Vice President, Investment Operations - Los Angeles, United States - Ares Management

Ares Management

Verified Company

Los Angeles, United States

2 weeks ago

Posted by:

Mark Lane

beBee recruiter

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.

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Job Description:

Specific responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

Work with key partners in all business lines to assist with data management including but not limited to: security reference, credit data integrity
Interact with all market data vendors including but not limited to: Markit, Moody's, S&P, Fitch and Bloomberg
Develop strategic partnerships with external providers and market data vendors to enrich data and improve our inbound data platform
Serve as a key partner to the firm's portfolio managers in delivering timely and accurate security investment information
Interfacing with Traders, Portfolio managers, New Accounts Group, Fund Accounting, Performance and Compliance
Work closing with the different business functions in order to capture Critical Data Elements (CDEs) used in their enduser process
Assist Data Quality Control Group with maintenance of accurate and consistent information flows
Track and monitor the data quality issues that are discovered and provide status to senior management Data Quality Issues, and reporting KPI Metrics
Having deep understanding of business requirement that drive data quality, translating those requirements to quality rules and decomposing those rules to properly place their execution in the data flow
Helping Build out a Data Dictionary
Working along side with internal reporting team to map out Security master data fields for external reporting
Working with PowerBi/Tableau to build our better reporting across the organization to provide data transparencies
Familiarities with Duco recons to help create recons between systems/vendors
Manage and oversee all Rating exception as well as obtaining Credit Estimate
Project management: engaging with development and production teams as well as external partners to lead project and give updated timelines on track progress
Work with downstream business endusers in order to provide Tactical Data quality remediation
Work with technology in order to provide strategic data quality remediation work effort analysis, monitor progress and report status to senior management
Managing, reviewing all our Vendor contract on an annual basis
Manage our Ares India team with all task outsource and build out better KPI reporting's

Qualifications:
Education

Bachelor's degree in Finance or other businessrelated discipline

Experience Required:

Minimum of 10 years of experience in high quality, global capital markets or investment management firms with expertise in Operations
Experience in Investment Operations, Fund Accounting, Information Technology or Software Development life cycle preferred
Prior experience with an alternative asset manager preferred, broader asset management experience preferred
Strong Understanding of Bank Loans
Understanding of Bloomberg and Markit Vendors
Strong fixedincome product knowledge, Credit Facilities, CLO's, CDO's variable rates securities, and fixed income securities
Experience with Tableau, SQL, or PowerBI
Hedge fund, Credit or Private Equity experience is a plus

General Requirements:

Sound understanding of financial data and diverse investment vehicles (such as Institutional Separate Accounts, SMA/Limited Partnerships, Open-End Mutual Funds, Closed-End Funds, UCITs, etc.)
Familiarity with institutional asset management research, trading workflows, and associated systems. Solid understanding of the data points associated with different asset classes
Ability to extract meaningful information from extensive research and analysis to effectively present facts and findings in a digestible format, a keen eye for attention to detail
Experience managing internal and external stakeholders and leading project prioritization discussions to drive product vision and roadmap.
A selfdirected individual with a cando attitude, willing to work in an energetic, collaborative and fastpaced environment, proactive in nature, and a proven ability to resolve issues with mínimal supervision
Proven outstanding communication (written and verbal), presentation, documentation, and interpersonal skills
Expert with Excel for data analysis, including modeling and complex lookups
A handson approach and ability to synthesize business operations and talent needs
Ability to successfully manage multiple priorities and competing demands
High accuracy and detail or