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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.\nJob Description\nSUMMARY\nAres is looking for a highly motivated Senior Associate to join its Investment Operations team and play a critical role in supporting the Firm’s growing private debt platform.\nThis is an opportunity to work at the center of the private credit investment lifecycle - partnering with investment professionals, Portfolio Management, Trading, Legal, Compliance, Fund Accounting, Performance, and Technology to ensure complex private debt investments are accurately captured, operationally ready, and supported by high-quality data from day one.\nThe role is ideal for someone who enjoys combining credit expertise, analytical problem-solving, legal document interpretation, and technology. You will become a key point of connectivity between executed deal documentation and the systems, data, and workflows that support Ares’ investment platform.\nBeyond day-to-day execution, you will have the opportunity to help shape how private debt investments are onboarded, governed, and maintained - improving processes, strengthening controls, and partnering with technology teams to reduce manual work and scale the platform.\nPRIMARY FUNCTIONS & ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES\nReview and interpret complex investment documentation, including credit agreements, note purchase agreements, prospectuses, amendments, borrowing base certificates, funding notices, and related legal documents to identify the economic, legal, and operational terms required for investment setup and ongoing maintenance.\nLead the setup and onboarding of new private debt investments, including loans, structured credit assets, commercial and residential mortgage loans, private placements, and other credit instruments across internal systems and downstream books and records platforms.\nCapture and maintain critical deal and security-level data, including issuer, borrower, guarantor, facility type, spread, base rate, floor, maturity, payment frequency, day count, amortization, original issue discount, fees, call protection, PIK features, and covenant-related attributes.\nPartner with Compliance on legal entity and obligor structures, including the review of structure charts and maintenance of relevant legal entity information.\nCollaborate with investment strategies and business teams to identify and maintain additional business, reporting, and regulatory data requirements, including strategy-specific user-defined fields.\nLeverage platforms such as DealCloud, AlphaStream, and IVP SecMaster to onboard investments, maintain deal and security-level information, and support the integrity of the investment record throughout the full asset lifecycle.\nCoordinate across Investment, Portfolio Management, Trading, Legal, Compliance, Operations, Fund Accounting, Performance, and external counterparties to resolve discrepancies between executed documentation, internal approvals, and system setup requirements.\nPartner closely with Portfolio Managers, Traders, and investment professionals to ensure new transactions are established accurately and on time ahead of funding, settlement, accounting, and portfolio reporting deadlines.\nPerform quality control reviews of newly onboarded assets and subsequent document-driven changes to ensure completeness, consistency, accuracy, and auditability across systems and downstream consumers.\nDevelop and maintain operating procedures, data standards, and control checklists covering document review, security setup, reference data, and ongoing private debt maintenance.\nWork with Technology and Data teams to enhance onboarding workflows, reduce manual touchpoints, improve automation, and strengthen integrations between document review processes and investment platforms.\nSupport cross-system reconciliation and remediation efforts by identifying data exceptions, researching root causes, and driving timely resolution of inaccurate or incomplete deal and security information.\nParticipate in project management, process improvement, and data governance initiatives designed to strengthen the scalability and control environment of the private debt platform.\nProduce management reporting and operational metrics focused on onboarding timeliness, setup quality, data exceptions, control effectiveness, and operational risk.\nHelp train and develop junior team members and offshore resources on credit documentation, security setup standards, data quality expectations, and private debt control processes.\nServe as a subject matter resource for private debt onboarding and security master processes, helping identify opportunities to improve workflows, strengthen controls, and enhance data quality across the broader investment platform.\nQUALIFICATIONS:\nBachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or another business-related discipline.\n\nMinimum of 5-7 years of relevant experience in investment operations, middle office, security master, onboarding, or asset data management within a credit-focused investment manager, bank, or alternative asset management platform.\nDirect experience supporting private debt, bank loans, privately originated credit, or note investments.\nDemonstrated ability to read and operationalize legal documentation, including credit agreements, note purchase amendments, amendments, and funding notices.\nHands-on experience with DealCloud, AlphaStream, or comparable private markets / credit operations platforms.\nStrong PowerPoint Skills for polished presentation and project/status reporting\nStrong understanding of private debt instrument structures, lifecycle events, and data attributes required for accounting, valuation, performance, and compliance workflows.\nExperience coordinating across front office, legal, operations, accounting, and technology stakeholders in a fast-paced environment.\nPrior experience at an alternative asset manager is strongly preferred.\nStrong knowledge of private credit products, including term loans, revolvers, delayed draw facilities, unitranche structures, and privately placed notes.\nExcellent attention to detail and the ability to extract key terms from lengthy legal documents and translate them into accurate operational data points.\nSound judgment in identifying ambiguities in documentation and escalating issues appropriately for resolution.\nStrong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple live transactions, competing deadlines, and ongoing portfolio maintenance tasks.\nProven communication skills, including the ability to work effectively with investment professionals, legal counsel, fund accounting, compliance, and technology teams.\nAdvanced Excel skills; experience with data analysis, reconciliations, and process documentation.\nA hands-on, solutions-oriented mindset with the ability to improve workflows and strengthen controls in a growing private debt platform.\nHigh degree of accountability, professionalism, and comfort operating in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.\nReporting Relationships\nCompensation\nThe anticipated base salary range for this position is listed below. Total compensation may also include a discretionary performance-based bonus. Note, the range takes into account a broad spectrum of qualifications, including, but not limited to, years of relevant work experience, education, and other relevant qualifications specific to the role.\n$130,000 - $150,000\nThe firm also offers robust Benefits offerings. Ares U.S. Core Benefits include Comprehensive Medical/Rx, Dental and Vision plans; 401(k) program with company match; Flexible Savings Accounts (FSA); Healthcare Savings Accounts (HSA) with company contribution; Basic and Voluntary Life Insurance; Long-Term Disability (LTD) and Short-Term Disability (STD) insurance; Employee Assistance Program (EAP), and Commuter Benefits plan for parking and transit.\nAres offers a number of additional benefits including access to a world-class medical advisory team, a mental health app that includes coaching, therapy and psychiatry, a mindfulness and wellbeing app, financial wellness benefit that includes access to a financial advisor, new parent leave, reproductive and adoption assistance, emergency backup care, matching gift program, education sponsorship program, and much more.\nThere is no set deadline to apply for this job opportunity. 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