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Job Description

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


Primary functions and essential responsibilities
  • Build and maintain relationships with stakeholders
  • Analyze business processes and architect prioritized solutions focused on meeting firm and business unit objectives
  • Act as liaison between business users and vendors / development resources to facilitate large scale change and technology initiatives
  • Build and execute inter-team project plans, keeping stakeholders and sponsors informed throughout the project lifecycle
  • Product ownership of applications used by the Operations team and responsibility of staying ahead for its strategic, development and support needs
  • Identify opportunities to improve business processes and operational efficiency; recommending solutions and build as necessary
  • Analyze the data from various sources, identify patterns, structures and data life-cycle
  • Analyze user requirements and issues; provide the best fit solution, while maintaining the integrity of existing applications
  • Act as liaison to internal development team by translating business requirements into functional requirements and by maintaining all developed applications
  • Build requirements for Data-Model, integration, and process workflow
  • Drive quality control, to maximize value of various systems​
  • Perform QA and UAT testing throughout all future systems iterations
  • Provide direction and support to vendors / application developers when application changes require knowledge of or changes to system functionality
  • Form strong working relationships with internal users - both business and technical - to facilitate application support and adoption
  • Act as liaison to internal development team to maintain custom developed applications
  • qualifications

    Education:


  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Accounting, or Finance
  • MBA and / or CFA certifications are a plus
  • Prior experience in alternative investment manager, hedge fund or retail investment management firms preferred
  • Experience Required:  


  • 5 + years of total experience with at least 3 years in a Business Analyst role
  • Prior experience as a business analyst, SME in credit or alternative asset management firms is a plus
  • Prior experience in the business a plus
  • Must have experience working in small project teams
  • Experience working directly with business teams is a plus
  • General Requirements:


  • Prior hands on knowledge as a business analyst on industry leading reference data, accounting, operations, valuation, risk or performance systems (IVP, Bloomberg, Markit, S&P, Intex, etc.)
  • Strong analytical skills to identify patterns of data and structures to correlate data from multiple sources
  • Ability to synthesize business challenges and clearly present a business case, able to explain complex concepts in a clear and concise manner
  • Strong organization and documentation skills
  • Strong SQL skills to work with large volumes of data
  • Familiarity with institutional trading workflows and technology
  • Experience with Agile methodology is desirable
  • Experience with a large, functionally diverse, and informed user base that demands high quality applications Ability to manage multiple projects and iterations
  • Able to prioritize in a fast moving, high pressure, constantly changing environment
  • Demonstrate excellent communication (verbal and written) and time management skills with an ability to multitask, prioritize and meet deadlines
  • A self-directed individual with a can-do attitude, willing to work in an energetic, fast-paced team environment, a proactive nature and the ability to resolve issues with minimal supervision

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Principal, Technology India

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