Intern, Investor Relations

Benefit Street Partners (BSP) is part of Franklin Templeton, a forward-thinking asset manager that has built its success through powerful partnerships. We leverage cutting-edge strategies and deep insights to unlock opportunities for long-term wealth creation. Our talented, global teams bring expertise that is both broad and unique.

Benefit Street Partners operates independently as an investment group. It is an alternative credit pioneer that seeks to deliver attractive returns through its relationships, specialist expertise, and global reach. We focus exclusively on credit, building deep expertise across direct lending, structured credit, liquid credit, special situations, infrastructure debt, and real estate.

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Please note this Internship is 12 Months from June 2027

Firm Overview

A Global Leader in Alternative Credit

Benefit Street Partners (BSP) is an alternative credit pioneer that seeks to deliver attractive returns through its relationships, specialist expertise and global reach. We focus exclusively on credit, building deep expertise across direct lending, structured credit, liquid credit, special situations, infrastructure debt and real estate.

Today, we manage $92 billion in assets for investors worldwide. As a wholly owned subsidiary of Franklin Templeton, one of the world’s largest asset managers, we benefit from institutional scale and resources while retaining full investment and day-to-day operational independence. This enables us to combine specialist focus with global reach, offering solutions-driven strategies to meet long-term client needs.

About Us

BSP is a leading alternative credit manager dedicated exclusively to unlocking opportunity in this fast-evolving market. Founded as an early pioneer in the space, we have guided investors through multiple market cycles with discipline, creativity, and resilience.

Alternative credit is what we do. Our expertise spans direct lending, real estate debt, liquid credit, structured credit, and other alternative credit strategies. This depth of specialism, coupled with global reach and long-standing local relationships, enables us to connect investors with tailored, high-quality opportunities designed to deliver attractive, risk-adjusted returns across conditions.

We are a wholly owned subsidiary of Franklin Templeton, one of the world’s largest asset managers. This partnership provides the strength and scale of a global institution while preserving our investment and operational independence. The integration of Alcentra in 2022 added two decades of European expertise, creating one of the most diversified alternative credit platforms worldwide. Together, we offer clients the benefits of BSP’s agility, specialization, and entrepreneurial culture, supported by Franklin Templeton’s resources, infrastructure, and $1.68 trillion in assets under management.

Today, we manage $92 billion in assets for institutions and individuals globally. Our heritage, partnership culture, and enduring relationships continue to set us apart, enabling us to deliver flexible, high-quality credit solutions and consistent, risk-adjusted returns for our investors.

Position Overview

We are seeking a detail-oriented and process-focused individual to join our Investor Relations team. The role will be diverse but will involve all the items covered below:

• Monitoring investor and sales requests, help to build slides to support sales efforts and ensuring timely and accurate delivery.
• Updating presentations in an accurate and timely manner from a variety of market and strategy data sources to be used for existing client performance updates and marketing opportunities to prospective clients.
• Contributing to the production of monthly and quarterly performance reports to our existing clients by providing commentary on market performance and strategy performance, as well as performance attribution analysis.
• Providing market analysis and peer analysis (including both supporting data and commentary) to support the efforts of our sales team at BSP-Alcentra and the wider Franklin Templeton sales resources.

Qualifications / Skills

• Bachelor's degree required, in a STEM subject or Economics/Business

• Demonstrated interest in asset management/financial services/credit would be valued

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills required.

• Process-focused: ability to follow established procedures and workflows to ensure efficientoperations

• Attention to detail: strong focus on accuracy and precision in all tasks and communications

• Customer-focused: commitment to providing excellent service to investors and stakeholders
• Product knowledge: Some understanding of credit would be a positive or previous experience in adifferent asset class would also be valued. An ability and eagerness to develop knowledge with respect to BSP Alcentra’s sub-investment grade credit strategies and wider business is essential.

• Self-sufficiency: Ability to show initiative, manage processes and deliver output independently once trained. Logical problem-solving skills highly valued.

• Ability to maintain a positive work atmosphere by communicating effectively with colleagues acrossthe business.

• Ability to multi-task and prioritise numerous projects and tight deadlines

• Highly professional, organized, accurate and extremely detail oriented

• Flexible, team player able to work on multiple projects and meet deadlines in a collegial,high performance, global environment

Franklin Templeton is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all applicants and existing employees, and we evaluate qualified applicants without regard to ancestry, age, color, disability, genetic information, gender, gender identity, or gender expression, marital status, medical condition, military or veteran status, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, and any other basis protected by federal, state, or local law, ordinance, or regulation.

As part of our commitment to fostering a diverse and inclusive work environment, we welcome applicants with flexible working arrangements in their current roles or those seeking a flexible working pattern. We encourage you to communicate any preferences for flexible working so that we can consider this during our hiring process. Additionally, returners – individuals who have taken a break from work – are also encouraged to explore our job opportunities.

As a registered UK Disability Confident Committed Employer, we encourage you to disclose if you consider yourself to have a disability as part of your application. This information enables us to provide the necessary support and leverage your unique talents effectively.

Artificial intelligence or automated tools may be used to assist in the screening, assessment, or selection of applicants for this position.