SVP, Investment Operations Lead

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Strategic Partnership & Oversight
Serve as a strategic partner to U.S. leadership to scale Blackstones Investment Operations platform through centralized oversight process standardization and talent development in India
Act as primary liaison to US and regional Investment Operations teams driving continuous process improvement and ensuring alignment on priorities
Oversee Blackstone Bangalore resources as well as work with third party teams focused on transaction support fund management and reporting and investor services

Transaction Support
Oversee delivery quality control and coordination of transaction-support activities (deal allocations fund flow documentation transaction onboarding)
Manage investment cash flow activity & transaction accounting treatment
Oversee legal-entity lifecycle activities (formation amendments dissolutions) ensuring accuracy and compliance
Maintain audit-ready documentation coordinate audit and SOI support and enforce compliance with fund policies
Drive automation and workflow enhancements using internally developed and third-party applications

Fund Management & Reporting
Lead fund operations and reporting functions including weekly COO reporting packages dashboards cash-flow reconciliations disclosure memos and transaction summaries
Act as control point for data aggregation reconciliation and reporting administration
Standardize reporting workflows and validate recurring deliverables for onshore consumption
Oversee Broken Deal expense process

Investor Services
Manage end-to-end investor servicing (LP inquiries onboarding wire instructions side-letter tracking)
Serve as key interface with internal teams and third-party providers to resolve escalations

Qualifications:
The ideal candidate will possess:
Experience & Technical Knowledge:
o Overall 15 years of experience
o Minimum of 12 years of progressive finance or investment-ops experience including a minimum of five years leading global operations teams
o Deep expertise in operations reporting investor services and transaction support
o Proven track record standardizing processes and implementing automation in a global environment
o Exceptional stakeholder-management analytical and problem-solving skills
o Hands-on experience with financial systems and data tools a plus (e.g. Sigma Anaplan Appian)

Skills:
o Excellent organizational and project management skills with ability to coordinate deliverables across multiple stakeholders.
o Highly effective communicator with exceptional attention to detail and documentation standards.

Education & Certifications:
o Bachelors degree in Accounting Finance or related discipline.

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.

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If you need a reasonable accommodation to complete your application please contact Human Resources at (US) 44 (0)(EMEA) or(APAC).

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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