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

Role summary: The primary responsibility of this role would be to perform portfolio compliance tasks & managing the day to day of the investment allocation process.

Primary responsibilities:

• Responsible for overall daily deliverables across teams, while simultaneously operationalizing and enhancing processes.

• Stakeholder Management – To create an environment of trust, confidence & collaboration with global stakeholders.

• Build relationships across different teams/internal departments. Act as escalation point.

• Assist with overseeing workflows and controls to maintain oversight.

• Identify process improvements and participate in the implementation of approved changes.

• Recommend controls by identifying problems and contributing to KPI/KRI reporting.

General requirements:

• Review portfolio compliance results after overnight holdings load; work with US/UK based portfolio compliance team to address passive breaches

• Assist with monitoring portfolio compliance results during London trading day for all the funds

• Strong Project management and Business Analyst background preferred.

• Manage the investment allocation process for various Ares business groups in coordination with deal teams, accounting, operations, and other internal parties

• Run pre-trade compliance to determine concentration limits/headroom, sector/country eligibility, etc.

• Work with key partners in all business lines to assist with data management, including, but not limited to: new asset set-up, security reference, credit data, investor data, and portfolio set-up, etc.

Experience required:

• More than 6+ years of Relevant work experience

• Prior experience with an Alternative Asset, Fixed Income preferred

• Experience with Everest & Deal Cloud preferred

• Intermediate-level technical skills a bonus (VBA, SQL, Excel, Power BI, etc.)

• Experience working with financial intermediaries like investment banks, leverage providers, broker/dealers and Prime Brokers preferred.

• Experienced with a diverse set of investment vehicles such as Institutional Separate Accounts, SMA/Limited Partnerships, Open-End Mutual Funds, Closed-End Funds and UCITs, CLOs, and complex fund structures.

Skills / Abilities required:

• Advanced analytical skills, with the ability to identify root causes and trends and anticipate horizon issues

• Excellent communication skills (verbal and written) confident running cross departmental meetings to varied audiences including senior management.

• Ability to multi-task and prioritize work in a deadline-intensive environment.

• Strong control focus and ability to challenge and streamline processes.

• Critical thinker who can act with minimal supervision but seeks advice appropriately.

• Strategic orientation so as to ensure the function continues to be positioned as a thoughtful and proactive partner to Senior Management on credit risk management matters and on driving best practices to support safety and soundness in the business space.

• Self-starter with the ability to identify an issue, initiate a solution, and see it through to completion.

• Ability to make recommendations and provide guidance to effectively advance projects across a globally integrated enterprise.

• Strong interpersonal skills, with the ability to build relationships and exert influence.

• Promotes the development of partnerships across teams to solve complex issues and improve performance.

Reporting Relationships

Principal, Allocations & Portfolio Compliance

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.