Product Control Associate - Apollo Asset Backed Finance Strategies

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Position Overview Apollo is a high-growth, global alternative asset manager. In our asset management business, we seek to provide our clients excess return at every point along the risk-reward spectrum from investment grade to private equity with a focus on three investing strategies: yield, hybrid, and equity. For more than three decades, our investing expertise across our fully integrated platform has served the financial return needs of our clients and provided businesses with innovative capital solutions for growth. Through Athene, our retirement services business, we specialize in helping clients achieve financial security by providing a suite of retirement savings products and acting as a solutions provider to institutions. Our patient, creative, and knowledgeable approach to investing aligns our clients, businesses we invest in, our employees, and the communities we impact, to expand opportunity and achieve positive outcomes. Come to Apollo and join a community of extraordinary people who are committed to a culture of excellence and collaboration in everything that we do. We invest in our people for the long term and are committed to supporting their development at every stage of their career. Primary Responsibilities Daily P&L & NAV Produce and publish daily P&L explain to PMs and traders - interest accrual, OID, PIK, unrealized mark changes, realized G/L, FX, Carry and fee drag. Draft concise, senior-stakeholder-ready P&L commentary independently - articulate drivers clearly across market, credit, and structural factors. Daily NAV review with administrators: reconcile administrator-produced daily NAV estimates to front-office system records and internal P&L - identify and resolve price, accrual, and position-level breaks on a same-day basis before NAV publication - compared to prior day and escalate material moves to fund controllers. Challenge stale or model-driven marks with Pricing teams and Admins. Investigate and resolve daily P&L breaks vs. front-office estimates; escalate exceptions to senior stakeholders. Fund operations & controls Support month-end capital account reconciliations and escalate breaks to fund controllers for sign-off. Review management fee accruals against administrator calculations; flag discrepancies to fund controllers for incentive allocation and hurdle rate queries. Serve as the PC point of contact for Ops, Risk, Finance, and Front Office on P&L events and new deal onboarding; own onshore accountability for outputs produced with offshore team support. Maintain control documentation for price overrides and P&L adjustments, flag valuation exceptions to fund controllers. Restructuring events: leading same-day P&L review and post-mortem for credit restructuring events - identify operational issues, produce event summary for senior stakeholders, and maintain a playbook for recurring event types. Template building & AI automation Template build & fund expansion: Design the P&L Explain template from the ground up - attribution structure, input/output architecture, commentary framework - and lead rollout to new funds, coordinating with Front Office, Operations, and IT on data sourcing and sign-off workflows. Automation & AI: proactively automate PC processes using AI tools, Excel, and data automation tools (e.g. Python, Power Query) - covering data ingestion, reconciliation, commentary generation, and reporting - reducing manual effort and scaling coverage across funds. Qualifications & Experience 3-5 years in product control, fund control, or financial reporting at an asset manager, bank, or fund administrator. Experience with credit instruments across private credit, structured credit, or broadly syndicated markets - e.g. loans, bonds, ABS, CLOs, or similar. Proven ability to draft clear, concise P&L commentary for PM and senior stakeholder audiences. Comfortable managing multiple funds and workstreams simultaneously under daily publishing deadlines. Experience working with or managing offshore teams - ability to review, challenge, and take onshore ownership of offshore-produced outputs. Exposure to daily NAV or willingness to build toward it in a fund transitioning from periodic to daily cadence. Strong Excel; familiarity with data automation tools a meaningful plus. CPA, CFA, or CAIA in progress or completed preferred. OUR PURPOSE AND CORE VALUES Our clients rely on our investment acumen to help secure their future. We must never lose our focus and determination to be the best investors and most trusted partners on their behalf. We strive to be: The leading provider of retirement income solutions to institutions, companies, and individuals. The leading provider of capital solutions to companies. Our breadth and scale enable us to deliver capital for even the largest projects - and our small firm mindset ensures we will be a thoughtful and dedicated partner to these organizations. We are committed to helping them build stronger businesses. A leading