Associate Director, 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 Strategic Finance team equips senior leadership with actionable financial insights and projections, which are utilized in firm-wide decision-making.  The team’s core responsibilities include financial modeling, budgeting, forecasting, and ad hoc analyses covering both existing and new businesses.

The Strategic Finance team is seeking an Associate Director to join in a high-exposure role tasked with managing capital formation and P&L projections for Apollo’s Client & Product Solutions group.  

Primary Responsibilities

• The individual will serve as a business partner to the Client Product Solutions group and manage all processes associated with delivering monthly forecasts and multi-year projections

• Responsible for the preparation of materials utilized in monthly executive meetings and the presentation of business P&L reviews to key stakeholders

• Tasked with enhancing the scope and content of existing reporting & analyses to better serve a growing stakeholder base

• Assist with design, implementation, and user-testing of systems-based special projects

Common to all primary responsibilities:

• Produces high quality, timely and insightful information to help senior leadership manage the firm and set direction

• Responds in a timely manner to all ad hoc questions and requests for information

Qualifications & Experience

• 7+ years of financial services experience, ideally in FP&A, Big-4 Valuation / Advisory, or Financial Reporting

• Ability to manage recurring processes, meet deadlines, and produce actionable analyses

• Highly analytical; excellent Excel-based modeling skills are required

• Exceptional PowerPoint presentation skills are required

• Strong analytical thinking and financial reasoning capabilities with ability to think creatively

• Strong attention to detail and organizational skills

• Flexible and comfortable working in a fast-paced, highly demanding, rapidly changing environment

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 to deliver capital for even the largest projects – and our small firm mindset ensures we will be a thoughtful and dedicated partner to these organizations. We are committed to helping them build stronger businesses.

A leading contributor to addressing some of the biggest issues facing the world today – such as energy transition, accelerating the adoption of new technologies, and social impact – where innovative approaches to investing can make a positive difference.

We are building a unique firm of extraordinary colleagues who:

Outperform expectations

Challenge Convention

Champion Opportunity

Lead responsibly

Drive collaboration

As One Apollo team, we believe that doing great work and having fun go hand in hand, and we are proud of what we can achieve together.

OUR BENEFITS

Apollo relies on its people to keep it a leader in alternative investment management, and the firm’s benefit programs are craft