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Job Description

Ares is currently searching for a highly motivated, detail oriented team player to join as an Associate in the Private Equity Investor Relations Group in the New York City or Los Angeles office. This individual will be part of a team working closely with investment professionals from the private equity group in order to provide investor relations support, including written and oral communications with existing and potential investors, market and competitor research and analysis, investor presentation support, and completion of due diligence and ad hoc investor requests. The candidate must have strong organizational, interpersonal, quantitative and analytical skills and must be able to meet deadline requirements. The individual would have the potential opportunity to gain additional investor relations responsibilities within the firm over time.

The Associate will work in the PE Investor Relations team and support Product Specialists in providing information and expertise on firm strategies and funds to clients. This person will assist in building client materials and various prospects/marketing materials, updating market and fund specific data within existing materials on a monthly, quarterly or ad hoc basis. The person will also be responsible for tailoring materials to reflect market environment to meet needs of various users.

Primary functions and essential responsibilities:

• Interface and develop strong working relationships with all internal subject matter experts of the Firm (portfolio management, business development, operations, legal, compliance and human resources)
• Respond to a broad range of client requests for our various flagship funds
• Build and “own” client materials and various prospect/marketing materials, updating market and fund specific data within existing materials on a quarterly or ad hoc basis
• Drive process for creating responses to investor questionnaires, due diligence, and ad hoc requests for existing and potential clients
• Maintain quantitative and qualitative key metrics on competitors
• Assist Product Specialists in scoping new fund strategies
• Help to identify areas of risk and pro-actively propose innovative business solutions required to increase the efficiency of information flow and communication channels between different areas of the business
• Take on ad hoc projects and support all other teammates with their work as needed
• Create and edit marketing investor materials for co investment and funds

Qualifications:

• Strong verbal and written communication skills, ability to communicate effectively with all levels of the organization and represent the Firm in a professional manner
• Exceptional attention to detail, placing a high priority on accuracy and organization
• Problem solver with ability to research solutions and suggest resolutions
• Highly motivated self-starter with the ability to set priorities, multi task and monitor own workload to meet aggressive deadlines
• Creative, ready to think outside the box and add input to improving existing workflows
• Takes initiative and has a strong work ethic
• Proficiency in financial accounting and quantitative analysis skills
• Demonstrated experience working in a team environment with multiple tasks
• Highly proficient in Word, PowerPoint and Excel
• Bachelor’s degree or international equivalent with a minimum of 3-4 years related work experience in the financial industry, preferably within private equity or distressed debt
• Demonstrated strong academic performance

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