Associate, Strategic Finance – Equity

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 is looking for an Associate to play a key, hands-on role to support the Equity & Hybrid businesses’ budgeting and forecasting exercises, analyze results and performance against budget, and perform ad hoc analyses. The focus of the role will be on budgeting, forecasting and generating ad-hoc analytics across the growing Equity & Hybrid ecosystem. The role will also analyze key business drivers and report on the underlying business performance across the platform with a focus on Fee Related Earnings (FRE), strategic initiatives and other special projects, including new funds/strategies/platforms and financial impact to the firm. This person will help develop presentations for senior management on a monthly basis and work with the broader Strategic Finance team on all deliverables. This role will require frequent interaction across business finance, CFOs and other internal stakeholder groups.

Primary Responsibilities

Your responsibilities will include:

• Maintain and further develop detailed and flexible models supporting annual budget, long-term plan, and monthly forecast updates (including various scenario/”what-if” analyses)

• Prepare monthly and quarterly management reporting packs, tracking actuals vs. budget / forecast for key metrics

• Analyze variances, trends, risks and opportunities, performance against budget/forecast/targets, key business drivers and sensitivities

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

• Support development and improvement of the financial reporting and business analysis framework; enhance reporting techniques and tools and work with Technology to automate reporting processes

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

• 3+ years of financial analysis experience, ideally in Investment Banking, FP&A, Big-4 valuation or advisory services

• 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

• Operates with high energy and a "can do" attitude

• Excellent communication and presentation skills

• Experience with OneStream or other corporate performance management system a plus (e.g. Essbase/Hyperion)

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 solution