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 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 enableaccuratereporting, scalable growth, regulatory compliance, andtimelydecision-making. The role is accountable forsettingthe 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 domainexpertiseand 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, whileoperatingas a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders and a hands-on driver of transformation.
Reporting relationships
Reports to:Partner,Head of Operations, Finance & M&A Technology
Supervises:GlobalFinanceTechnologyTeam
PRIMARY FUNCTIONS & ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES:
Finance & Fund Accounting Technology Ownership
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.
Delivery & Roadmap Execution
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.
Assess and pilot emerging technologies, including AI-enabled analytics, workflow automation, and agentic capabilities, to enhance finance operations and decision support.
Engineering, Architecture & Integration Leadership
Provide hands-on technical leadership, drawing on prior software engineering experience to guide architecture, design patterns, and implementation approaches.
Ensure finance technology solutionsleveragemodern architectures and frameworks, including API-driven integration, event-based patterns, and cloud-native services whereappropriate.
Partner with Enterprise Architecture, Data, Infrastructure, and Security teams to ensure solutions meet standards for performance, resiliency, security, and compliance.
Stakeholder Engagement &Communication
Act as a trusted advisor to senior Finance leaders, investment teams, and Technology peers, with the ability to clearly communicate complex technical and financial concepts.
Team Leadership & Capability Building
Build, lead, and mentor a high-performing global Finance Technology organization with clear roles, accountability, and career paths.
Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Finance, ora related field.
Strong understanding of fund accounting concepts, fund structures, investor accounting, and investment lifecycle processes across private equity, credit (public and private), and similar asset classes.
Experience designing, implementing, or supporting fund waterfall calculations and allocation models, including carried interest, management fees, and complex distribution scenarios; experience with Anaplan for fund waterfall or financial modeling use cases is a strong plus.
Proven experience building and leading global teams of product managers andengineers, including people management, hiring, performance development, and organizational scaling.
Strong engineering background, including hands-on coding and development experience, with a solid grasp of modern application architecture, integration frameworks, and API-based connectivity.
Demonstrated experienceleveragingautomation technologies and evaluating AI-enabled or agentic capabilities to streamline financial workflows, improve data quality, and enhance finance operations within a controlled, regulated environment.
Reporting Relationships
Head of Investment 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.
$225,000 - $250,000
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.
