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
Team management and leadership
Managing a team of appx 10 strong CA’s/finance professionals. This may increase as we grow further
Self -motivator to develop future leaders within the team
Managing monthly/ quarterly/ yearly close process
Role will include -Expense accounting, analysis, BS accounting and reporting
US GAAP accounting
Fixed Assets – managing the entire life cycle of the assets- processing subledger additions, monthly and ad hoc journal entries, A/P voucher corrections, account reconciliations, and preparing support for analysis of capitalized costs
Reconciliations – Intangible, Goodwill & Deferred Rent and other account reconciliations
Managing other monthly corporate close processes for domestic and international entities, acquisitions including running system processes in the accounting system, preparing journal entries, completing reconciliations, running expense and non-operating income allocations, and preparing other files and analysis to support operating expenses, foreign currency revaluation, and more areas
Providing support and interacting with groups outside of the corporate accounting department, such as external providers for audit requests, fund accounting teams for billings, and other business groups within the organization to validate coding, allocations, and other information
Assisting/ leading in ad hoc projects and tasks as needed
Intercompany–Review and approving of entries and recording of offsetting entries including posting the invoice
JV accounting – managing books of accounts, monthly/ quarterly reporting for various JV’s
Consolidation
Coordination and providing support to the SEC reporting team
Value addition: Automation and process re-engineering
End to end accountability and ownership of the process
Liaising with peers in other departments for best practice developments and process improvements
