Associate Director -Liquidity & Transformation

Position Overview

ABOUT APOLLO

Apollo is a high-growth, global alternative asset manager. In our asset management business, we seek to provide our clients excess return at every point along the risk-reward spectrum from investment grade to private equity with a focus on three investing strategies: yield, hybrid, and equity. For more than three decades, our investing expertise across our fully integrated platform has served the financial return needs of our clients and provided businesses with innovative capital solutions for growth. Through Athene, our retirement services business, we specialize in helping clients achieve financial security by providing a suite of retirement savings products and acting as a solutions provider to institutions. Our patient, creative, and knowledgeable approach to investing aligns our clients, businesses we invest in, our employees, and the communities we impact, to expand opportunity and achieve positive outcomes.

OUR PURPOSE AND CORE VALUES

Our clients rely on our investment acumen to help secure their future. We must never lose our focus and determination to be the best investors and most trusted partners on their behalf. We strive to be:

The leading provider of retirement income solutions to institutions, companies, and individuals.

The leading provider of capital solutions to companies. Our breadth and scale enable us to deliver capital for even the largest projects – and our small firm mindset ensures we will be a thoughtful and dedicated partner to these organizations. We are committed to helping them build stronger businesses.

A leading contributor to addressing some of the biggest issues facing the world today – such as energy transition, accelerating the adoption of new technologies, and social impact – where innovative approaches to investing can make a positive difference.

We are building a unique firm of extraordinary colleagues who:

Outperform expectations

Challenge Convention

Champion Opportunity

Lead responsibly

Drive collaboration

As One Apollo team, we believe that doing great work and having fun go hand in hand, and we are proud of what we can achieve together.

OUR BENEFITS

Apollo relies on its people to keep it a leader in alternative investment management, and the firm’s benefit programs are crafted to offer meaningful coverage for both you and your family. Please reach out to your Human Capital Business Partner for more detailed information on specific benefits.

POSITION OVERVIEW:

At Apollo, we’re a global team of alternative investment managers passionate about delivering uncommon value to our investors and shareholders. With over 30 years of proven expertise across Private Equity, Credit and Real Estate, regions, and industries, we’re known for our integrated businesses, our strong investment performance, our value-oriented philosophy – and our people.

Apollo is seeking a strong finance professional to join the Treasury transformation and strategic initiative’s function which is part of the Finance Organization. The Treasury transformation and strategic initiative’s function is responsible for the financial modeling, budgeting, forecasting, senior management reporting, and rating agency strategy and communications related to the firm’s liquidity position, balance sheet, cash sources and uses, capital structure, and debt capacity. The Associate Director position is structured to provide exposure to liquidity and capital management, tracking as well as forecasting to support senior management decision making. Expert in systems implementation, advanced excel user who can automate existing processes, code in Python to revamp treasury analytics across capital and liquidity management, rating agency models, cash management.  Build management reporting and dashboards. Support strategic initiatives, project management.

Primary Responsibility:

• Manage outreach and receipt of data to support liquidity and capital forecasting requirements.
• Drive forecasts and reporting for monthly and quarterly submissions, annual budgeting, ad-hoc requests based on liquidity and capital management.
• Support and collaborate with multiple areas across verticals to assist in collating information and structuring senior management presentations.
• Maintain projections for key rating agency metrics (e.g. leverage, interest coverage)
• Collaborate with team members and Technology in drive towards forecast and analytics automation.
• Gain knowledge of capital and liquidity models and assist in strategic capital management.
• Collaborate with multiple teams across Treasury to develop reports and analytics to drive business decisions.
• Develop and implement robust process controls to ensure data integrity and consistency.
• Support other impromptu projects as needed.

Qualifications & Experience

• Minimum 10 years progressively responsible and related professional experience required; preference given to candidates with rating agency experience.
• Demonstrated knowledge and understanding of financial statements, liquidity and capital management as well as experience in financial planning and financial/research analysis
• Exposure to complex organizational structures
• Highly analytical; excellent Excel user skills are required.
• Experience building and working with power BI, Tableau dashboards. 
• Experience in automating processes using advanced excel, SQL, Python etc
• Robust PowerPoint presentation skills are required.
• Strong attention to detail and organizational skills
• Flexible and comfortable working in a fast-paced, rapidly changing environment
• Executes with independence, high energy and a "can-do" attitude.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Demonstrated track record of analytical & conceptual thinking, enjoys working in a team environment.
• Master’s degree in finance, accounting, management, or economics or equivalent work experience is required. (CA, CFA qualification will be a preference)