Associate Director, Deal & Insurance Advisory Group

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.

Apollo Insurance Solutions Group (“ISG”) seeks an Associate Director for its El Segundo based headquarters.  This is a position in a recently established Deal and Insurance Advisory Group that has been tasked with facilitating the structuring of private credit deals and assisting up- and downstream functional teams with onboarding private credit deals into ISG’s systems. This position will work closely with investment professionals and various (senior) stakeholders across the firm to support and drive processes around private credit deals. The position is expected to have a comprehensive understanding of the deal lifecycle of all asset classes (e.g., asset-backed financing, private credit, and real assets). The position will be expected to communicate daily with investment teams and be able to independently contribute by having a thorough understanding of deal structures. This includes the understanding of deal economics, deal documentation, and the ability to transform key deal terms to appropriate accounting setup. This position will be involved in the end-to-end deal lifecycle; from deal pipeline tracking, to deal structuring, and pre- and post-close.

Since this position is on a newly established team, this role also involves working with various (senior) stakeholders on identifying areas for improvement in activities to enhance efficiency and effectiveness of the group. It is therefore expected that this position will collaborate with a wide group of stakeholders to draft recommendations on how to transform the team’s objectives and approach in a strategical and tactical manner (including the leveraging of technology platforms).

Primary Responsibilities

• Ensure all unique and complex deals are structured in compliance with regulatory and US GAAP and STAT reporting requirements.

• Understand deal documentation and translate key deal terms for entry into ISG’s systems.

• Support front-, middle-, and back-office teams to be able to record new, complex investments and transactions accurately and timely onto ISG’s systems.

• Identify opportunities to streamline and improve processes, leveraging technology and best practices to enhance efficiency, effectiveness, and accuracy.

• Undertake special projects or initiatives under the wider investment accounting pillar as assigned by senior management. This may involve analyzing potential investments, implementing new accounting standards, system migrations and/or participating in strategic planning efforts.

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance

• Professional accounting qualification (CPA) preferred.

• 5+ years of relevant work experience in public accounting or in industry with an investment accounting and/or investment structuring role.

• Considered to be a SME that can dive into and quickly resolve any issues/anomalies relating to income, amortization/accretion, book value changes, and cash flows.

• Strong communication, organizational, and strong interpersonal skills; ability to work across all functions/levels as part of a team ability to mentor and teach staff/senior accountants across all aspects of investment accounting functions (income, controls, analysis/review procedures).

• Experience working with (senior) stakeholders, investment professionals and external clients.

Personal Attributes

• Self-motiv