About the Role
Ares is seeking a Senior Associate to serve as a Business Analyst within Client Platforms, responsible for all client-facing systems including Sales, Marketing, Client Reporting, and Digital/Web platforms. This role involves gathering requirements, documenting business processes, and supporting the delivery of digital products and technology initiatives for the Institutional Investor Lifecycle.
Responsibilities
- Elicit and document business requirements, ensuring alignment to business outcomes and KPIs.
- Partner with business stakeholders to define, document, and improve end-to-end business process flows and operating models.
- Create user stories, process maps/flows, acceptance criteria, and supporting documentation.
- Analyze current-state and future-state processes, recommending improvements for efficiency and scalability.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to translate business needs into Salesforce and other client platform requirements.
- Assist with backlog refinement and sprint planning.
- Support testing, UAT coordination, and defect triage.
- Assist with project documentation and meeting materials.
- Track action items and ensure follow-up with stakeholders.
- Develop subject matter expertise across client platforms, including Salesforce and investor lifecycle processes.
Requirements
- 1-3 years of business analysis, consulting, or technology experience.
- Strong analytical, communication, process mapping, and documentation skills.
- Experience facilitating requirements gathering sessions and working directly with business stakeholders to define business processes and workflows.
- Experience working with Salesforce, including supporting Salesforce-based business processes, requirements gathering, workflow documentation, and platform enhancements.
- Familiarity with Agile delivery methodologies and project management best practices.
- Comfortable presenting to business and technology leaders.
- Exposure to asset management, financial services, or capital markets preferred.
- Experience with Jira and Confluence preferred.
- Experience supporting client onboarding, investor lifecycle, CRM, or client servicing processes is a plus.
Skills
- Salesforce
- Business Analysis
- Process Mapping
- Documentation
- Agile Methodologies
- Jira
- Confluence
Location
- Remote
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior Associate
- 1-3 years
Salary/Compensations
- $145,000 - $150,000
Benefits
- Comprehensive Medical/Rx, Dental and Vision plans
- 401(k) program with company match
- Flexible Savings Accounts (FSA)
- Healthcare Savings Accounts (HSA) with company contribution
- Basic and Voluntary Life Insurance
- Long-Term Disability (LTD) and Short-Term Disability (STD) insurance
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Commuter Benefits plan for parking and transit
- Access to a world-class medical advisory team
- Mental health app that includes coaching, therapy and psychiatry
- Mindfulness and wellbeing app
- Financial wellness benefit that includes access to a financial advisor
- New parent leave
- Reproductive and adoption assistance
- Emergency backup care
- Matching gift program
- Education sponsorship program
About the Company
- Over the last 20 years, Ares’ success has been driven by our people and our culture.
- 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.
