Director, Business Management CFO - Credit

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 is seeking a Director to assist with providing day-to-day financial and business support to the Credit business.  This role will report to the Credit Business Management Chief Financial Officer (CFO). This role will support all activities associated with setting and tracking financial and business objectives, performance monitoring, business analytics, and ad-hoc business initiatives at the request of senior management.

Primary Responsibilities

• Assist Business Management CFO team with driving the execution of financial and business objectives across Credit pillars, focused on optimizing commercial impact and facilitating revenue creation.

• Coordinate across all Finance disciplines (e.g., Controllers, Strategic Finance, Investor Relations, Accounting Policy, etc.), Business Chief Operating Officer (COO) teams, and other firmwide stakeholders as needed to drive effective decision-making in support of Credit priorities.

• Closely monitor fund-level activity (e.g., capital formation, origination and deployment) against expectations, with deep understanding of business drivers and financial implications.

• Play a critical role in setting and tracking originations assumptions in partnership with business stakeholders; manage projections and impact on Credit KPIs.

• Assist with executive narrative around performance drivers and outlook for Credit business.

• Act as key contributor towards monthly forecasts, multi-year planning processes and other recurring deliverables focused on the full economic profile of the Credit business.

• Work closely with fund controllers, Strategic Finance, and members of the Credit COO team to develop actionable insights for Credit leadership as well as drive strategic initiatives for the business.

• Ensure expense vigilance across the Credit franchise, with early indicators of expense drivers, close monitoring of variance against expectations and proactive management of risks and opportunities.

• Provide transparency around profitability drivers and formulate recommendations that can support revenue enhancement.

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree or its equivalent.

• 8+ years of experience in financial services, investment management or a related field.

• Excellent quantitative, analytical, and modeling skills with advanced knowledge of Excel, MS Access, Macros, and Power Point.

• Highly organized, keen attention to detail, and able to effectively manage multiple processes simultaneously.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• Strong interpersonal skills to interact effectively with various internal and external constituents.

• Embraces a culture centered on teamwork and is flexible with job responsibilities.

• Strong judgment needed to: i) foresee potential risks and roadblocks to task completion; and ii) identify effective solutions.

• Excels in a rigorous and fast-paced work 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