Over the last 20 years, Ares’ success has been driven by our people and our culture. Today, our team is guided by our core values – Collaborative, Responsible, Entrepreneurial, Self-Aware, Trustworthy – and our purpose to be a catalyst for shared prosperity and a better future. Through our recruitment, career development and employee-focused programming, we are committed to fostering a welcoming and inclusive work environment where high-performance talent of diverse backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives can build careers within this exciting and growing industry.

Job Description

Ares is looking for an Analyst to join the Los Angeles Investment Operations team.  The Investment Operations team works closely with business stakeholders in three lines of business (Credit, Private Equity and Real Estate) as well as various corporate functions.  The Analyst will be responsible for partnering with the Associate Vice President and ownership around Data Integrity tasks.  The team primarily works out of the Los Angeles office in partnership with the team in India.  The ideal candidate would have experience leveraging third party resources while being thoughtful about strategic planning around pricing with an ability to anticipate and respond to future business needs.  The successful candidate will also have experience with acquisitions and integrations and a deep familiarity of the fixed income asset class.  The role requires a dynamic, adaptive, experienced hands-on professional to ensure best practices in a fast-paced rapidly growing environment.

Reporting relationships

Reports to: Sr Associate, Investment Operations (Data & Pricing)

Primary functions and essential responsibilities

Specific responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Work with key partners in all business lines to assist with data management including but not limited to:  security reference, credit data integrity

• Interact with all market data vendors including but not limited to: Markit, Moody’s, S&P, Fitch and Bloomberg

• Serve as a key partner to the firm’s portfolio managers in delivering timely and accurate security investment information

• Interfacing with Traders, Portfolio managers, New Accounts Group, Fund Accounting, Performance and Compliance

• Work closing with the different business functions in order to capture Critical Data Elements (CDEs) used in their end-user process

• Assist Data Quality Control Group with maintenance of accurate and consistent information flows

• Track and monitor the data quality issues that are discovered and provide status to senior management Data Quality Issues

• Work with downstream business end-users in order to provide Tactical Data quality remediation

• Work on reconciling data attributes with our admin to ensure we have correct data integrity with all our platforms

• Work with the vendors to update data issues and have monthly calls with the team to over repeated themes

• Work with technology in order to provide strategic data quality remediation work effort analysis, monitor progress and report status to senior management

• Establish strong working relationships with the business and Technology teams to facilitate application support and adoption

Qualifications

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance or other business-related discipline

Experience Required:  

• Minimum of 2 years of experience in high quality, global capital markets or investment management firms with expertise in Operations

• Experience in Investment Operations, Fund Accounting, Information Technology or Software Development life cycle preferred

• Prior experience with an alternative asset manager preferred, broader asset management experience preferred

• Understanding of bank loans preferred

• Understanding of Bloomberg and Markit Vendors

• Strong fixed-income product knowledge, CLO’s, CDO’s variable rates securities, and fixed income securities

• Hedge fund, Credit or Private Equity experience is a plus

General Requirements:

• Sound understanding of financial data and diverse investment vehicles (such as Institutional Separate Accounts, SMA/Limited Partnerships, Open-End Mutual Funds, Closed-End Funds, UCITs, etc.)

• Familiarity with institutional asset management research, trading workflows, and associated systems. Solid understanding of the data points associated with different asset classes

• Ability to extract meaningful information from extensive research and analysis to effectively present facts and findings in a digestible format; a keen eye for attention to detail