Chief Operating Officer (COO) – Internal Audit, SOX & Third-Party Assurance

Apollo • New York, NY

14d

About The Position

Apollo is a high-growth, global alternative asset manager. In our asset management business, we seek to provide our clients excess return at every point along the risk-reward spectrum from investment grade to private equity with a focus on three investing strategies: yield, hybrid, and equity. For more than three decades, our investing expertise across our fully integrated platform has served the financial return needs of our clients and provided businesses with innovative capital solutions for growth. Through Athene, our retirement services business, we specialize in helping clients achieve financial security by providing a suite of retirement savings products and acting as a solutions provider to institutions. Our patient, creative, and knowledgeable approach to investing aligns our clients, businesses we invest in, our employees, and the communities we impact, to expand opportunity and achieve positive outcomes. Come to Apollo and join a community of extraordinary people who are committed to a culture of excellence and collaboration in everything that we do. We invest in our people for the long term and are committed to supporting their development at every stage of their career. The Internal Audit, SOX, and Third-Party Assurance function has successfully delivered its first three-year strategic plan, establishing strong foundations across governance, risk coverage, controls, and execution. As Apollo continues to grow across regions, products, and new business activities, the function is now focused on defining its next three-year horizon. The COO will support the Chief Audit Executive (CAE) and assurance leadership in refreshing strategy, strengthening enterprise alignment, and ensuring the function delivers forward-looking, actionable insight that keeps pace with a dynamic global business. This role requires deep risk and controls expertise, strong operational leadership, and high emotional intelligence. Success is measured by the ability to elevate the organization—creating clarity, alignment, and momentum while enabling teams to operate as One Team, One Voice.

Requirements

• 10-12 years of relevant experience at an investment bank, consulting firm, asset manager, or in a corporate strategy role with a focus on financial reporting process improvements and project management.
• A critical thinker with strong quantitative and analytical skills who expresses their thoughts and ideas clearly both in oral and written communications.
• A collaborative thinker who can also work independently, multitask and prioritize competing demands to meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
• A proactive and organized self-starter with a positive attitude, powerful work ethic, strong attention to detail and advanced knowledge of Excel and PowerPoint.
• A change cultivator, with a strong technology background and a focus on automation and process improvements.
• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution required.

Nice To Haves

• Public accounting experience and/or experience in internal audit/SOX/SOC preferred but not required.

Responsibilities

• Strategy & Operating Model Partner with Internal Audit, SOX, and Third-Party Assurance leadership to shape the next phase of the function’s evolution. Key Deliverables: A clearly articulated three-year strategic plan and operating roadmap aligned to the integrated leadership vision, business growth, regional expansion, and emerging risks. Translation of strategy into annual priorities, milestones, and execution plans.
• Risk, Controls & Assurance Insight (Team and Enterprise Alignment) Provide deep expertise across internal controls, SOX, operational risk, and third-party assurance, with strong alignment to enterprise risk partners. Key Deliverables: A quarterly, insights-focused synthesis of emerging risks and trends, leveraging risk assessment dashboards and inputs from enterprise partners. – specifically ensuring Risk Assessment dashboards by Coverage lead are updated timely, and challenged Review & assess reporting from risk/control functions and ensure coordination across Internal Audit, SOX, SOC risk functions (Enterprise Risk, Compliance, Legal, Technology, Operations, Finance, and regional leadership). Clear, concise content for quarterly management and Board reporting, as appropriate.
• Team Metrics & Operational Delivery Drive disciplined execution of initiatives, regulatory commitments, and transformation efforts within budget. Key Deliverables: Governance routines and executive-level dashboards tracking progress, risks, budgets, and dependencies across the three assurance pillars. Ownership of the multi-year capability roadmap, including data, analytics, and tooling enhancements.
• Financial & Resource Management Provide financial and capacity oversight Key Deliverables: Ownership of FTE and third-party budgets and forecasts, aligned to strategic priorities. Visibility into resource capacity and constraints to enable timely trade-off decisions; monitoring of utilization and vendor spend.
• Leadership, Proxy & Escalation Act as a trusted extension of the CAE and leadership team. Key Deliverables: Ongoing support to CAE on priorities and execution. Logging, monitoring, and driving timely escalation and remediation of key issues to maintain momentum and accountability.
• People, Culture & Talent Strengthen culture and build critical capabilities across the function. Key Deliverables: Talent strategy, workforce planning, recruiting, and onboarding in partnership with Human Capital and team leaders. Assessment of required competencies and capabilities, identification of gaps, and a clear plan to elevate skills and leadership depth across the team.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Executive