Tax Business Analyst, Associate

Position Overview

ABOUT APOLLO

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.

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 – and our small firm mindset ensures we will be a thoughtful and dedicated partner to these organizations. We are committed to helping them build stronger businesses.

A leading contributor to addressing some of the biggest issues facing the world today – such as energy transition, accelerating the adoption of new technologies, and social impact – where innovative approaches to investing can make a positive difference.

We are building a unique firm of extraordinary colleagues who:

Outperform expectations

Challenge Convention

Champion Opportunity

Lead responsibly

Drive collaboration

As One Apollo team, we believe that doing great work and having fun go hand in hand, and we are proud of what we can achieve together.

POSITION OVERVIEW:

At Apollo, we’re a global team of alternative investment managers passionate about delivering uncommon value to our investors and shareholders. With over 30 years of proven expertise across Private Equity, Credit and Real Estate, regions and industries, we’re known for our integrated businesses, our strong investment performance, our value-oriented philosophy – and our people. We are seeking a hands-on tax engineer responsible for driving the effective use of technology for the reporting, compliance and operation functions of Apollo’s Tax Team globally. The Tax Engineer will enable solutions that will optimize the Tax function to improve data quality, increase automation, reduce risk, and deliver on the strategic plans of the Tax department. Key to the position are the abilities to understand the tax process requirements, capture those needs, define data dependencies and flows, manage projects, timeline and risks, and consider the impact of regional requirements to global tax technology-based solutions.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Work with finance, accounting, engineering, and other business partners to drive the implementation of tax software, establish and automate processes
• Coordinate Tax Department’s technology requirements
• Create business requirements documents, including an overall data strategy and roadmap
• Configure tax technology solutions using tools, such as Alteryx, Power BI, Snowflake, Pyramid, and Python.
• Manage multiple external vendors that support the Tax processes.
• Monitor and stay up to date on emerging tax technology trends and continually reevaluate and revise the tax technology strategy to ensure optimal results.

Qualifications & Experience

• Project management experience, leading multiple projects at the same time
• Broad-based knowledge of US and/or UK Tax.
• Strong development / configuration skills in at least one of the following: Snowflake, Thomson Reuters OneSource, Alteryx, Pyramid, Python, Salesforce, RPA and Microsoft’s suite of products
• Strong interpersonal skills to collaborate with technology teams and business areas
• Experience with implementing tax technology solutions, including all aspects of the technology design, development, and implementation lifecycle, and working with cross-functional implementation teams to successfully integrate applications
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills
• Independent and self-motivated.
• B.S. / B.A. with 5+ years of Engineering and Tax experience.

Apollo provides equal employment opportunities regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, veteran status, gender/sex or sexual orientation, or any other criterion or circumstance protected by applicable law, ordinance, or regulation. The above criteria are intended to be used as a guide only – candidates who do not meet all the above criteria may still be considered if they are deemed to have relevant experience/ equivalent levels of skill or knowledge to fulfil the requirements of the role. Any job offer will be conditional upon and subject to satisfactory reference and background screening checks, all necessary corporate and regulatory approvals or certifications as required from time to time, and entering into definitive contractual documentation satisfactory to Apollo.