Vice President, Ares Asia Fund Accounting

Vice President, Ares Asia Fund Accounting

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

Primary functions and essential responsibilities

• Lead and supervise a team focused on Fund Accounting & Financial Reporting supporting Ares Asia Credit businesses.
• Actively work on continuous improvement focusing on creating operational efficiency and better controls, including cross-strategies benchmarking and synergy.
• Provide overall direction to fund accounting team to assure synchronized teamwork that accomplishes monthly, quarterly and annual financial and operational goals & objectives.
• Ensure process and procedures are adequate to meet quality standards and are consistently applied and regularly reviewed.
• Work with and liaise with teams across the organization, including communications with portfolio managers, investor relations, operations, tax, compliance and financial reporting along with external fund administrators and external auditors to meet all monthly, quarterly and annual reporting deadlines.
• Work with the tax team to administer timely and thorough payment of tax estimates and liabilities for all legal entities that require special handling.
• Manage monthly and quarterly close processes, including review work of accounting staff, along with producing original workpapers and analyses.
• Review of quarterly and annual US GAAP/IFRS (or any local accounting standards) financial statements and footnote disclosures for multiple funds as well as capital account summaries for investors.
• Review calculation of management fees, incentive fee/carry, PCAPS & complex waterfall calculations.
• Assist with preparation of financial statements for monthly reporting and quarterly and various regulatory reporting requirement including those of Indian Income Tax Regulations and IFSCA (International Financial Services Centres Authority).
• Oversee and review daily and monthly NAV packages from the fund administrator.
• Review of  compliance reporting
• Review calculation of IRR, Capital calls /Collateral calls, Distribution calculation/Notices, Credit facility management, Tax / VAT Returns & FX Hedging.
• Review cash flow projections and daily cash management, including activity on credit lines, expected settlement timing of purchases and sales, and timing of capital calls and capital distributions.
• Monitor compliance with the Fund’s Limited Partnership Agreements and credit facilities, including the preparation or review of compliance reporting.
• Prepare and assist with ad-hoc limited partner reporting, analyst and front-office requests.
• Assist with preparation of information provided to tax team for quarterly tax estimates and annual returns.
• Review and approval of expense activity and authorization of bank wires.

qualifications

• Approximately 10+ years of relevant work experience
• Bachelors’ degree in related field (Finance, Accounting or Economics) from an accredited institution
• Chartered Accountant or CPA license preferred

General Requirements:

• Ability to work in a fast-paced, high growth environment; excited about working in a start-up environment with the backing and infrastructure of a well-established industry leader.
• Excited about team building and mentoring junior colleagues.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to analyze and summarize complex information both verbally and in writing with internal and external stake holders.
• Strong judgment in identifying, analyzing and escalating issues in a timely manner, with the ability to proactively present potential solutions.
• Able to work on high-level projects globally or across strategies, collaborating with various teams. 
• Excellent organizational and prioritization skills, with the ability to manage conflicting deadlines, while maintaining a high level of accuracy and attention to detail.
• Strong knowledge of accounting, generally accepted accounting principles and financial reporting is required.
• Experience with open- and close-ended funds along with in depth understanding of complex fund structures in both private equity and open-ended funds.
• Experience in either working as an auditor in alternative investment space or experience of closely working with internal and external auditors.
• Experience with bank debt, bonds, structured products and other fixed income products and a corresponding valuation approach.
• Should be open for occasional business travel to Hong Kong or United States.
• Experience with Alternative Investment Funds and Gift City Investment Fund in India is a plus.
• Experience with Microsoft Power BI, Tableau or Alteryx is a plus.
• Working knowledge of Excel is required (advanced skills such as VBA is a plus).

Reporting Relationships

Chief Accounting Officer

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.

Experience Level

Executive Level