COO Associate, CAO & Strategic Finance

Position Overview

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.

The successful candidate for the COO Associate role will join a team of over 250 professionals supporting the firm’s Chief Accounting Office & Strategic Finance teams. The role will be part of a COO function providing support to both the AGM CAO and the Head of Strategic Finance, working closely with both functions’ leadership teams. In this role, the candidate will be heavily involved in developing and managing a broad range of priorities alongside key stakeholders and will regularly have exposure to senior management.

Primary Responsibilities

As a member of the COO team, you will manage multiple responsibilities across the team including:

• Business Strategy & Execution: Support COO Team & Business Leaders in all aspects of business growth/change, including progressing on our target operating model and assisting with technology integrations and data governance to improve efficiencies and scalability.

• Project Management: Responsible for developing and expanding governance routines to control team’s complex processes, reporting and initiatives. Support expansion of a multi-year roadmap for the team’s operational capabilities and strategic priorities.

• Team Culture: Work on culture initiatives and be an active culture-carrier. This will include helping to coordinate communications, all-hands, offsites and other events across the department as well as working closely with the Engagement Council on our identified goals. This role will also be an active member in the broader COO community and collaborate across functions.

• Ongoing Business Reviews & Reporting: Contribute to recurring business reviews to update senior leadership on all key initiatives including growth strategy, data quality, financials/reporting, and controls.

• Special Projects: Execute on ad-hoc requests from senior leaders; examples include preparing communications, reporting, and project timelines.

Qualifications & Experience

• 3+ years of relevant experience at an investment bank, consulting firm, asset manager, or in a corporate strategy role with a focus on financial reporting process improvements and project management.

• A critical thinker with strong quantitative and analytical skills who expresses their thoughts and ideas clearly both in oral and written communications.

• A collaborative thinker who can also work independently, multitask and prioritize competing demands to meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment.

• Operates with high degree of achievement and curiosity about helping to drive strategic initiatives and change across an organization

• Exceptional Excel & PowerPoint skills

• A proactive and organized self-starter with a positive attitude, powerful work ethic, strong attention to detail

• Shown ability to partner with senior level stakeholders

• Outstanding analytical skills with the ability to develop business insights

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution required

OUR PURPOSE AND CORE VALUES

Our clients rely on our investment acumen to help secure their future. We must never lose our focus and determination to be the best investors and most trusted partners on their behalf. We strive to be:

The leading provider of retirement income solutions to institutions, companies, and individuals.

The leading provider of capital solutions to companies. Our breadth and scale enable us t