Senior Associate/Vice President, CLO Product Specialist, AIS

Key Responsibilities: Monitor and manage daily cash activity across CLO vehicles, including interest collections, principal proceeds, fees, expenses, reinvestments, distributions, and other cash movements. Track cash inflows and outflows to ensure all activity is accurately reflected across internal systems, trustee reports, and bank accounts. Support the management of CLO liability and other structures, including accordion features, upsizing mechanics, drawdowns, and related investor or lender activity. Coordinate with trustees, collateral administrators, banks, arrangers, and internal investment teams to confirm accurate reporting and settlement of cash and liability activity. Reconcile trustee reports, payment dates, waterfall calculations, collateral balances, liability balances, and cash accounts against internal records. Support internal teams with ad hoc analysis related to CLO performance, liquidity, liability management, and deal-level reporting.

Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, economics, or a related field. 4 to 7 years of experience in structured finance, CLOs, leveraged loans, fund accounting, trustee operations, loan operations, or a related role. Strong understanding of CLO structures, cash waterfalls, liability tranches, trustee reporting, and collateral administration preferred. Excellent attention to detail and ability to reconcile complex financial data across multiple sources. Strong Excel skills and comfort working with large datasets, cash flow schedules, and transaction reports. Ability to communicate clearly with internal teams and external counterparties. Strong organizational skills and ability to manage deadlines around payment dates, reporting cycles, and transaction activity. Reporting RelationshipsManaging Director, Investments, AIS CompensationThe anticipated base salary range for this position is listed below. Total compensation may also include a discretionary performance-based bonus. Note, the range takes into account a broad spectrum of qualifications, including, but not limited to, years of relevant work experience, education, and other relevant qualifications specific to the role. Pay Transparency$180,000.00 - $200,000.00 The firm also offers robust Benefits offerings. Ares U.S. Core Benefits include 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), and Commuter Benefits plan for parking and transit. Ares offers a number of additional benefits including access to a world-class medical advisory team, a mental health app that includes coaching, therapy and psychiatry, a 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, and much more. Application WindowThere is no set deadline to apply for this job opportunity. Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis until the search is no longer active.