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A leading global alternative asset manager seeks a Senior Associate for its London Investment Accounting team. This role involves analyzing complex transactions across credit strategies and ensuring data integrity for reporting. A proactive and organized individual with a finance background and strong analytical skills will thrive in this dynamic environment.
Over the last 20 years, Ares’ success has been driven by our people and our culture. Today, our team is guided by our core values – Collaborative, Responsible, Entrepreneurial, Self-Aware, Trustworthy – and our purpose to be a catalyst for shared prosperity and a better future. Through our recruitment, career development and employee-focused programming, we are committed to fostering a welcoming and inclusive work environment where high-performance talent of diverse backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives can build careers within this exciting and growing industry.
Job Description
Summary:
Ares is seeking a Senior Associate to join our Investment Accounting (IA) team in London. This role is a unique opportunity to work within a high performing international team.
This position is focused primarily on analyzing complex transaction across multiple credit strategies, and product controls for existing portfolios. Transaction analysis includes working closely with other parts of the firm to analyze and evaluate each deal. Analysis includes summaries for each deal which notate internal rationale for accounting treatment with the goal of ensuring deals are properly recorded by the administrators. Product controls includes monitoring the existing investment data to ensure accuracy, integrity and consistency for reporting to senior investment leaders.
The Investment Accounting team is part of the global Investment Operations team within the broader Finance & Accounting Operations organization and has a presence in California, New York, London and Mumbai. The team is responsible for the firmwide analysis of new/existing investments and daily profit and loss, development of accounting /other investment policies as well as internal/external reporting and works closely with Front Office, Fund Accounting, FP&A, Operations, Compliance, and Portfolio Management.
The successful candidate will be a self-starter, process-oriented, and extremely flexible with an ability to define, design, create and improve IA functions. The ideal candidate will adapt quickly and must be organized with a strong sense of client service and ability to meet multiple tight deadlines. They will have a demonstrated track record and possess experience working in a fast-paced, high growth and rapidly changing environment. To succeed, the individual will need a flexible and consultative skill set, including the ability to think strategically, execute tactically, and collaborate across multiple business lines, and other internal/external teams, levels, and situations.
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Company Description:
Ares Management Corporation (“Ares” or the “Firm”) is a publicly traded, leading global alternative asset manager with approximately $197 billion of assets under management ("AUM") and over1,450 employees as of December 31, 2020.We seek to deliver attractive performance to our investor base across our investment groups and strategies, including credit, private equity and real estate. The firm is headquartered in Los Angeles with offices across the United States, Europe, Asia and Australia. Our common stock is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol "ARES".
Ares Management LLC (together with its related operating and administrative subsidiaries, “Ares Management”) is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and considers all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, ethnicity, creed, sex, age, national origin, alienage or citizenship status, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, marital status, partnership status, sexual orientation, status regarding public assistance, military or veteran status, domestic violence victim status, gender identity and expression, transgender status, genetic information, status as unemployed, political affiliation or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law.
Ares Management will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of the Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance.
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Principal, Investment Accounting & ReportingThere is no set deadline to apply for this job opportunity. Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis until the search is no longer active.