Senior Associate

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.

Job Description

The Senior Associate – Financial Systems will be an integral part of our Yardi Team and responsible for the day-to-day operation of Yardi. The ideal candidate will be enthusiastic, detail-oriented, comfortable with a team-oriented, high-volume environment, able to multi-task, and able to think critically to build and maintain the Real Estate Yardi stacks included in the Voyager and Elevate suites.

Essential Duties:

• Implement and maintain Yardi modules in Voyager and Elevate including developing standards, policies, procedures, and manuals to support training and operational processes.
• Work closely with accounting, asset management and leasing teams to problem solve complicated business processes and tracking of data based on end user and organizational requirements.
• Assist in solving day-to-day challenges with data and reporting including complex financial transactions; often building and testing update SQL queries.
• Design and build YSR reports to meet organizational needs.
• Create and maintain custom tables, buttons, and fields for various object types.
• Work with leasing teams as level 2 support for complex lease and recovery setups across industrial, retail, and office asset types.
• Maintain account trees, charts of accounts and segments.
• Monitor or build automated Yardi tasks and notifications to address various groups’ needs.
• Assist in developing integrations between Yardi source data and Ares management company.
• Remain up to date on Yardi enhancements and plug-ins and rolling out new functionality as needed.
• Build and maintain custom menus and permissions across several different security groups.

Required Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

• This position requires a bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Computer Science or Information Technology or equivalent.
• 5+ years of relevant Yardi experience in any of the areas: Voyager, ABF, Construction Manager, Facility Manager Commercial Café, Vendor Café and Vendor Shield, Forecast Manager, International, Pulse, and Multi-Family suites.
• Intermediate or greater SQL experience.
• Ability to build functions or procedures within SQL a plus.
• Experience in Avid, Argus or Jira a plus
• A motivated, detail-oriented individual with strong analytical and communication skills is required.
• The ability to multi-task in a highly dynamic environment and meet challenging deadlines is critical.
• Requires the ability to self-manage, independently exercise professional and technical judgement, problem solve and take initiative.
• An aptitude for Microsoft Office applications, including strong Excel skills required.

Reporting Relationships

Vice President, Financial Systems

Compensation

The 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.

$90,000 - $110,000

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.

There 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.