Senior Associate, Corporate Treasury

Ares Management · Mumbai

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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 Ares Corporate Treasury Department is responsible for capital planning, global cash and liquidity management, and foreign exchange risk mitigation across the organization’s multi-jurisdictional footprint. The department supports the business through several key functions spanning North America, EMEA, and Asia-Pacific, ensuring effective treasury operations across diverse regulatory, banking, and market environments, including:

• Balance Sheet Management: Developing strategies to leverage and monetize current and forecasted balance sheet assets across global entities and jurisdictions, while optimizing capital efficiency at both the corporate and regional levels.
• Capital Markets: Monitoring equity, debt, and loan capital markets to execute fundraising transactions that support anticipated capital requirements across multiple currencies and international markets.
• Liquidity and Cash Management: Forecasting and monitoring global cash needs, managing multi-currency liquidity structures, and facilitating cross-border transactions to support international entities and investment platforms.
• Foreign Exchange Risk Management: Identifying, evaluating, and executing derivative transactions to mitigate currency risks.

The Corporate Treasury Senior Associate will provide strategic support for the company’s global treasury team. This role is expected to participate in design, creation and maintenance of financial models and forecasts, the execution
of critical treasury activities and remain deeply involved in day-to-day cash, liquidity, and risk management across the organization. This role requires knowledge in treasury systems, experience operating in complex international environments, and a strategic mindset to drive global process standardization while accommodating regional requirements.
Primary functions and essential responsibilities:

• Perform cash management operations, including multi-currency cash pooling, intercompany funding structures, and short-term investment management across regions.
• Support treasury activities for fund groups, including Secondaries, Private Equity, and Co-investment.
• Support the management of credit facility activities, including forecasting facility requirements.
• Coordinate with regional finance teams across time zones to ensure optimal global cash positioning.
• Assist with the design, creation and implementation of liquidity and capital planning forecast models, including stress-testing functionalities.
• Collaborate with the Capital Solutions team to assess and monitor foreign exchange, interest rate, and counterparty risks.
• Drive initiatives for assessment and implementation of treasury workstations (e.g., Kyriba, FIS), including global system governance, regional workflow optimization, and integration with enterprise platforms.
• Drive enhancements and automation projects to improve visibility, efficiency, and accuracy in liquidity forecasting, cash management, payment processing, and reporting, including creation of PowerBi dashboards.
• Lead coordination for managing global cash positioning, banking relationships, and ensure compliance with internal controls and regulatory requirements.
• Participate to ensure compliance with internal controls, SOX requirements, and country-specific regulatory standards.
• Support global corporate treasury responsibilities, including rating agency relationships, financial commitments tracking, and other strategic transactions.
• Preparation, delivery, and presentation of global treasury reports to executive leadership.

Qualifications
Education:
• Bachelors Degree in Accounting, Economics or Finance

Experience Required:

• 6+ years of experience in global Treasury or investment management.
• Demonstrated track record in hands-on forecasting, creation and maintenance of financial models.
• Comprehensive knowledge of treasury operations, including banking and cash management/forecasting in both U.S. and international contexts.
• Demonstrated experience partnering with business units to drive operational efficiency and collaborative outcomes
• Proficiency with treasury tools and banking portals, including familiarity with various payment methods and flows (local and cross-border wires, ACH).
• Strong technical acumen for solving complex problems using enterprise tools (report writers, SQL, Excel, Tableau/PowerBI, or Anaplan).
• Experience in business operations.
• Proven ability to lead process improvement and automation initiatives.
• Exceptional relationship management skills with banks and both internal and external stakeholders.

General Requirements:

• Flexibility regarding role scope and willingness to take on new projects and acquire new skills.
• Outstanding written and verbal communication, presentation, documentation, and interpersonal skills; strong customer focus.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and competing demands; strong time management and prioritization skills.
• High degree of accuracy and attention to detail; confident decision-making abilities.
• Ability to extract and synthesize meaningful insights from extensive research and analysis, presenting findings in a clear and digestible format.
• Sound judgment in escalating issues versus resolving problems independently.
• Analytical mindset with a passion for process efficiency and innovation.
• Comfort with ambiguity and uncertainty in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
• Flexibility in working hours to coordinate with team members across various time zones.

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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.

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