Senior Associate, Operational Strategy

Requirements

• Education:
• Bachelor's degree in a business, finance, or related discipline
• Experience Required:
• 5-7 years of experience in financial services, asset management, management consulting, business operations, transformation, project management, business analysis, process improvement, or technology-enabled change.
• Experience supporting complex, cross-functional projects involving business, Technology, Operations, Legal, Compliance, Finance, Investor Relations / Sales and Marketing, and/or external vendors.
• Strong project management skills, including

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Additional Information

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 Ares is seeking a high-performing Senior Associate who supports the Executive Office transformation agenda by managing the details of complex cross-functional programs - workplans, milestones, dependencies, governance materials, stakeholder coordination, business process documentation, and change readiness - while building fluency across alternative investment lifecycles, technology-enabled transformation, and enterprise operating model change. The Operational Strategy Group supports the Executive Office and serves as the enterprise control tower and nerve center for the firm's highest-priority transformations bringing together strategy, execution oversight, assurance, and cross-functional delivery to ensure these initiatives move in a coordinated, disciplined, and value-focused way. The team manages complexity across the targeted transformation portfolio, keeps priority programs on track, surface dependencies and risks early, and drive clear decision-making at the executive level. Positioned close to the Executive Office, the team executes enterprise programs across all Ares' lines of business (Credit, Private Equity, Real Assets, and Secondaries) as well as technology, legal, compliance, finance, Sales/Marketing and other functional groups, ensuring that the firm's most operationally critical initiatives are aligned to enterprise priorities, sequenced effectively, and delivering measurable value. Reporting relationships Managing Director, Corporate Strategy - Operational Strategy Group Serve as an internal consulting and execution partner to business leaders, corporate functions, and third-party providers. Translate high-level objectives into structured workplans, timelines, milestones, and deliverables. Coordinate transformation initiatives by tracking scope, status, risks, dependencies, decisions, and stakeholder alignment. Support business case development, including current-state challenges, future-state vision, benefits, risks, implementation approach, and decision points. Synthesize complex information into clear recommendations for process, operating model, system, or organizational changes. Partner with business and functional teams to document future-state operating models, including roles, governance, process ownership, controls, and technology enablement. Prepare executive-ready materials for senior leaders, steering committees, process owners, and cross-functional stakeholders. Support change adoption through stakeholder engagement, communications, training, readiness planning, and post-implementation tracking. Manage detailed project execution across workstreams, including milestones, ownership, timelines, dependencies, escalation paths, and delivery risks. Identify upstream and downstream impacts across processes, systems, teams, and operating models to support effective planning and implementation. Identify opportunities to improve cross-team workflows and handoffs across functions, simplifying processes, strengthening controls, enhancing system connectivity, and improving operational scalability. Support implementation of new products, platforms, processes, and operating model changes in partnership with business, Technology, and functional teams. Help translate business objectives and operational requirements into clear deliverables for Technology teams, while communicating technical considerations back to business stakeholders. Provide hands-on project management support across transformation initiatives, including roadmap development, governance setup, ROI and benefits tracking, requirements documentation, process mapping, UAT, readiness, training, and status reporting. Maintain disciplined program governance, including RAID logs, milestone trackers, decision logs, executive escalation materials, and benefits realization tracking.

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