At Franklin Templeton, everything we do is focused on one thing – delivering better client outcomes. We do that by partnering closely with our clients, assessing their strategic needs, and identifying the solution or solutions that can meet the challenge. Over 9,500 employees working in 30 countries around the world are dedicated to servicing investment solutions for our clients in more than 155 countries. For more than 75 years our success has been a direct result of the talent, skills and persistence of our people, and we are looking for qualified candidates to join our team.
What is the BSP Portfolio Analytics team responsible for?
Benefit Street Partners ("BSP") is a leading credit-focused alternative asset management firm with approximately $77 billion in assets under management. Established in 2008, the BSP platform manages funds for institutions, high-net-worth and retail investors across various strategies including: private/opportunistic debt, liquid loans, high yield, special situations, long-short liquid credit and commercial real estate debt. BSP’s operational headquarters are located in Boston, MA and support the investment team located in New York, NY.
Benefit Street Partners is seeking to hire an intelligent and highly motivated individual to join the Portfolio Analytics Team. The Portfolio Analytics Team provides mission critical support to Business Development, Investor Relations, and the Investment Team. This role will focus primarily on data analytics and performance reporting for all investments under management, but specifically for the Private Debt platform. The ideal candidate will have a mix of finance/accounting and technology experience, with strong analytical and communication skills. This individual will collaborate with colleagues across the front, middle and back office.
What are the ongoing responsibilities of a BSP Portfolio Analytics Analyst?
- Assist in the creation of essential firmwide internal/external performance reporting
- Partner with Business Development, Investor Relations, Franklin Templeton, Legal, Valuation, Operations, Finance and Data Management teams to ensure the breadth, depth and accuracy of data and reporting
- Facilitate cross communication and collaboration amongst the aforementioned teams
- Maintain the integrity of internal processes and databases used to track key performance and investment metrics
- Support Business Development through the preparation of analytical statistics required for presentations and investor requests
- Support Investor Relations through the aggregation and manipulation of data in response to investor questionnaires and fund performance queries
- Help capture, maintain, and clean underlying financial data and statistics of BSP’s borrowers
- Constantly evaluate systems, process and procedures for inefficiencies and make recommendations for improvement
- Ongoing maintenance of power bi dashboards for data capture and reconciliation
What ideal qualifications, skills & experience would help someone to be successful?
- 3+ years of experience within financial services
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or comparable
- Motivated, self-starter with strong analytical skills, and an ability to grasp new concepts quickly
- Experience working with financial instruments (including but not limited to bank debt, bonds, loans, equity, and derivatives) preferably in a hedge fund or private equity/debt environment
- Strong Microsoft Excel skills required, PowerPoint skills are a plus
- Strong appreciation for technology/business systems and their application in the workplace
- Familiarity and experience with financial statements and financial metrics is a plus
- Experience creating and maintaining Power BI/Tableau dashboards a plus, but not required
- Ability to thrive in a fast paced, ever changing, and results driven environment
- Team player with the ability to build strong relationships at all levels within the Firm
- Detail oriented, diligent, thorough, and curious
What makes Franklin Templeton unique?
In addition to the dynamic and professional environment at Franklin Templeton, we strive to ensure that our employees have access to a competitive and valuable set of
Total Rewards
—the mix of both monetary and non-monetary rewards provided to you in recognition for your time, talents, efforts, and results.
Highlights of our benefits include:
- Possibility to develop your career in a global environment
- Attractive location in the center of Poznań (New Market)
- Private Healthcare and Life Insurance
- Office gym
- MultiSport Program or MultiSport Cafeteria
- Investment Programs
- Learning resources (LinkedIn Learning, online and in-person trainings)
- Recommendation program (Employee Referral Network)
- Friendly and supportive working environment
- Participation in international projects
- Possibility to lead or support charity events
- Onsite kindergarten and creche
- Onsite canteen, discounted prices
We believe that being a good corporate citizen is good business. To us, corporate citizenship means being accountable, serving our clients, being an employer of choice, managing our environmental impact, and
supporting our communities
. An emphasis on corporate citizenship is embedded in our culture and values, and is an important element of how we achieve success.
We are also committed to your learning and development with resources focused around Experience, Exposure, and Education, to help you achieve your professional development goals.
Franklin Templeton values diversity in its workforce and welcomes employees from different backgrounds, generations, capabilities, cultural identification, sexual orientations, and gender expression, in addition to other attributes that contribute to a truly diverse and inclusive community.
Franklin Templeton is committed to fostering a
diverse and inclusive
environment. If you believe that you need a workplace arrangement to search for, or apply for, one of our positions please send an email to accommodations@franklintempleton.com
. In your email, please include the arrangement you are requesting and the job title and job number you are applying for. We will review the request and make a best effort to enact the arrangement. It may take up to three business days to receive a response to your request. Please note that only requests for arrangements will receive a response.