Senior Associate - CLO Surveillance & Capital Solutions

Ares Management; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Ares Management is seeking an Associate/Senior Associate for its Structured Product Surveillance & Analytics team focusing on US Broadly Syndicated Loan CLOs. The Surveillance Team sits within the Global Capital Solutions platform, dedicated to securing favorable financing terms and execution across the firm.

The role involves monitoring CLO portfolios, coordinating data, and producing analytics for PMs and senior management, with opportunities to enhance workflows and automation.

Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, Mathematics, Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Accounting, or a related analytical field.
• Experience Required: Familiarity with securitized products in general and specifically the CLO market is largely preferred but not required.
• Experience in asset management, investment operations or investor relations, and related financial services roles including the leveraged loan or high yield credit market is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Support recurring monitoring of CLO portfolios and warehouses, including determination date files, monthly reports, payment date reports, waterfall files, data files, collateral files, cash files, and pending trade files.
• Generate portfolio analytics and summary information for direct consumption by PM and senior management teams.
• Generate and oversee firm wide and investor specific requests specific to Ares BSL CLOs including par build, defaulted and distressed detail, historical test performance, returns and market value calculations, and other platform-level surveillance reports.
• Coordinate documentation, data, and review processes for effective dates, resets, refinancings, new issues, and all related diligence procedures.
• Monitor and coordinate all deal related financing activity, including initial equity/first-loss funding, repayments and borrowing requests, asset settlements and trade activity
• Review and coordinate approval of waterfalls, payment reports, invoices, trustee fees, management fees, expense caps, reserve account movements, redeemed CLO distributions, and other cash-flow items.
• Prepare and validate materials for DDQs, investor requests, board packages, rating agency questions, internal reporting, and external diligence reviews.
• Initiate and support projects related to the strengthening of the global CLO platform. Such initiatives may include reporting enhancements, data validations, streamlined workflows and automation initiatives.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Attention to detail

Strong communication

Time management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Finance or related field

Tools

Excel

SQL

Python

Dashboards

Data feeds

Workflow automation

Job description

Ares Management is seeking an Associate/Senior Associate for its Structured Product Surveillance & Analytics team focusing on US Broadly Syndicated Loan CLOs. The Surveillance Team sits within the Global Capital Solutions platform, dedicated to securing favorable financing terms and execution across the firm.

The role involves monitoring CLO portfolios, coordinating data, and producing analytics for PMs and senior management, with opportunities to enhance workflows and automation.