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
Reporting relationships
Reports to: Senior Associate
Supervises: N/A
Primary functions & responsibilities
The Associate will work in the Asian Credit group, and the incumbent will handle a certain distinct allocated list of investments and shall perform the following activities for that account.
Asset Management
- Primary responsibility is to monitor the assigned private credit and/or structured equity investments
- Prepare periodic monitoring memo and maintain financial models for assigned investments.
- Collaborate with the deal team on quarterly valuation exercises and expected cash flow modelling for assigned investments.
- Undertake valuation of investments, assess and update valuation methodologies as investments evolve through their lifecycle, and draft valuation commentaries and supporting reports in conjunction with portfolio managers.
- Support ad hoc requests, including but not limited to - supporting the deal team in parts for the new deal analysis, data initiatives and process improvement projects.
- Ensure data integrity across various systems and reporting processes, including troubleshooting data-related issues and discrepancies.
- Collaborate and develop robust working relationships with internal stakeholders across Asset Management, Investment Teams, Finance, Operations, Legal and Compliance.
Investor Relations
- Produce monthly and quarterly portfolio reporting mate