to engage, influence and drive consensus with both business stakeholders and technical co-workers
• Experience conducting thorough research to understand user motivations and workflow and can clearly communicate them using appropriate methods
• Very adaptable with ability to work in a dynamic environment requiring flex between analytical, strategic and operational aspects of the job
• Have a strong SQL background in addition to an understanding of modern data warehousing techniques and best practices
• Advanced Microsoft Excel, Tableau, Python skills
• Addepar experience not required, but a plus
• Undergraduate degree required

Source: Blackstone Career Page

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