Job Description
Summary:
Ares is seeking a Senior Associate to join the Performance and Attribution team in our London office. This is a unique opportunity to be part of a high-performing global team, with a primary focus on calculating and analyzing investment portfolio and composite performance, including detailed attribution and contribution analysis. The role also involves delivering timely asset-level track records and providing tailored performance insights to support portfolio management, investor relations, and marketing efforts.
An ideal candidate for this Senior Associate role is a self-motivated professional with a consulting mindset—skilled at asking insightful questions, building strong relationships, and quickly adapting to meet deadlines. They are highly organized and possess a strong client-service orientation, effectively managing multiple priorities in a dynamic, fast-paced environment. The candidate should have a proven track record of success and experience thriving in high-growth, rapidly evolving settings.
Primary Functions and Essential Responsibilities:
- Calculate and interpret single period and multi-period contribution and attribution results, and performance-based risk and appraisal metrics for portfolio management and investor relations teams.
- Calculate security, sector, and total-level performance results for use in internal, client, and shareholder reporting, and performance composites.
- Ensure that data properly flows from the accounting system to the performance system and help to troubleshoot and resolve issues as necessary.
- Adhere to procedures designed to ensure compliance with the Global Investment Performance Standards (GIPS), SEC, and FINRA regulations.
- Fulfill ad hoc client and marketing requests, and answer DDQ and RFP questions.
- Assist with executing strategic projects such as asset track records, onboarding assets from acquisitions and integrating non-supported business units.
- Help develop innovative solutions to increase efficiency and enhance reporting and analytical capabilities of the team.
Education & Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in a business-related or quantitative field preferred (e.g. economics, statistics, mathematics, finance, accounting, etc.).
- CFA charter and/or CIPM designation is desirable.
- Commitment to pursue CIPM designation for candidates without CFA charter or CIPM designation.
Experience:
- 3 - 5 years of performance-related experience is required.
- Understand of performance concepts, including time-weighted returns, money-weighted returns, contribution etc.
- Strong fixed-income product knowledge, including leveraged loans, high yield bonds, derivatives, and other fixed income instruments is desirable
- Strong Microsoft Office skills required
- Experience using Eagle Performance and Bloomberg is desirable.
- Basic understanding of Python, SQL, and PowerBI is a plus.
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
- Excellent organizational and interpersonal skills
- Dependable, great attitude, highly motivated and a team player
- Strong attention to detail with high level of accuracy and process ownership.
- High accuracy and detail orientation; confident decision-making skills
- Able to pick up and work with new technology solutions (Power BI, multiple Excel add ins, SharePoint. Etc.)
- Outstanding communication (written and verbal), presentation, documentation, and interpersonal skills; strong customer focus
Reporting Relationships
Principal, Performance & AttributionThere 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.
