AVP, FLOW

Ares Management Corporation; Mumbai; On-site; INR 3,800,000 - 6,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Ares Management Corporation is seeking an Associate Vice President to join the FLOW team, coordinating fund launch, onboarding, and wind-down activities. The role focuses on bridging business and technology, documenting requirements, and supporting full development lifecycle including testing and change management.

The ideal candidate has 7+ years in business analysis or PM roles, experience in asset management, and strong data, reporting, and AI capabilities to drive process improvements across

Qualifications

• BS/BA in Accounting, Economics, Finance, or General Business with outstanding academic record.
• 7+ years of relevant work experience in a business analyst or project management role, preferably within asset management.
• Proven ability to translate and document business and technology requirements for diverse audiences.
• Self-motivated and able to operate independently in ambiguous situations.
• Familiar with Agile, Scrum or other iterative product management style.
• Demonstrated interpersonal and cross-cultural collaboration skills to drive execution.
• Experience with APIs, SQL, XL Connector, Power Automate.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with stakeholders to understand workflows and translate requirements into development-ready enhancements.
• Bridge the gap between business and technology from documenting requirements through testing to final release.
• Design, document and execute User Acceptance Test plans and periodic regression testing.
• Standardize processes with clear documentation, SOPs and a knowledge base; support cross-functional training.
• Identify key data, data dictionaries and data ownership across workflows and systems.
• Analyze data sets to identify opportunities for standardization and data unification.
• Document reporting requirements and data definitions for consistent data usage.
• Identify, document and implement AI use cases to increase efficiency and speed to execution.
• Provide support for data integration, audits and backfill projects.

Skills

Business analysis

Project management

Agile/Scrum

Stakeholder engagement

Data analysis

Inter-cultural skills

SQL

APIs

Education

BS/BA in Accounting, Economics, Finance, or General Business

Tools

Salesforce

DealCloud

Coupa

Sharepoint

GEMS

XL Connector

Power Automate

Job description

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 Ares is seeking a highly motivated, detail-oriented Associate Vice President to join the Fund Launch, Onboarding and Wind Down (“FLOW”) team and act as the business liaison to technology [across multiple initiatives supporting the fund launch lifecycle for Private Credit, Real Estate, Private Equity, and Secondaries funds,]. In this role, the successful candidate will help bridge the gap between the business and technology by analyzing interconnected operational processes, documenting requirements, and supporting the full development lifecycle, including release testing and change management. This position is ideal for someone who enjoys connecting ideas, documenting and improving business processes, working with data, and solving problems creatively. The role focuses on implementing practical, high-impact solutions that strengthen business operations across the firm. The ideal candidate is collaborative, agile, innovative, and proactive and must possess the ability to think critically and holistically while maintaining strong attention to detail.

PRIMARY FUNCTIONS & RESPONSIBILITIES

• Process Improvements: Collaborate with stakeholders across operational teams to understand workflows, identify team-specific and intersectional opportunities for improvement, and translate requirements into development-ready enhancements.
• Bridge the gap between the business and technology to effectively execute on stakeholder-driven system enhancements from documenting requirements through testing to final release.
• Help to design, document and execute User Acceptance Test plans to validate enhancements as well as periodic regression testing to validate end-to-end business workflows, ensure functional requirements and performance standards and surface any defects post release.
• Help to standardize processes and increase adoption through change management efforts, including by creating clear documentation for workflows, SOPs, and system processes, including maintaining an internal knowledge base and cross-functional training, as requested.
• Data, Reporting, AI: Collaborate with stakeholders to identify and document key data related to their processes.
• Analyze data sets across stakeholder workflows and systems to identify opportunities for standardization, including documenting stakeholder or related system data dictionaries, use cases and opportunities for unifying data initiatives to ensure data integrity.
• Document reporting requirements and related data, including sourcing, ownership, definitions, and maintenance of knowledge base to ensure consistent data usage.
• Work with stakeholders and technology to identify, document, and implement use cases for AI tools across systems, including automation, self-service portals, data and reporting to increase efficiencies and speed to execution.
• Provide support for data integration between systems, including analysis, audits and backfill projects, as needed.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Education: BS/BA with degree in Accounting, Economics, Finance, or General Business preferred, with outstanding academic record.
• Experience and Skills Required: 7+ years of relevant work experience in a business analyst or project management role, preferably within asset management.
• Proven ability to effectively translate and document business and technology requirements and adjust communication style to fit the audience.
• Strong problem-solver with ability to identify and resolve issues before they become issues.
• Self-motivated and able to operate independently, proactively seeking clarity in ambiguous situations.
• Highly adaptable and able to pivot quickly in response to changing priorities.
• Analytical thinker with proven history of surfacing actionable insights to inform prioritization of process and data improvements across systems and enhancement requests.
• Highly adaptable and able to reassess and pivot in response to quickly changing priorities.
• Familiar with Agile, Scrum or other iterative product management style.
• Able to leverage excellent interpersonal and inter-cultural skills to drive execution and adoption of new systems and processes.
• Strongly Preferred: Experience in the asset management industry, legal and/or fund operations a plus.
• Demonstrable knowledge of workflow, data mastering and other business applications within the corporate tech stack: Salesforce, DealCloud, Coupa, Sharepoint, GEMS or equivalent.
• Experience with APIs, SQL, XL Connector, Power Automate.
• Reporting Relationships Vice President, Fund Launch, Onboarding and Wind Down.

Ares Management Corporation (NYSE: ARES) is a leading global alternative investment manager offering clients complementary primary and secondary investment solutions across the credit, real estate, private equity and infrastructure asset classes.

We seek to provide flexible capital to support businesses and create value for our stakeholders and within our communities.

By collaborating across our investment groups, we aim to generate consistent and attractive investment returns throughout market cycles.

As of June 30, 2026, Ares Management's global platform had approximately $671 billion of assets under management(1) with more than 4,400 employees operating across North America, South America, Europe, Asia Pacific and the Middle East.

For more information, please visit www.aresmgmt.com.

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. (1) As of June 30, 2026.

AUM amounts include funds managed by Ivy Hill Asset Management, LP., a wholly owned portfolio company of Ares Capital Corporation and registered investment adviser.