About the Role
The Strategic Finance team is seeking an Associate Director to support coverage of the Principal Investing segment. This role involves financial modeling, budgeting, forecasting, and strategic financial analyses, offering a unique perspective on Apollo's ecosystem.
Responsibilities
- Maintain detailed and flexible financial models of Principal Investment Income (PII) P&L.
- Model new strategic initiatives.
- Liaise with various teams (Financial Reporting, Treasury, Human Capital, Business Management, Investment) to source and analyze data for the Firm’s budget, long-term plan, and monthly forecast process.
- Support Senior Management decision-making.
- Work through ad hoc projects and scenario analyses based on macroeconomic environment and market conditions.
- Support Human Capital in compensation decisions and structuring.
- Become an AI thought leader for the team to transform PII analysis.
- Model and analyze complex and strategic initiatives to support Apollo CFO and key stakeholders.
- Act as key point person on strategic projects (e.g., new fund profitability, tax analyses, fund acquisitions, M&A impacts, complex transactions).
- Enhance financial models to capture business drivers and understand key trends, risks, and opportunities.
Requirements
- 5+ years of financial analysis experience, ideally in Investment Banking or Asset Management, in core CFO or FP&A functions, Big-4 valuation or advisory services.
- Strong analytical thinking and financial reasoning capabilities with ability to think creatively.
- Excellent Excel-based modeling skills are required.
- Experience with data analytics as well as AI would be a plus.
- Passion for constant learning and developing an understanding beyond the pure mechanics of forecasting.
- Strong appetite to always understand the “Bigger picture” including market dynamics and to question outcomes.
- Exceptional (PowerPoint) presentation skills required.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills.
- Heightened attention to detail and organizational skills.
- Flexible and comfortable working in a fast-paced, highly demanding, rapidly changing environment.
- Operates with high energy, a “can do” attitude, and can run with projects independently.
Skills
- Financial modeling
- Budgeting
- Forecasting
- Strategic financial analysis
- Data analysis
- AI
- Excel
- PowerPoint
- Communication
- Presentation
Experience Level
- 5+ years
Salary/Compensations
- $140,000 – $205,000
Benefits
- Meaningful coverage for you and your family.
About the Company
- Apollo is a high-growth, global alternative asset manager seeking to provide clients excess return across the risk-reward spectrum through yield, hybrid, and equity strategies.
- For over three decades, Apollo's expertise has served client financial return needs and provided businesses with innovative capital solutions.
- Through Athene, Apollo specializes in helping clients achieve financial security with retirement savings products and acts as a solutions provider to institutions.
- Apollo's patient, creative, and knowledgeable approach aligns clients, businesses, employees, and communities to expand opportunity and achieve positive outcomes.
- Apollo is building a unique firm of extraordinary colleagues who outperform expectations, challenge convention, champion opportunity, lead responsibly, and drive collaboration.
- Apollo believes that doing great work and having fun go hand in hand.
Equal Opportunity
- Apollo Global Management Inc. is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.
- The firm and its affiliates do not discriminate in employment because of race, color, religion, gender, national origin, veteran status, disability, age, citizenship, marital or domestic/civil partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression or because of any other criteria prohibited under controlling federal, state or local law.
- The firm and its affiliates comply with applicable discrimination and equal opportunities legislation in all of its jurisdictions and do not discriminate in employment or recruitment based on race, color, religion, gender, national origin, veteran status, disability, age, citizenship, marital or domestic/civil partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.
