Senior Associate - Investment Operations (Middle Office)

Senior Associate, Investment Operations (Middle Office)

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:

• Review and validate initial setup of securities in data reference system
• Track elements of the deal closing process and ensure receipt of executed documents
• Scrub credit agreements for key data point and ensure all systems are updated accurately
• Review final deal closing checklists and validate all tasks were correctly executed
• Perform various data checks to ensure the accuracy of key data points
• Perform daily checks to ensure payments for ABS, CMBS, CLO equity deals are processed in timely manner.
• Review cash and position breaks across multiple asset types and ensure resolution and escalation (as necessary)
• Perform various reporting tasks, control checks, and reconciliations on a daily, weekly and monthly basis
• Run metrics on key performance indicators
• Participate in meetings representing recon and participate in department initiatives such as system enhancements, off-hour testing and new business conversions as necessary.
• Knowledge of Private Credit funding documentation like Utilization requests & Funds flow statement
• Hands on experience on Preparing trade booking files.
• Experience on internal cash movements along the funds structure.
• Knowledge of Amendments and restructurings for Loans.
• Experience on working for agented and non-agented deals.
• Experience on end-to-end Deal closing and funding
• Liaising with various parties like agents, sponsors, custodians and counterparties to ensure timely settlement.
• Well versed with direct lending and bilateral loan funding process.
• Knowledge of trade settlement in clearpar and trade closure will be added advantage

Qualifications:

• Education: Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited university in Finance or related discipline

Experience Required:

• Strong knowledge of credit agreements
• Strong knowledge of bank loans
• Knowledge of Geneva accounting system, Wall Street Office (WSO), & ClearPar preferred
• Strong written and verbal communications skills
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office
• Knowledge of complex fund structures a plus
• Minimum 6 years of relevant operational experience
• Experience with structured products including ABS, CMBS, and CLO Equity
• Experience with various types of investment vehicles (hedge funds, BDC’s, CLO’s, etc.)
• Experience in loan servicing, notice processing, and corporate actions/restructures
• Experience in cash/position reconciliations
• Experience on OMS and Deal Cloud will be added advantage.

Reporting Relationships

Principal, Investment Operations

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

Senior Level