Legal & Compliance - Conflicts Clearance, SVP

Blackstone is the world’s largest alternative asset manager. We seek to create positive economic impact and long-term value for our investors, the companies we invest in, and the communities in which we work. We do this by using extraordinary people and flexible capital to help companies solve problems. Our $1.1 trillion in assets under management include investment vehicles focused on private equity, real estate, public debt and equity, infrastructure, life sciences, growth equity, opportunistic, non-investment grade credit, real assets and secondary funds, all on a global basis.

Further information is available at . Follow @blackstone on , , and .The successful candidate for this position will report to the global head of the conflicts clearance team and will assist in management of the firm’s conflicts clearance policies and procedures and will play a significant role in the implementation and oversight of the firm’s information walls. The candidate will have substantial analytical skills and judgment that will enable them to identify, escalate, and resolve a variety of complex conflicts issues.

The candidate must also possess substantial initiative and drive strategic efficiencies across our organization.
** Responsibilities**:
* Provide critical support/leverage to global head of conflicts clearance team.
* Drive efficiencies across conflicts clearance processes, leveraging technology, automation, and best practices to optimize speed, accuracy, and scalability.
* Evaluate potential transactions to determine what names, if any, should be placed on the firm’s restricted or control lists.
* Serve as senior-level point of contact for the conflict clearance team globally.
* Support and guide a team of resources by actively participating in hiring, onboarding, training, and mentoring.
* Communicate with other legal and compliance groups and deal teams to determine when companies should be added to or removed from the firm’s control lists (e.g. MNPI/inside information assessment)
* Identify potential transactional conflicts and escalating them accordingly to the appropriate legal and business contacts
* Analyze the firm’s touchpoints with companies to determine the existence of potential conflicts of interest
* Formulate recommendations for addressing potential conflicts of interest
* Document detailed analysis for clearing conflicts
* Obtain deal updates from the investment teams
* Evaluate and manage wall-crossing requests
* Review trade pre-clearances from public side businesses
* Assist with personal trading pre-clearances as needed
* Partner with the technology team to upgrade and integrate conflict clearance systems.
* Draft and coordinate firmwide responses to regulatory examinations.
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* Qualifications:

** Blackstone seeks to hire individuals who are highly motivated, intelligent and have demonstrated excellence in prior endeavors.  In addition, Blackstone is seeking a candidate with the following qualifications for this position:
* Bachelor’s degree or equivalent
* 10+ years of work experience at a major financial services firm in the control room and/or conflicts management group, or relevant legal and compliance experience required
* Proven leadership and team management experience
* Experience engaging with regulators on examinations and inquiries
* Strong analytical and issue-spotting skills
* Communicates confidently and succinctly
* Works well independently but is still a strong team player
* Substantial initiative, creativity and motivation
* Meticulous attention to detail

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.
** Expected annual base salary range:**$225,000 - $275,000

Actual base salary within that range will be determined by several components including but not limited to the individual's experience, skills, qualifications and job location. For roles located outside of the US, please disregard the posted salary bands as these roles will follow a separate…