Vice President, Finance Technology

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.

Finance Technology is building a dedicated team for the Financial Planning Platform. The Vice President, Fund Finance Technology owns the strategy, roadmap, prioritization, adoption, user experience, and business outcomes for the platform, which helps the organization look forward through forecasting, scenario modeling, strategic planning, performance insights, and decision support. The role works closely with Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A), Fund Accounting (FA), Finance leadership, investment teams and other relevant front-office stakeholders, the Corporate Strategy Group (CSG), Enterprise Technology, Enterprise Data Engineering, Reporting & BI, application teams, and delivery partners. CSG leads the broader program and project execution, while this role provides direction, platform ownership, user experience leadership, and long-term roadmap accountability. This is a hands-on role requiring direct engagement with users, planning data, models, formulas, calculations, assumptions, drivers, workflows, integrations, reporting, and platform configuration. The role requires frequent engagement with senior finance and business leaders and is expected to become a trusted partner in shaping how finance users plan, forecast, evaluate scenarios, and make strategic decisions. Success requires strong judgment, curiosity, credibility, and the ability to build trust with users and senior leadership.  REPORTING RELATIONSHIPS Reports to: Finance Technology leadership; aligned to the Financial Planning Platform capability  Supervises: None initially; provides leadership across internal teams and delivery partners  PRIMARY FUNCTIONS & RESPONSIBILITIES  Forward-looking planning, scenarios, and decision support  Own the platform roadmap supporting forecasting, budgeting, scenario modeling, strategic planning, workforce planning, performance management, and management decision support.  Partner with FP&A, Fund Accounting, Finance leadership, and investment teams and other relevant front-office stakeholders to understand business drivers, assumptions, investment activity, fund performance, capital deployment, growth opportunities, risks, and potential outcomes.  Improve the speed, quality, and transparency of forward-looking analysis and help users compare scenarios and understand the impact of changing assumptions.  Translate complex financial and operational questions into intuitive platform solutions, analytics, workflows, and decision-support experiences.  Strategy, roadmap, and outcomes  Own the platform vision, strategy, roadmap, investment priorities, and backlog.  Lead discovery and translate user and business needs into clear problems, intended outcomes, requirements, acceptance criteria, and prioritized work.  Make practical trade-offs across value, user impact, complexity, risk, dependencies, timing, and delivery capacity.  Operate effectively in ambiguous environments by defining problems, establishing priorities, and creating structure where formal processes may not yet exist.  Define success measures and use adoption, user feedback, business value, platform health, and delivery outcomes to guide decisions.  Create and present clear presentation materials covering product strategy, roadmaps, investment priorities, business cases, delivery progress, adoption, and outcomes.  Influence strategic priorities and investment