Senior Associate, Financial Planning & Analysis

Ares Management Corporation•New York, NY

1d•$130,000 - $150,000

About The Position

Ares is seeking an experienced Associate to join its Global Corporate Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) team in New York as the dedicated FP&A partner for evergreen funds within the Infrastructure Equity strategy. The role owns fund-level financial models and provides integrated planning, forecasting, performance analysis, and decision support in partnership with the Infrastructure Equity team and finance stakeholders. The ideal candidate brings advanced financial modeling skills, strong accounting and financial statement knowledge, and the ability to turn complex fund and portfolio data into clear insights and recommendations.

Requirements

At least three years of experience in investment banking, private equity, corporate finance, FP&A, accounting, valuation, or another highly analytical finance role.
Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to distill complex research, analysis, and model outputs into clear findings and presentation materials.
Exceptional attention to detail and sound judgment.
Ability to manage multiple workstreams and deadlines.
Expert analytical, data management, and financial modeling skills using Excel and advanced technology solutions.
Familiarity with financial planning, consolidation, reporting, and analytics applications, including Oracle, Hyperion, OneStream, Power BI, Anaplan, Alteryx, and Workiva.
Genuine interest in Infrastructure Equity fund fundamentals and technology-driven workflow improvements.
Collaborative, team-oriented approach, strong interpersonal skills, and a sense of ownership.
Self-motivated and proactive, with a can-do attitude and the ability to resolve issues independently in a fast-paced environment.

Nice To Haves

Undergraduate and/or advanced degree in finance, accounting, economics, engineering, or mathematics.
Familiarity with midstream, power generation, digital infrastructure, transportation, or other infrastructure subsectors.
Experience building, maintaining, or working with relational, hierarchical, SQL, or Access databases.

Responsibilities

Support the FP&A VP and build effective relationships across the Infrastructure Equity investment team, fund and corporate accounting, tax, divisional CFO organization, and technology teams.
Support annual budgeting, periodic forecasting, and long-range planning for the Infrastructure Equity strategy’s evergreen funds.
Integrate investment-level assumptions into fund-level forecasts, including performance, cash flows, liquidity, leverage, NAV, earnings, distributions, and investor returns.
Analyze actual and forecasted performance, identify business drivers and risks, and explain variances against forecasts, budgets, underwriting cases, and realized results.
Translate fund performance and model outputs into management fee, incentive fee, and other earnings forecasts used in divisional and consolidated planning and reporting.
Prepare analyses and materials for senior leadership, investment committees, and other internal stakeholders.
Own and maintain fund-level financial models for evergreen funds within the Infrastructure Equity strategy.
Partner with investment, tax, accounting, and other stakeholders to incorporate new investments, fund developments, revised performance expectations, updated funding assumptions, and actual results into models.
Coordinate recurring fund-model inputs across deal teams, validate submissions, facilitate review, and escalate material changes or unresolved issues.
Maintain model integrity through version control, documentation, reconciliation, and review procedures.
Reconcile model outputs with investment reporting, accounting records, periodic valuations, and fund financial statements in partnership with fund and corporate accounting.
Develop insights and recommendations from model outputs to support capital allocation, portfolio construction, financing, liquidity management, and other fund-management decisions.
Partner with investment and tax teams to maintain forecasts of taxable income, earnings and profits, and other relevant fund-level tax attributes.
Prepare and review analyses for investor, lender, board, and internal committee reporting packages.
Support ad hoc financial analysis and strategic initiatives for the Infrastructure Equity team and Global Corporate FP&A leadership.
Improve the efficiency, accuracy, and scalability of fund-level planning, forecasting, reporting, and analytical processes.
Support development and enhancement of dashboards, management reporting, and analytical tools.
Identify opportunities to automate recurring workflows and use new technology and data solutions.
Promote consistent FP&A practices, controls, documentation, and reporting standards.