BESS Associate - Battery Energy Storage Systems
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Job description
- Perform due diligence on prospective investments within the credit space, with a focus on private credit strategies across direct lending and opportunistic credit, including meeting with potential borrowers, doing deep dives on the business, industry/strategy research, financial modeling, and putting together investment materials.
- Working with other members of the investment team to diligence, and underwrite investment opportunities, leveraging Blackstone's various groups where appropriate.
- Building comprehensive financial models and evaluating various cases and types of deal structures.
- Drafting and presenting memorandums for investment committees.
- Monitoring existing investments including tracking KPI's and continuously challenging the validity of the investment thesis.
- Thinking creatively about ways to improve the team's existing processes., 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.
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Requirements
Qualifications: Blackstone seeks to hire individuals who are highly motivated and have demonstrated excellence in prior endeavors. In addition to strong analytical and quantitative skills, a successful candidate will have:
- A desire to work in a team environment, often under competing deadlines.
- Strong financial modeling skills, with past experience modeling and evaluating transactions.
- Excellent technical proficiency in Excel/VBA.
- Prior experience preparing presentation materials using PowerPoint.
- Strong communication skills.
- Intellectual curiosity and a desire to learn.
- 2+ years of relevant work experience in investment banking (M&A, leveraged finance, restructuring or other coverage groups) or consulting, or in a buy-side investing role such as in private credit or private equity.