Fund Controller - Mumbai, India - Ares Management

Ares Management

Verified Company

Mumbai, India

2 weeks ago

Posted by:

Deepika Kaur

beBee Recuiter

Description

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.

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Job Description:

Lead and supervise a small team focused on Fund Accounting & Financial Reporting supporting Ares' Direct Lending businesses.
Actively work on continuous improvement focusing on creating operational efficiency and better controls.
Provide overall direction to fund accounting team to assure synchronized teamwork that accomplishes monthly, quarterly and annual financial and operational goals & objectives.
Ensure process and procedures are adequate to meet quality standards and are consistently applied and regularly reviewed.
Work with and liaise with teams across the organization, including communications with portfolio managers, investor relations, operations, tax and financial reporting along with external fund administrators and external auditors to meet all monthly, quarterly and annual reporting deadlines.
Work with the tax team to administer timely and thorough payment of tax estimates and liabilities for all legal entities that require special handling.
Manage monthly and quarterly close processes, including review work of accounting staff, along with producing original workpapers and analyses.
Review of quarterly and annual GAAP/IFRS/LUX (SARL) financial statements and footnote disclosures for multiple funds as well as capital account summaries for limited partners.
Review calculation of management fees, incentive fee/carry, PCAPS & complex waterfall calculations.
Review calculation of IRR, Capital calls /Collateral calls, Distribution calculation/Notices, Credit facility management, Tax / VAT Returns & FX Hedging.
Review cash flow projections and 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 adhoc limited partner reporting, analyst and frontoffice requests.
Assist with preparation of information provided to tax team for quarterly tax estimates and annual returns.
Review and approval of expense activity and authorization of bank wires.
Review regulatory compliance filings (e.g. Form ADV, AIFMD filing, BE11S Reporting, Form PF, SLT, etc.)

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