Fund Reporting - Lead Analyst / Team Manger

Blackstone Real Estate Partners Fund (BREP)

Fund Performance Reporting, Lead Analyst | Bangalore | 12:00 – 21:30

Role Overview:

The Lead Analyst will support performance reporting for Blackstone Real Estate Partners, Blackstone's global opportunistic real estate fund platform serving institutional investors. The role will translate finalized quarterly valuations and investment activity across a diverse global portfolio into accurate, insightful, and decision-ready reporting for Senior Management and Limited Partners.

Key Responsibilities:

• Prepare and review quarterly performance reports for Senior Management and Limited Partners using finalized valuation, cash-flow, and approved source data.
• Reconcile fund - and investment - level information across valuation files and reporting systems.
• Support data clean-up, standardization, and validation initiatives to ensure data quality and readiness for storage in Snowflake.
• Calculate and validate performance metrics, including IRR, XIRR, MOIC, realized value, unrealized value, and total value.
• Analyze and explain period-over-period performance movements, including changes driven by valuations, acquisitions, realizations, and distributions.
• Coordinate with US stakeholders and internal teams to resolve data discrepancies and deliver accurate reports within established timelines.
• Review junior team members’ work, provide technical guidance, and ensure compliance with reporting standards and controls.
• Maintain supporting documentation and audit trails for calculations, reconciliations, and reported performance.
• Support management, regulatory, audit, and ad hoc reporting requirements.
• Identify opportunities to standardize, automate, and improve reporting processes and controls.

Development Opportunities:

• Exposure to real estate private equity performance and LP reporting.
• Regular interaction with senior finance professionals and US stakeholders.
• Opportunities to lead reporting workstreams, mentor junior team members, and support process automation and control enhancements.

Essential Skills & Experience:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business Administration, or a related discipline; CFA, FRM, CAIA, MBA, or a similar qualification is preferred.
• 5 – 8 years of relevant reporting experience, preferably within real estate, private equity, alternative investments, asset management, or financial services.
• Strong knowledge of fund performance metrics, including IRR, XIRR, and MOIC, with experience in complex reconciliations and Senior Management or LP reporting.
• Advanced Excel, analytical, problem-solving, and data-validation skills, with the ability to deliver accurate reporting under tight deadlines.
• Strong stakeholder-management and communication skills, with experience reviewing junior team members’ work and applying reporting controls, governance, and risk-management practices.