Fund Controller, Private Equity Secondaries

Overview Apollo is a high-growth, global alternative asset manager. In our asset management business, we seek to provide our clients excess return at every point along the risk-reward spectrum from investment grade to private equity with a focus on three investing strategies: yield, hybrid, and equity. For more than three decades, our investing expertise across our fully integrated platform has served the financial return needs of our clients and provided businesses with innovative capital solutions for growth. Through Athene, our retirement services business, we specialize in helping clients achieve financial security by providing a suite of retirement savings products and acting as a solutions provider to institutions. Our patient, creative, and knowledgeable approach to investing aligns our clients, businesses we invest in, our employees, and the communities we impact, to expand opportunity and achieve positive outcomes.   Come to Apollo and join a community of extraordinary people who are committed to a culture of excellence and collaboration in everything that we do. We invest in our people for the long term and are committed to supporting their development at every stage of their career. The Principal will join a team of professionals supporting Apollo’s growing Sponsor and Secondary Solutions business (“S3”), a market leading private markets secondaries business with $14bn + AUM and growing capital across drawdown funds, managed accounts, and evergreen/registered products. The Principal will collaborate closely with senior leaders across S3 and Apollo on all aspects of the role.   This individual will have a newly created senior role tasked with overseeing the further build out of the expanding S3 business line and implementation of the target operating model.  The role will include oversight of the accounting, operations and financial reporting of the strategy. The Principal will focus on building scalable infrastructure and processes to support continued growth, driving improvements and automation across operations and reporting, and partnering with stakeholders across the organization to solve complex business and operational challenges.   We are seeking an experienced, hands on professional who can effectively manage core responsibilities while also identifying opportunities to enhance how the platform operates and scales.

Manage the accounting, operations and financial reporting of products across the S3 strategy Help advance the strategy’s target operating model and build scalable infrastructure, processes and controls to support continued product and AUM growth Oversee data governance processes across various vendors, third party administrators, and portfolio monitoring systems Analyze and review budgets across multiple Fund entities Work across teams to improve modeling of liquidity and projections Assist in planning and infrastructure around new products within S3, including potential RFPs Oversee and manage client requests ad-hoc as well as during episodic fundraising campaigns Partner closely with internal stakeholders across Deal Team, Client Teams, Corporate, Operations, Marketing, Tax, Legal and Technology Provide oversight, coaching and review of junior team members Lead and execute ad hoc strategic and operational projects for senior leadership Qualifications & Experience CPA preferred; 13 to 15+ years of public and/or private accounting experience preferred Significant prior experience within the secondaries or fund of fund industry required, with a strong understanding of secondary fund structures, operations and reporting Strong U.S. GAAP technical accounting expertise Significant accounting, controlling and financial reporting experience, with the ability and desire to take ownership of financial responsibilities for one of Apollo’s highest growth asset classes Demonstrated experience improving operating models, building scalable processes and