Vice President - Investor Relations Product Specialist

Over the last 20 years, Ares’ success has been driven by our people and our culture. 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.

Job Description

Reporting relationships

Reports to: Managing Director (London), Senior Team Manager (Mumbai)

Primary functions & responsibilities

Commercial Results

• Serve as a trusted voice to the internal SRM & IR Team on materials, investor focus areas, and fund data

• Fully task manages the Mumbai IR team that involves coordinating the team to prepare deliverables in time to meet reporting cycle deadlines without delay

• Differentiate themselves as a critical member of the IR Mumbai team in carrying out more complex subject matter expert workstreams with little help and intervention from senior team members

• Recognize which inbound queries (internal and external) the Mumbai-based team can address and react accordingly

• Main point-of-contact for Associates and Analysts on IR Mumbai projects within a specific product

• Demonstrated ability to answer in-depth ad hoc investor inquiries independently

• Supports content creation using their product knowledge to craft effective marketing messages

• Continue to seek and implement efficiencies across management of tasks

Communication

• Intermediate presentation skills; trusted to present product-specific information to internal stakeholders across the Mumbai office

• Excellent written communicator demonstrated through quarterly reports, responses to clients and tailored product-specific updates (where applicable)

• Able to provide constructive feedback to Associates and Analysts to help improve their verbal and written communication skills

Team & Leadership

• Actively participates in hiring and developing junior resources to create a culture of engagement, motivation, and positivity.

• Informally lead/mentor junior team members in both day-to-day work and team projects; manages processes to deliver materials

• Help manage underperforming candidates to bring them in line with expectations for their grade

• Understands where to prioritize time for highest impact and redirects workstreams to most critical areas of focus and value

Personal Impact & Effectiveness

• Recognition of gaps in own skill-set, strong judgement and decision making, communicating with conviction, humility, process improvement mindset and handling ‘the grey’ areas

• Continued maturity that aligns with the firms growth, using a solutions orientated mindset, to overcome internal obstacles and limitations

• Raise awareness of their role and impact within the team, also across the local office, where there is not necessarily always an obvious path to create visibility of their impact

• Able to build relationships with global team members and across Investment teams within Mumbai as well as broader Management team within the region.

Qualifications

Education: MBA/ CA and bachelor’s degree in business, finance, or another pre-professional field, or a discipline with exposure to accounting or corporate finance.

Experience Required:  12+ years of relevant work experience. Investment banking / Asset Management firm / Alternative Investments / Credit or Private Equity Investor Relations.

General Requirements:

• Detail oriented

• Team management experience and coaching

• Strong modeling skills

• Experience with asset management systems or other relational databases

• Experience at a regional, national, or global financial services firm

• Self-starter, exceptional communication and organizational skills necessary

• Ability to work independently as well as with “the team”

• Excellent oral and written communication skills and computer literacy

• Knowledge of Microsoft Windows, Word, Excel, Outlook

Reporting Relationships

There 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.