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 a leading participant in the global asset-based finance markets with approximately $45.9 billion of assets under management (“AUM”) invested across multiple, actively managed funds as of March 31, 2025. The Alt Credit Team today comprises over 80 investment professionals located primarily in three Ares offices: New York City, Atlanta, and London.

Ares’ Alt Credit platform employs strategies that are asset-focused, making investments backed by assets and contractual cash flows such as loans, leases and receivables. Alt Credit fills gaps in the capital markets between credit, private equity and real estate, investing across a spectrum of liquid and illiquid opportunities that include various specialty finance sectors, net leases, structured products, cash flow streams (e.g., royalties, licensing, management fees), and other asset types. Alt Credit has a broad range of sub-strategies designed to be client-focused and solutions-based with three main formats: pure play, customized and flagship funds.

Primary functions and essential responsibilities:

The Senior Associate will be responsible for helping manage and streamline investor reporting and data analytics for the Alternative Credit Product Management and Investor Relations team. The Senior Associate will also be involved with ongoing investor relations activities for Alternative Credit funds and separately managed accounts, which may include, but are not limited to, product development, marketing strategy, and the creation of marketing and due diligence materials.

The role supports key strategic priorities and provides a high degree of visibility to senior management and investors.

Key responsibilities include:

• Manage and review investment, fund and portfolio reporting for internal and external use
• Assist with investment portfolio monitoring, analysis and modeling
• Assist with managing investment portfolio data and related data governance and data integrity processes
• Reconcile data and lead coordination to resolve any breaks
• Liaise across functions (investment, asset management, finance & accounting, performance, legal, tax, operations, compliance teams) to obtain and synthesize information
• Provide support for investor requests, reports, and presentations in relation to fund performance and updates
• Identify opportunities to streamline business operations and processes by creating more efficient methods of gathering, sorting, accessing data through the application of technology
• Assist with monthly, quarterly and year-end fund reporting as well as ad-hoc investor requests
• Prepare responses for request for proposals (RFPs), DDQs, track record analyses, consultant questionnaires/databases and investor requests
• Update trackers, CRMs and relevant meeting notes, coordinate logistics for fundraising meetings and industry conferences

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree required with outstanding academic achievement
• 6+ years of relevant work experience in investor relations, client service/operations, investment banking, analytics, asset management, or consulting preferred
• FINRA Series 7, 63 and SIE licenses required (or ability to obtain within 3 months from start date)

General Requirements:

• Exceptional attention to detail, placing a high priority on accuracy and organization
• Problem solver with ability to research solutions and suggest resolutions
• Highly motivated with the ability to set priorities, multi-task, and monitor own workload to meet aggressive deadlines
• Takes initiative and has a strong work ethic, including proactively addressing projects at hand and improving processes
• Demonstrated experience working in a team environment
• Strong intellect with solid quantitative, financial and analytical skills
• Quantitative: facility with numbers and data, and adept at identifying and resolving errors
• Highly proficient in Word, PowerPoint and Excel with modeling skills (v-lookup, macros, pivot tables)
• Proficiency with Salesforce and Intralinks or other data room platform
• Experience with PowerBI or other data visualization software, databases such as SQL
• Exposure to asset-based finance and structured credit desired

Reporting Relationships

Compensation

$135,000.00 - $145,000.00

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.