Senior Associate, Investment Operations

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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.

Summary

Job Description

The successful candidate sits within Ares Singapore and will be part of the Investment Operations Team in Asia. The Investment Operations group supports all aspects of investment support working very closely with the Investment team on both credit and private equity deals. The Investment Operations Team in Asia comprises Portfolio Managers (PM(s)) with each PM leading a deal from an operational perspective by working closely with the deal lead from Investment Team. Each PM thus holds a deal portfolio which he / she actively manages; including taking help from within the Team (e.g. Associates / Senior Associates) accordingly.

Primary Functions & Essential Responsibilities

• Provide support in ensuring the investing infrastructure is ready for execution of investments. This include amongst others the following :
• Assist with onshore account openings with banks, custodians, intermediary platforms, and brokers;
• Assist with license applications specifically required for investing in onshore jurisdictions;
• Assist with KYC and AML compliance for accounts in India and other jurisdictions;
• Prepare tax residency applications for investing entities and ensure ongoing maintenance.
• Provide timely transaction management to key stakeholders (e.g. Investment Team) from an operational perspective; This includes assisting during pre-funding phase, approval processes, funding of transaction and post-funding monitoring / repatriation of receipts
• Works closely and assist PM in deal structuring and execution matters
• Effective stakeholder management (i.e. Investment team, Fund Accounting team, Asset Management Team, Compliance Team, Legal and Corporate Secretarial team, bankers, custodians other stakeholders) to ensure timelines of deal closing are adhered to
• Manage investment proceeds, ensuring timely receipt, effective repatriation, and necessary follow-up actions.
• Coordinate with the Investment Team and Asset Management Team on outstanding / delayed receipts and work together on resolution of such matters.
• Scheduling various committee meetings / board meetings and ensure investment minutes are drafted and followed up with
• Maintain operational records (centralized or decentralized) and control files of each investment
• Maintain and review monitoring trackers for various investment related controls and datapoints to ensure robust investment monitoring
• Assist in scaling long term capabilities, which could include technology applications for operational monitoring activities to be executed in an efficient and effective manner
• Keeping abreast with the changing regulations and analyzing its impact on the existing operations
• Participate in identifying, establishing and implementing strong processes, and robust operating models, systems and governance in deal execution activities from an operational perspective
• Any other operational duties required of the individual which could fall under the investment life cycle

Education

Skills And Abilities Required

About Ares Asia

With a pan-Asian presence, Ares Asia is one of the largest alternative asset managers in Asia-Pacific with approximately US$14.8 billion in assets under management. Led by a highly experienced management team that has delivered attractive investment performance across various market cycles, transaction types and Asian countries, Ares Asia leverages its broad geographical footprint and extensive infrastructure in the region to make credit, private equity, and special situations investments on behalf of its institutional client base.

Ares Asia’s team has been consistently recognized for industry accolades, including Private Debt Investor’s Distressed Debt Investor of the Year, Asia-Pacific in each of the last six years. Ares Asia was founded in 2009 as SSG Capital and was renamed after the acquisition in July 2020 by Ares Management Corporation (NYSE : ARES).

About Ares Management

Ares Management Corporation (“Ares” or the “Firm”) is a publicly traded (NYSE : ARES), leading global alternative asset manager with approximately $464 billion of assets under management (“AUM”) and over 3,140 employees. We seek to deliver attractive performance to our investor base across our investment groups and strategies, including credit, real assets, private equity, and secondaries. The Firm is headquartered in Los Angeles with offices across the United States, Europe, Asia and Australia.

Ares Management LLC (together with its related operating and administrative subsidiaries, “Ares Management”) is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and considers all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, ethnicity, creed, sex, age, national origin, alienage or citizenship status, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, marital status, partnership status, sexual orientation, status regarding public assistance, military or veteran status, domestic violence victim status, gender identity and expression, transgender status, genetic information, status as unemployed, political affiliation or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law.

Ares Management will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of the Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance.

Reporting Relationships

Principal, Investment Operations

There is no set deadline to apply for this job opportunity. Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis until the search is no longer active.

Seniority level

Seniority level

Mid-Senior level

Employment type

Employment type

Full-time

Job function

Job function

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