2025 Blackstone Legal & Compliance – Compliance Summer Analyst, London
2025 Blackstone Legal & Compliance Summer Analyst
Blackstone Legal & Compliance
The Legal & Compliance group in EMEA is involved in providing advice to the various business units, which include reviewing marketing and communications, maintaining a robust anti-money laundering program and providing regulatory guidance to the investment teams; as well as providing oversight to Blackstone’s European funds.
Programme Description
Blackstone's Summer Analyst Program spans 10 weeks, offering participants extensive exposure across the firm. This program provides Summer Analysts with valuable guidance through mentorship, continuous feedback, technical and soft skill training, networking opportunities with professionals across the firm, and the unique chance to fully immerse themselves in Blackstone's culture.
Job Description
Blackstone’s Compliance Group expects Summer Analysts to be engaged in all aspects of the group’s work.
Summer Analyst work may include:
- Reviewing marketing materials and communications being sent to investors. Assisting with legal and compliance matters that arise in connection with investor suitability, domestic and global marketing registration
- Reviewing fund documentation and coordinating with counsels and service providers in the onboarding of new funds or products as well as investors
- Conducting Know Your Customer checks, reviewing investment deals, overseeing investor onboarding processes
- Maintaining and updating policies and procedures, including drafting new processes to streamline compliance initiatives
- Conducting key compliance tasks such as reviewing gifts & entertainment requests, personal account dealing requests and background check reports
- Preparing materials and metrics for committees and senior management, conducting company secretarial activities
- Assisting in training initiatives
- Assisting with the implementation of various compliance oversight programmes
- Supporting day-to-day core compliance oversight and advisory such as monitoring conflicts of interest, running email surveillance, reviewing trade documentation, assessing risk associated with non-public information and trading
- Conducting regulatory horizon scanning to assess the impact to the Blackstone businesses
Qualifications
Blackstone seeks to hire individuals who work well in a team-driven working group, are highly motivated, intelligent, have sound judgment and have demonstrated excellence in prior endeavors.
The successful candidate must possess:
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- A desire to work in a team environment with dynamic roles
- A basic knowledge of accounting and finance
- Self-motivation to find solutions independently, and humility to acknowledge limits and uncertainties
- Sincere commitment to personal and professional development
- Excellent attention to detail
- Intellectual curiosity
- Good judgement
To be considered for the 2025 Summer Analyst Programme, applicants must meet the following criteria:
- Currently enrolled as an undergraduate or masters student
- Anticipated graduation date: Summer 2026
- CV must include expected graduation month/year and grade
- CV must be in PDF format
Knowledge of accounting and finance and experience of investment banking are desirable, but not necessary.
The Principles that Matter Most:
- Accountability
- Excellence
- Integrity
- Team Work
- Entrepreneurship
Everything we do is guided by these principles, which define our character and culture; they have been at the core of Blackstone since its inception. These enduring qualities are the shared convictions that we bring to our professional and personal conduct. They are a fundamental strength of our business.
Application Process
Submit application
Complete Pymetrics online gaming and video interview
Interviews
Superday
Offer
Please note: This is a sample recruitment process times and stages may vary between business areas and regions.
Application Deadline
- Applications will close on 27 October 2024
- Applications are reviewed on an ongoing basis
If you do not meet these criteria, please see Blackstone’s Careers website for other opportunities that may be available, including other entry level positions.