Real Estate – Portfolio Management (Data Analytics and Reporting), Associate/Analyst Full Time

This professional will join Blackstone Real Estate’s Portfolio Management team in New York to successfully deliver on critical portfolio management projects related to reporting, data analytics and technology re-engineering. The scope of the role includes projects across all real estate strategies (opportunistic and core+). Due to the relatively small size of the professional staff, the associate / analyst will have the opportunity to assume an integral role on the team. Specific responsibilities will include:

• Working with large data sets to deliver timely and accurate reporting materials to support and facilitate oversight of the global real estate portfolio
• Coordinating and executing on quarterly, monthly and ad-hoc tasks and workstreams; developing and maintaining project timelines and management updates
• Interacting with internal stakeholders to coordinate and synthesize data and analytics from across the real estate portfolio
• Automating and streamlining processes, identifying opportunities for process improvements as well as documenting business requirements for reporting
• Executing data migration, reconciling, and validating migrated data and reports
• Training and working directly with offshore teams
• Acting as a liaison between the portfolio management, technology, and finance teams participating in and contributing to shared projects
• Acting as a system superuser helping others to leverage systems more effectively and establishing best practice system processes

Qualifications:

Blackstone seeks to hire individuals who excel in a team-based environment, are highly motivated, intelligent and have excellent judgment. In addition to strong analytical and project management skills, the successful candidate must have:

• 1+ years of professional relevant experience in tech augmentation, business analysis, project management and/or portfolio reporting; real estate experience is preferred
• The ability to effectively work as an individual contributor and possess strong analytical, problem solving, critical thinking and decision-making skills.
• The ability to multitask and deliver under tight deadlines; the candidate is a self-starter that thrives on complexity and solution finding
• Strong Microsoft Office skills (Excel, PowerPoint and Word) and working proficiency in advanced data analytics tools (VBA, DAX/PowerQuery or Python) is required
• Working experience with the following is preferred:
  • Portfolio reporting systems (iLevel or Voyanta)
  • Property management systems (Argus Enterprise, Yardi)
  • Debt management systems (Chatham Financial)
  • Business modeling tools and data visualization and BI tools (Anaplan, Tableau, Power BI)
• The candidate is expected to have experience building and working with large data validation files (Pivots, V-Lookups) as well as some experience of building macros
• A demonstrated ability to write and communicate effectively and summarize large amounts of information succinctly and quickly
• A desire to work in an international team environment, often under pressure and with multiple stakeholders
• Superior attention to detail, resourcefulness and ability to work autonomously
• The highest degree of integrity, motivation, and intellectual curiosity

Source: Blackstone Career Page

Tagged as: REPE Firm