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Dhriti Chopra

New Delhi

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience

Work History

Vice President- Real Estate Valuations

BlackRock
01.2025 - Current
  • Currently leading the Commercial Real Estate Valuations- SPEAR team within Aladdin Data division in India.
  • Responsible for providing analytical and advisory support to various CMBS bond holders and investors.
  • Provide valuation of Commercial Real Estate (CRE) properties of U.S. by analyzing their financial statements, rent rolls, market, sales comparison and other market reports.
  • Projection of losses on notes, deals and bonds backed by CRE properties (like Office, Retail, Lodging, Multi-Family, etc) securitized in CMBS and CLO deals.
  • Cultivated strong relationships with key stakeholders, including internal and external clients by ensuring delivery of timely and quality analytics.
  • Led cross-functional teams for the successful completion of major projects, resulting in increased efficiency and client satisfaction.
  • Coordinating with the development team for enhancements in application used for monthly updates & underwriting processes and different QC processes performed daily and at EOM as well.
  • Coordinating with the advisory team for providing support on clients’ requests.
  • Working on different research assignments and preparing content for Aladdin publications and client calls
  • Demonstrated proficient leadership skills to motivate employees and build competent teams by interviewing, training and providing support to new hires.
  • Collaborated with senior management to develop strategic initiatives and long term goals.
  • · Streamlining and automating manual processes using Python, Power Query and SQL.

Associate Manager

BlackRock
01.2018 - 12.2024
  • Led the Monthly Updates & New Issuance process by providing timely support to the team members located in GGN & Mumbai continuously. Managing the allocation and all the other issues faced during these changing COVID times along with contributing consistently in the execution of deals M-O-M as well.
  • Worked as a lead on the Automation Project AREIA (Aladdin Real Estate Investment Application) Phase 1 & 2 testing and implementation and increasing the automated deal count insertion to 50% from 20% and ultimately saving FTE’s for the team.
  • Working on complex CRE CLO deals and defining protocols for Risk Retention classes. Working on the Credit Review process each month and identifying the causes for loans with changes in losses.
  • Acting as a Senior Mentor for various years to an LSR trainee under the initiative of Charlie Hallac Scholarship Program launched in India.
  • Working on SQL based internal tools to generate results in order to improvise data accuracy and providing our clients with timely precise data.
  • Training the newer folks on various process related tasks and undertaking them through a extensive training plan.
  • Creation of new CMBS deals issued in the market; apprise the CMBS deals on a periodic basis to analyze the loan performance and underwriting loan and property level cash flows for large loans to arrive at comprehensive loan analysis.
  • Been an active member of various social committees and networks such as WIN, BLK SPEAKS etc.

Analyst

BlackRock
12.2013 - 12.2017
  • Conducting loan and property level research and analysis that forms the baseline of CMBS valuation.
  • Providing Real Estate valuations and underwriting distressed loans and providing investment advice to all the Aladdin clients holding subscription of our internal tool.
  • Data extraction from prospectus and trustee websites and subsequently updating the database.
  • Use of Bloomberg data and other news articles in order to conduct research and provide analytics.
  • Coordinating with the financial modelling team for enhancements and testing different aspects of the model
  • Managed multiple projects simultaneously while adhering to strict deadlines and quality standards.

Education

MBA - Finance and HR

BVIMR, Bhartiya Vidyapeeth University
04-2013

B.com (Hons) -

Delhi University
03-2011

XII -

CBSE
03-2008

X -

CBSE
03-2006

Skills

  • Data Analysis and Research
  • Investor Reporting
  • Project and Client Management
  • Team leadership
  • Decision-making
  • Big data management
  • Python programming
  • MS Excel, PPT & Word
  • SQL
  • Analytical problem solving
  • Test execution management
  • Process improvement strategies

Languages

English
Hindi
Punjabi

Disclaimer

I hereby declare that all the information presented above is true to the best of my knowledge

Timeline

Vice President- Real Estate Valuations

BlackRock
01.2025 - Current

Associate Manager

BlackRock
01.2018 - 12.2024

Analyst

BlackRock
12.2013 - 12.2017

MBA - Finance and HR

BVIMR, Bhartiya Vidyapeeth University

B.com (Hons) -

Delhi University

XII -

CBSE

X -

CBSE
Dhriti Chopra