Head of Fund 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.

The Head of Finance Technology is a senior leadership role within the Global Technology organization, responsible for defining, building, and leading a newly established Finance Technology function. This role owns the end‑to‑end technology strategy, delivery, and evolution of fund and investment finance and accounting solutions across the firm’s alternative investment platform. This individual will partner closely with senior Finance leadership, including business unit CFOs and investment finance executives, to ensure that finance technology capabilities enable accurate reporting, scalable growth, regulatory compliance, and timely decision‑making.

The role is accountable for setting the finance technology roadmap, translating complex business requirements into modern, resilient technology solutions, and ensuring alignment across business and technology leadership. The ideal candidate brings a rare blend of deep finance domain expertise and strong engineering capability, with hands‑on experience across asset‑management finance, fund accounting, and modern technology architecture. This leader will build and manage a global team of business analysts and product managers, while operating as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders and a hands‑on driver of transformation.

Reports to: Partner, Head of Operations, Finance & M&A Technology

Supervises: Global Finance Technology Team

• Establish and own the enterprise‑wide Finance Technology strategy and multi‑year roadmap for fund and investment finance and accounting, aligned with firm‑wide technology and business objectives.
• Serve as the senior technology counterpart to Finance leadership, including business unit CFOs, providing thought leadership, transparency, and clear articulation of trade‑offs and priorities.
• Partner with Technology and Finance leadership to frame, prioritize, and sequence initiatives that balance regulatory requirements, operational stability, and innovation.
• Own all technology solutions supporting fund and investment finance and accounting, across public and private credit, private equity, and other alternative asset classes.
• Provide deep domain leadership across fund accounting processes, including NAV calculation, capital activity, allocations, waterfalls, fee calculations, and financial reporting.
• Oversee platforms supporting fund accounting and investment finance, with strong familiarity with industry solutions such as Geneva (or comparable platforms).
• Partner closely with internal teams and external fund administrators to ensure seamless data exchange, clear ownership models, and strong operational controls.

• Establish strong product management and delivery practices, including prioritization, dependency management, and stakeholder communication.
• Own delivery outcomes across finance technology initiatives, ensuring predictable execution, quality, and alignment with business expectations.
• Drive the ongoing implementation and expansion of Anaplan for fund waterfall modeling and related financial use cases, ensuring scalability and alignment with Finance needs.
• Identify and drive opportunities to automate finance workflows, reduce manual processing, and improve the timeliness and accuracy of financial outputs.
• Assess and pilot emerging technologies, including AI‑enabled analytics, workflow automation, and agentic capabilities, to enhance finance operations and decision support.