Lead Business Analyst, Investran

Position Overview

At Apollo, we’re a global team of alternative investment managers passionate about delivering uncommon value to our investors and shareholders. With over 30 years of proven expertise across Private Equity, Credit and Real Estate, regions and industries, we’re known for our integrated businesses, our strong investment performance, our value-oriented philosophy – and our people.

Seeking a multi-talented, high-energy Investran SME / business analyst to act as an Investran administrator and business analyst for Apollo’s Fund Finance Technology group.  The ideal candidate provides visible leadership and accountability over projects and daily tasks; works independently and exhibits a high degree of initiative in resolving problems and developing recommended solutions.

The candidate will work across several industry domains, including credit, private equity and real estate, so a broad understanding of finance is essential.  The candidate also needs to have a mix of business analysis capabilities and technical acumen.  In addition to Investran, the Fund Finance IT team owns several custom applications at Apollo; accordingly, a technical mindset is desired to be effective member of the team.

Oversight and management of Apollo’s partnership accounting platform (Investran), as well as business analyst responsibilities for tasks and initiatives associated with Investran.

Primary Responsibilities

• Management of the Investran transaction types, accounts and hierarchies.

• Onboarding of new products (legal entities and vehicles)

• Management of UDFs, page layouts and DIU templates

• Management and development of Investran reports

• Management of Investran team security and related processes

• Management/execution of Investran upgrades.  Experience with Investran Live a big plus.

• Developing functional specifications for Investran automation modules (Active Templates and/or Business Events)

• Managing projects to integrate Investran with vendor platforms and custom applications, as well as modifying existing integrations

• Managing projects to automate extraction of data from Investran

Qualifications & Experience

• 8 – 10 years of relevant work experience required; bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution required

• Administrator-level knowledge of the Investran accounting platform required.

• Strong Microsoft Excel skills required.

• Experience with web services and REST strongly preferred

• SQL skills strongly preferred

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.

Our Purpose & 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 respon