Senior Associate - Auditing - Private Equity

Sr associate- Auditing for Private Equity

REPORTING/DEPARTMENT & GROUP RELATIONSHIPS

Reports to : Vice President (Private Equity) in Mumbai

Member of : Ares Private Equity Accounting team with colleagues in Mumbai and Los Angeles

PRIMARY FUNCTIONS AND ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES :

- Be a founding member of a new small team focused on Fund Accounting, initially supporting Ares' Private Equity and Special Opportunities / Special Situations businesses.

- Ensure process and procedures are adequate to meet quality standards and are consistently applied and regularly reviewed.

- Work with and liaise with internal resources (primarily colleagues in the U.S.), external fund administrators, and external auditors to meet all monthly, quarterly and annual reporting deadlines.

- Perform monthly and quarterly close processes, including review work of external administrators, along with producing original workpapers and analyses.

- Review and/or reperform quarterly and annual GAAP financial statements and footnote disclosures for multiple funds as well as capital account summaries for limited partners.

- Review and/or reperform calculation of management fees and complex waterfall calculations.

- Produce cash flow projections and analyze daily cash management, including activity on credit lines, expected settlement timing of purchases and sales, and timing of capital calls and capital distributions.

- Monitor compliance with the Fund's Limited Partnership Agreements and credit facilities, including the preparation or review of compliance reporting.

- Prepare and assist with ad-hoc limited partner reporting, analyst and front-office requests, working in conjunction with colleagues in Los Angeles to ensure timely response to our investors

- Assist with preparation of information provided to tax team for quarterly tax estimates and annual returns.

- Review and approval of expense activity

- Actively work on continuous improvement as we work to build out our new Ares India office.

QUALIFICATIONS :

- Approximately 5-8 years of relevant work experience

- Bachelors/PG degree in related field (Finance, Accounting or Economics) from accredited institution