Sr. Associate, GL Reporting

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 & responsibilities

• Oversee the expense accounting process, conduct detailed financial analysis, and prepare comprehensive reports on expense trends and variances.
• Maintain and reconcile balance sheet accounts, ensuring all entries are accurate and timely.
• Manage the monthly close process for domestic and international entities, including acquisitions. This involves 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.
• Perform reconciliations for balance sheet accounts including intangible assets, goodwill, deferred rent, etc.
• Manage the debt roll-forward process.
• Provide support and interact 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.
• Assist in various ad hoc projects and tasks as needed.
• Liaising with peers in other departments for best practice developments and process improvements
• Intercompany transactions – Recording of offsetting entries including posting the invoice including review and approving of entries.
• US GAAP knowledge will be preferred.

qualifications

Education:

•  Chartered Accountant with post-qualification experience of 6+ years or equivalent financial degrees, looking for relevant experience.

Experience Required:  

• Strong technical accounting knowledge- BS, expenses, accruals, reconciliations, MIS reporting, allocations, inter-company transactions
• Financial services/ asset management organization experience is good to have
• Strong analysis and understanding of financial statements required
• US GAAP knowledge will be preferred
• Good knowledge of Oracle will be preferred

General Requirements:

• Excellent communication and e-mail writing skills.
• Strong proficiency in Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and Outlook.
• Experience with Oracle Fusion, OneStream, TrinTech, Power BI a plus.
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail but can still see big picture.
• Ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to identify and analyze problems and to develop an effective course of action.

Reporting Relationships

Associate Vice President

There is no set deadline to apply for this job opportunity. Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis until the search is no longer active.