About the Role
The team is seeking a Senior Associate in London to support the oversight and execution of ADI’s digital infrastructure investment and fund activities through financial analysis, evaluation of asset and fund performance, and hands-on involvement in reporting. This role plays a key part in maintaining models and projections, enhancing data and analytics infrastructure, and partnering across teams to deliver clear insights to internal stakeholders and investors.
Responsibilities
- Create and maintain fund financial models
- Lead the preparation of reporting materials for the Ares Digital Infrastructure Senior Leadership Team and external stakeholders
- Perform in-depth portfolio and asset financial analysis
- Conduct macroeconomic and market research
- Participate in the quarterly valuation process preparing supporting calculations and analysis
- Support fund budgeting process including capital projections for existing assets, equity raise forecasts, and deployment projections
- Work with finance, technology and investor relations teams to build and maintain data systems and dashboards
Requirements
- 3-5 years of commercial real estate (investment, asset management, valuation), investment banking, private equity, or consulting experience
- Proficiency with accounting fundamentals and financial analysis
- Fluent spoken and written communication in English
- Highly proficient in Microsoft Excel with strong technical skills and ability to build complex operating models
- Excellent research and due diligence skills with an aptitude for numeracy
- Exceptional interpersonal skills as well as being a team player
- Evidence of intellectual curiosity, creative problem-solving skills, and adaptability
- Solid organizational skills, high attention to detail and ability to prioritize
- Impeccable integrity and trustworthiness
Skills
- Microsoft Excel
- Financial analysis
- Data systems and dashboards
- Research
- Due diligence
- Numeracy
- Interpersonal skills
- Organizational skills
- Attention to detail
- Problem-solving
Location
- London
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior Associate
- 3-5 years
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree or international equivalent with excellent academic record
About the Company
- 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.
- Ares Digital Infrastructure (“ADI”) is part of Ares's Real Assets platform, created to invest in high-quality digital infrastructure assets to support the growth of the ever-expanding global demand for data, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence.
- Ares Digital Infrastructure has built a large portfolio of data center assets globally, recently completing its inaugural US$2.4 billion data center development fund in Japan.
- ADI is supported by Ada Infrastructure, its wholly-owned global data center operating platform.
- Ada Infrastructure provides development, leasing, asset management, facilities management, security, and other customer services to ADI’s data center asset portfolio.
