Ares Management

Ares Management

Senior Associate, Investment Operations - Data & Reporting

New York, NY · Senior

Sponsorship not specified$130k-$150kDetected 1 day ago
Data AnalysisProject ManagementAccountingExcelValuationCommunicationMentoringOrganizational SkillsMicrosoft Office

About the role

  • 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.
  • There 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  • Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis until the search is no longer active.

Responsibilities

  • Capture and maintain key economic and reference terms such as issuer, borrower, guarantor, facility type, spread, base rate, floor, maturity, payment frequency, day count, amortization, original issue discount, fees, call protection, PIK and covenant-related attributes.
  • Work with Compliance to review structure charts and maintain legal entity related to the obligor
  • Leverage DealCloud and AlphaStream to onboard investments, maintain deal and security level data, and support the integrity of the private debt investment record throughout the lifecycle of each asset.
  • Partner with portfolio managers, traders, and investment teams to ensure timely and accurate setup of new deals ahead of funding, settlement, and portfolio reporting deadlines.
  • Perform quality control reviews of newly onboarded assets and document-driven changes to ensure completeness, consistency, and auditability across platforms and downstream consumers.
  • Develop and maintain operating procedures, data standards, and control checklists for document review, security setup, and private debt reference data.
  • Work with technology and data teams to improve onboarding workflows, reduce manual touchpoints, and enhance integrations between document review processes and platforms such as IVP SecMaster, DealCloud and AlphaStream.
  • Support reconciliation and remediation efforts across systems, including identifying exceptions, researching root causes, and driving timely correction of inaccurate or incomplete deal and security data.
  • Collaborate with the different strategies for any additional business and regulatory requirements to maintain new user defined fields
  • Coordinate with investment professionals, legal, operations, and external counterparties to resolve discrepancies between executed documents, internal approvals, and system setup requirements.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or another business-related discipline.
  • Experience Required
  • Hands-on experience with DealCloud, AlphaStream, or comparable private markets / credit operations platforms.
  • Strong understanding of private debt instrument structures, lifecycle events, and data attributes required for accounting, valuation, performance, and compliance workflows.
  • experience with data analysis, reconciliations, and process documentation.
  • Demonstrated ability to read and operationalize legal documentation, including credit agreements, note purchase amendments, amendments, and funding notices.
  • Strong knowledge of private credit products, including term loans, revolvers, delayed draw facilities, unitranche structures, and privately placed notes.
  • Proven communication skills, including the ability to work effectively with investment professionals, legal counsel, fund accounting, compliance, and technology teams.
  • A hands-on, solutions-oriented mindset with the ability to improve workflows and strengthen controls in a growing private debt platform.
  • Education
  • Minimum of 5-7 years of relevant experience in investment operations, middle office, security master, onboarding, or asset data management within a credit-focused investment manager, bank, or alternative asset management platform.
  • Direct experience supporting private debt, bank loans, privately originated credit, or note investments.
  • Experience coordinating across front office, legal, operations, accounting, and technology stakeholders in a fast-paced environment.
  • General Requirements
  • Excellent attention to detail and the ability to extract key terms from lengthy legal documents and translate them into accurate operational data points.

Nice to have

  • Prior experience at an alternative asset manager is strongly preferred.

Skills

  • Strong PowerPoint Skills for polished presentation and project/status reporting

Compensation

  • The anticipated base salary range for this position is listed below.
  • Total compensation may also include a discretionary performance-based bonus.
  • $130,000 - $150,000

Benefits

  • Note, the range takes into account a broad spectrum of qualifications, including, but not limited to, years of relevant work experience, education, and other relevant qualifications specific to the role.
  • The firm also offers robust Benefits offerings.

Company info

  • Over the last 20 years, Ares' success has been driven by our people and our culture.
  • 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.

Visa & Work Authorization

  • Ares offers a number of additional benefits including access to a world-class medical advisory team, a mental health app that includes coaching, therapy and psychiatry, a mindfulness and wellbeing app, financial wellness benefit that includ
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