Senior Associate, Investment Operations (Reconciliation)

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

Summary: The Associate Vice President is responsible for the responsible to work on Cash and PAR Reconciliation for Bank loan Products.

Primary responsibilities:

• Proactively research, resolve and prevent all cash and par breaks with custodian banks and third party administrators

• Direct fund administrators and custodian banks on appropriate processing and review/reconcile processing output for accuracy

• Reporting Cash & PAR breaks with custodian banks and third party administrators

• Sound knowledge for Loan life cycle events Rollover, Paydown , Borrowing, PIK etc

• Knowledge on loan restructure and corporate action events

• Work with all internal and external stakeholders to improve and enhance settlement workflows

• Prepare daily, weekly, monthly and quarterly KPIs reporting and Powerbi system knowledge is a strong plus.

• Review daily recons between internal systems and third parties and resolve discrepancies, including MLR discrepancies

• Influencing and participating in decisions on policies/procedures designed to ensure compliance with internal, legal and regulatory policies and ensure changing business requirements are met

• Contribute ideas and recommendations to improve process efficiencies and increase risk mitigation

• Participate in meetings representing recon and participate in department initiatives such as system enhancements, off hours testing and new business conversions as necessary.

Required knowledge:

• Strong fixed income product knowledge, particularly bank loans

• Strong understanding of the bank loan industry and standards

• Understanding of custodian bank/administrator’s and agent’s data

• Highly proficient in Microsoft Excel

• Proficient in Microsoft Outlook, Word , ClearPar, Wall Street Office and Geneva

Experience / Education :

• Graduate with 7 to 10 years of investment management operations experience with high emphasis on bank loan operations/ Settlement

• Experience working with an outsource/offshore service provider

• Experience working with custodian and agent banks

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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.