Director of Strategic Finance - Asset Management

Position Overview

About Apollo

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.

Overview

The Director of Strategic Finance plays a key, hands-on role to coordinate budgeting and forecasting exercises for the company, analyze results and performance against budget, and perform ad hoc analyses. The focus of the role will be on budgeting, forecasting and generating ad-hoc analytics for the Asset Management (FRE) business. The role will also analyze key business drivers and report on the underlying business performance across the platform with a focus on Fee Related Earnings (FRE), strategic initiatives and other special projects, including new fund/strategies and financial impact to the firm. This person will develop presentations for senior management on a monthly basis and with the broader Strategic Finance team on all deliverables. This is a highly visible role and requires frequent interaction with business finance, CFOs and the senior executive team.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate with business-level CFOs, Business Leads, senior management, and other stakeholders to define business reporting and analytics requirements and oversee execution of deliverables.

• Coordinate the annual budget process, interim forecast updates, and long-term plan.

• Oversee analysis of strategic transactions and projects, interfacing with professionals across the organization.

• Oversee the preparation and analysis of monthly management reports and other analytics.

• Produce high quality, timely and insightful information to help senior management manage the firm and set direction. Respond in a timely manner to all ad hoc questions and requests for information. Become a one stop, widely recognized source for high quality management information for various departments.

• Analyze variances, trends, risks and opportunities, performance against budget/forecast/targets, key business drivers and sensitivities.

• Oversee the preparation of presentations and key analyses for Senior Management.

• Perform special projects and other duties as required by the needs of the business.

• Develop and improve the financial reporting and business analysis framework; enhance reporting techniques and tools and work with Technology to automate reporting processes.

Qualifications & Experience

• 10+ years of experience with at least 5 years of experience at a Financial Institution

• CFA or CPA preferred

• MBA is not required but a plus

• Strong technical accounting (GAAP) skills with credit and capital markets experience

• Operates with high energy; successful “up-and-comer” with endless passion and drive

• Has a record of confident leadership, sound judgment and creative solutions

• Demonstrated ability to partner with and influence senior level stakeholders

• Excellent communication skills and organizational savvy with experience managing teams

• Ability to train and lead high performing talent

• Analysis requires high level of cognitive and financial reasoning capabilities

• Strong Excel skills

​Apollo Global Management Inc. is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.  The firm and its affiliates do not discriminate in employment because of race, color, religion, gender, national origin, veteran status, disability, age, citizenship, marital or domestic/civil partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression or because of any other criteria prohibited under controlling federal, state or local law.