Senior Associate, Data & Performance Reporting

Ares Operations•Los Angeles, CA

1d•$125,000 - $150,000

About The Position

Ares Management is currently seeking an experienced and detail-oriented Senior Financial Associate to join the Finance and Accounting team in Los Angeles as part of the firm’s Real Estate group. The Senior Financial Associate will work closely with the global F&A team in partnering across our enterprise with the Performance team, divisional Real Estate CFOs, senior Finance leadership senior investment professionals, Investor Relations team, information technology resources and developers. They will provide day-to-day support with respect to calculating, analyzing, communicating and reporting fund returns/metrics. The ideal candidate will possess public and private experience alongside strong leadership and business stakeholder relationship skills. Specific responsibilities include the creation, maintenance, and enhancement of data tracking and reporting procedures, the development and troubleshooting of the Real Estate data infrastructure, and the creation of dashboards to enhance the reporting of investment-level, fund-level and LP Net performance. The candidate will also provide support in the marketing efforts, and enhance overall data analytics capabilities. The candidate must possess data analytical skills and have a working knowledge of financial principles and key investment metrics such as TWR, IRR and MOIC. Some program management experience is preferred. This candidate will be expected to understand complex fund structures, waterfalls and gross to net return differences. This role will also require a dynamic, adaptive, and agile hands-on professional who will be capable of ensuring optimal performance and processes in a fast-paced rapidly growing environment.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or Finance required
Minimum of 5+ years of experience in Finance and Accounting, Public Accounting, Corporate Finance or a related field with an understanding of Real Estate fund structures, investment property structures, and alternative investments.
Strong understanding of Accounting principles and public company financial statements (income statements & balance sheets)
Experience measuring, analyzing or reporting investment performance
Technically proficient with all MS Office applications like Excel (Macro), Visio, PowerPoint and visualization tools like Power BI
Ability to manage challenging workflow in-fast paced, dynamic organization, managing multiple assignments in a deadline driven environment
Experience managing internal and external stakeholders and leading project prioritization discussions to drive product vision and roadmap.
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
Strong sense of ownership and accountability
Organizational skills, demonstrated ability to manage competing priorities and lead large scale projects to completion
Ability to multi-task and prioritize deadlines; result oriented
Change agent / leader, self-motivated, self-starter
High accuracy and detail orientation
Excellent communication (written, verbal, presentation, documentation) and client service skills; capability of interacting with key stakeholders to direct prioritization of program related activity
Ability to analyze and summarize complex information clearly, both verbally and in writing
Experience and ability to proactively and continuously identify and analyze problem situations to develop an effective and improve course of action for resolution
Ability to work independently within a fast-paced environment with a hands-on approach
Ability to be flexible in terms of hours in order to coordinate with team members across time zones
Comfort in dealing with ambiguity and uncertainty in a dynamic environment
Dependable, great attitude, highly motivated and a team player

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree preferred
Public and private experience a plus.
Knowledge of fund operations, fund structures, and characteristics of various financial instruments preferred.
Knowledge of GIPS and performance measurement concepts preferred.
Knowledge of data architecture, database structures, and database design preferred.
Project management experience preferred.

Responsibilities

Calculate, monitor, evaluate, and analyze investment, portfolio level and composite returns (TWR, IRR, Multiples, etc.)
Research returns that are outside of acceptable ranges and ensure adherence to internal guidelines.
Communicate results with internal groups
Lead and assist with projects that facilitate improvements across the REG, including performance data review, validation, and efficiency improvements where needed
Must be able to research questions through analysis of financial information
Aggregation, analysis and management of portfolio and investment return data on a levered, unlevered, gross basis, net basis, actual and projected data
Assist in data aggregation for RFP, DDQ and RFIs for fundraising
Financial modeling, enhancement of modeling, data capture (including asset level) and reporting
Aggregation of data for presentations targeted at existing and/or potential investors
Contribute expertise to team and organizational efforts in relation to systems and internal processes
Work directly with equity portfolio management team for the collection and aggregation of deal level models and returns
Participate in other projects as requested by management