IR Product Management Intern covering Closed-ended Products

Company Overview

BSP-Alcentra is an international expert in credit management, private credit and structured credit strategies and one of the largest global credit and private debt managers. As of 31st May 2025, the combined platform manages $78 billion in assets under management (AUM) and has expertise in Senior Secured Loans, Direct Lending, Structured Credit, Special Situations, High Yield Bonds, Multi-Strategy Credit, and Commercial Real Estate. The global team totals 498, with 167 investment professionals. BSP-Alcentra is a wholly owned subsidiary of Franklin Resources, Inc. that, together with its various subsidiaries, operates as Franklin Templeton.

Position Summary

The primary responsibility of this role is to support the wider team on data procurement, building charts, working with our Portfolio Analytics team and producing analysis for ad hoc queries. Secondary responsibility will be to help produce recurring deliverables (e.g. client reports and presentations, writing commentary). This requires knowing the end-to-end process inside out, reaching out to relevant stakeholders across the business to ensure timely delivery. Anticipating issues, troubleshooting and managing expectations will be valued.

The Product Intern will be located in London and will report to the Closed-ended Product Team Heads. The Product Management team perform numerous and differentiated roles, liaising between BSP-Alcentra’s investment teams, sales teams and external clients. Tasks undertaken by the Product Management team that the successful candidate may assist with include:

• 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.

Candidate Profile

Training will be provided to you, and your responsibilities will gradually expand as you become more experienced. The successful candidate will possess the following:

• Right to work in the UK

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

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

• Fluent English, excellent written and verbal communication skills required. Additional languages a plus.

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

• ·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

• Interest in/comfort with technology: proficiency in manipulating data via Excel and developing slides in PowerPoint

• Product knowledge: Some understanding of credit would be a positive. 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 are highly valued

• 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.

Opportunity

This role offers the successful candidate the rare opportunity to join a collaborative and well-regarded, top performing investment firm, working with a dynamic group of people who are experts in their field. This is an opportunity to be part of the firm’s continued growth.

Please note that this is a 12-month fixed-term contract, commencing as soon as possible.