Vice President - Financial Planning & Analysis - Credit

JOB DESCRIPTION

PRIMARY FUNCTIONS AND ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES

- Lead and supervise a team focused on Financial Planning & Analysis supporting Ares' Direct Lending businesses.

- Actively work on continuous improvement focusing on creating operational efficiency and better controls.

- Provide overall direction to Financial Planning & Analysis team to assure synchronized teamwork that accomplishes daily, monthly, quarterly and annual financial and operational goals & objectives.

- Ensure process and procedures are adequate to meet quality standards and are consistently applied and regularly reviewed.

- Responsible for overseeing team that maintain daily, monthly and quarterly deliverables for 20+ credit facilities and liquidity processes

- Responsible for onboarding and implementing processes for new entities and credit facilities

- Responsible for reviewing and analyzing monthly variance reports and ad-hoc requests from both internal and external groups including lenders, rating agencies, investor relations, fund accounting

- Responsible for building and overseeing forecast projection models for both public and private funds

- Oversee various automation projects related to debt facilities and forecast projection models

- Manage various ad-hoc projects

Qualifications

- Approximately 14+ years of relevant work experience

- Bachelors' degree or master's degree in related field (Finance, Accounting or Economics) from an accredited institution

- Chartered Accountant / MBA

- CPA license is a plus

General Requirements:

- Ability to work in a fast-paced, high growth environment; excited about working in a start-up environment with the backing and infrastructure of a well-established industry leader.

- Excited about team building and mentoring junior colleagues.

- Excellent communication skills and the ability to analyze and summarize complex information both verbally and in writing with internal and external stake holders.

- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills; ability to multi-task and manage various deadlines.

- Excellent organizational and interpersonal skills; attention to detail and timelines required.

- Experience with Microsoft Power BI, Tableau or Alteryx is a plus.

- Working knowledge of Excel is required (advanced skills such as VBA is a plus).

- Ability to successfully manage multiple priorities and competing demands

- A hands-on approach and ability to synthesize business operation needs

- A solutions-oriented, self-starter and ability to see the big picture

- An analytical mind and a passion/interest in bringing new ideas to increase efficiency of existing processes

- Good judgment in terms of escalating issues vs. solving problems independently

- Strong planning, organization, and analytical skills

- Dependable, great attitude, highly motivated and a team player