Security Master Professional

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.

Apollo Global Management is seeking an individual to work as a Security Master Analyst within its Operations division. This team provides operational support to various Funds, Separately Managed Accounts and Portfolio companies managed by Apollo, a leading global alternative asset management company. The candidate should have qualities to understand the operations groups’ internal applications (Security Master, Front End Platform, Accounting System, and Reporting Tool). A good understanding on the synchronization and workflow of the different applications used within the operations group day to day is a must. Due to the volatile nature of this business and rapid technological improvements, the candidate would also be required to participate in testing phases during implementations and integrations of our internal applications and processes. While the major role of this candidate would be Security Master and Reference data management, a good understanding of the entire operational workflow process is recommended. Functional responsibilities will include various asset type setups, maintenance of reference data across several platforms, periodic reconciliation for CLO trustee reporting, platform testing/integration and many ad-hoc requests from several different internal as well as external contacts.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:

Key responsibilities also include the following:

• New security set up and ongoing maintenance of Security Master T&C and UDF’s across all Sec Master Platforms

• Maintain Sec Master Data in of all internal Security Master Platforms (Everest, VPM, Markit EDM, Aexeo, Thinkfolio, TradeFlow) and understand synchronization between them.

• Work alongside our compliance team to make sure new security set ups comply with Compliance Policies, Ops Teams to insure proper booking of assets and the Front Office regarding support of trading activities.

• Create and maintain all reference data in Everest, VPM, EDM and Thinkfolio. Below are the more commonly maintained peripheral data groups: Country, Funds/Fund Groups, Currency, Security Types, Holiday Calendar, Strategies, Executing/Clearing Brokers, Issuers, Exchanges

• Participate in project related work to create enhancements within Security Master team & Operations.

• Complete/analyze daily and monthly CLO trustee reporting for reference data inaccuracies.

• Synergize daily with satellite team members to cohesively complete tasks.

Qualifications & Experience

Ideal candidates will have experience in a few of the following areas:

• Loans (Term, Revolving, Delayed Draw, Bridge, Private/Credit Agreements)

• Bonds (Corp, Gov’t, CVB, Forwards)

• Credit Default Swaps (Index, Tranche, Single Name)

• Equities (Stock, Depository Receipts, ETF’s)

• Forward Currency Contract

• Options (FX, Index, Equity, IRS/CDX, OTC)

• Interest Rate Swap

• Spread Locks

• Total Return/Equity Swaps

• Mortgage Backed Sec

• Knowledge of Security Master and Reference data

• Appreciation of data quality, completeness, and controls

• Demonstrated experience in process improvements

• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills required

• Experience with Bloomberg and rating agencies (S&P, Moody’s, Fitch) a plus

• Experience with VPM, Everest, Markit Partners, Thinkfolio, and EDM is a plus

• Project management experience is a plus

• Experience with offshore or satellite teams is a plus

To qualify, candidates must have the following:

• Undergraduate Degree with 2-7 years of relevant experience

• GPA 3.0 and above

• Must be able to multi-task and demonstrate a high learning aptitude