Responsibilities:
- Assist Blackstone's real estate team in evaluating new investment opportunities as well as operational management of Blackstone's existing real estate portfolio across Asia Pacific (APAC), with focus on digital infrastructure and South East Asia (SEA).
- Evaluate and execute real estate investments in APAC, including financial modelling of prospective investment opportunities across a range of real estate sectors.
- Perform in-depth market research for prospective real estate investments in APAC.
- Perform extensive due diligence on acquisition opportunities, including travelling to the properties, meeting with management, coordinating with various advisors, and formulating the investment strategies and business plans.
- Prepare written analyses and evaluations of investment opportunities for Blackstone's Real Estate Private Equity Group's investment committee.
- Assist Portfolio Management in asset reviews, hold/sell decisions, fund models and quarterly fund valuations
- Execute business plan implementations, financing and disposition strategies alongside external asset managers and portfolio companies
- Develop and maintain relationships with external asset managers and portfolio companies to ensure maximum investment returns on assets in the portfolio.
- Assist in commercial aspects of fund administration, equity draws, investor relations, fundraising and reporting.
Qualifications:
Blackstone seeks to hire individuals who work well in a team-driven working group, are highly motivated, intelligent, responsible, have sound judgment and have demonstrated excellence in prior endeavors.
The successful candidate must have:
- Approximately 1-4 years of experience, ideally in real estate or infrastructure investment, investment banking or relevant professional experience
- Superior academic achievement
- Strong analytical skills and detail-oriented
- Ability to work in a fast paced, dynamic environment and to handle multiple projects at a time
- A self-starter, but with the ability to work effectively as part of a team
- Genuine interest in the real estate industry
- Confident and self-aware with excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both written and verbal
- Strong work ethic genuine passion for excellence results-oriented
- Personal and professional integrity
- Advanced user in Excel and PowerPoint
