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VP – Data & Performance Reporting – Fund Accounting
Company | Ares Management |
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Location | Los Angeles, CA, USA |
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Salary | $175000 – $210000 |
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Type | Full-Time |
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Degrees | Bachelor’s |
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Experience Level | Senior, Expert or higher |
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Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
- Minimum of 7-10 years of related experience in financial accounting, performance, data analytics, or data science.
- Strong knowledge of data analytics, statistics, and data storytelling.
- Proficiency in analyzing financial data from general ledgers and financial statements.
- Technically proficient with all MS Office applications like Excel (Macro), Visio, PowerPoint and visualization tools like Power BI.
- Ability to manage challenging workflow in a fast-paced, dynamic organization, managing multiple assignments in a deadline-driven environment.
- Excellent organizational skills with the ability to manage competing priorities and lead large-scale projects to completion.
- Excellent communication skills (written, verbal, presentation, documentation) and client service skills; capability of interacting with key stakeholders to direct prioritization of program-related activity.
Responsibilities
- Ensure seamless data flow from the accounting system to database and dashboards.
- Identify data quality issues, evaluate how to process new transaction types and support data governance initiatives.
- Document data governance processes and provide training to F&A team and new hires.
- Build and optimize data pipelines and ETL processes for high-quality data integration.
- Collaborate with data engineering teams to enhance data infrastructure and tracking platforms.
- Actively engage in data testing and systemization.
- Develop innovative solutions to increase efficiency and enhance reporting and analytical capabilities of the team.
- Design, develop, and maintain intuitive dashboards and reports using data visualization tools like Power BI.
- Work with F&A team on regular dashboard reporting and troubleshoot issues as needed.
- Calculate, monitor, evaluate, and analyze investment, sector, portfolio level and composite returns (TWR, IRR, Multiples, etc.).
- Manage and analyze portfolio and investment return data on various bases (levered, unlevered, gross, net, actual and projected).
- Research returns that are outside of acceptable ranges and ensure adherence to internal guidelines. Communicate results with internal groups.
- Drive consistency and standardization on performance metrics calculations across the respective business strategies within PE and Opportunistic Credit.
- Contribute expertise to team and organizational efforts in relation to systems and internal processes.
- Work directly with F&A and deal team for the collection and development of deal level and fund level models and returns.
Preferred Qualifications
- Knowledge of fund operations, fund structures, and characteristics of various financial instruments preferred.
- Knowledge of GIPS and performance measurement concepts preferred.
- Knowledge of data architecture, database structures, and database design preferred.
- Project management experience preferred.