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About:
Apollo is a high-growth, global alternative asset manager. In their asset management business, they seek to provide their 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, their investing expertise across their fully integrated platform has served the financial return needs of their clients and provided businesses with innovative capital solutions for growth. Through Athene, their retirement services business, they specialize in helping clients achieve financial security by providing a suite of retirement savings products and acting as a solutions provider to institutions. Their patient, creative, and knowledgeable approach to investing aligns their clients, businesses they invest in, their employees, and the communities they impact, to expand opportunity and achieve positive outcomes.
Role:
Associate, Legal & Compliance Technology
Qualifications:
- 2-3 years of L&C Technology expertise delivering on L&C solutions with experience supporting L&C teams on a variant of complex initiatives.
- 2-3 years industry full cycle experience of SDLC methodologies and approaches, including refining business requirements and defining functional specifications
- Experience with relevant L&C technology platforms, including Communications Surveillance (e.g. Global Relay), Trade Surveillance, Entity Management (e.g. Bridgeway), KYC/AML (e.g. MaxComply IQ-EQ)
- Experience working in or providing consulting services to a global, highly-regulated Financial Services firm
- Able to succeed within a highly demanding, fast paced and Technology service-critical environment.
- Proven success working with business stakeholders building consensus and negotiating priorities.
- Confirmed experience and business acumen to partner with business stakeholders to examine and re-engineer procedures and developing and implementing new strategies and procedures.
- Excellent teamwork and interpersonal skills.
- Experience participating in complex projects including multiple parties both internal and external
Professional Qualities
Leadership
- Lives one Apollo culture and values; Leverages every opportunity to raise the brand of Technology
- Demonstrates full ownership and accountability for work product and initiatives
- Establishes and drives priorities by balancing client needs with broader team/Technology goals
- Operates independently on key deliverables; collaborates with team on cross-functional projects
Responsibilities:
- Execute on Legal & Compliance technology strategy through defining scope of projects, completing requirements gathering, overseeing design and user acceptance testing (UAT), and supporting user system adoption.
- Provide technical expertise to members of the L&C team and champions the adoption of best practices. Analyzes, troubleshoots, and takes ownership of high priority system and user issues, coordinating issue resolution efforts across technical support teams and vendors; keeps management aware of high priority issues that impact the business and can clearly articulate business impact.
- Ensure alignment with key Control frameworks, including logical security access management and SDLC standards.
- Assist in vendor management and coordinate with internal stakeholders to enable timely decisions and deliver projects on schedule and within budget.
- Identify risks, plan for unanticipated outcomes, form appropriate contingency plans and system compliance.
- Develop and distribute functional and technical solutions before they are implemented.
- Assess ongoing and future target operating model requirements and operational needs of the business areas, including integration with other Apollo/Non-Apollo systems, reporting, and workflow enhancements.
- Effectively communicates relevant project information to all levels within the organization.
- Oversee key release management tasks and keep systems up to date with the evolving tech industry for L&C products.
- Build and maintain process documentation to ensure knowledge transfer across systems for users and tracking of configuration updates.
- Performs other related duties of a comparable level/type as required.
Relationship Management and Teamwork
- As a trusted technology partner, establishes and maintains constructive relationships with key stakeholders, demonstrating a thorough understanding of business process and priorities for main stakeholders and enabling open communication channels with business partners
- Maintains key vendor relationships ensuring expected deliverables and services are being met; tracks vendor spend to budget
- Encourages teamwork and cross department collaboration. Willing to jump in and provide expertise or assistance
- Helps L&C think ‘beyond their walls’ for impact on L&C system changes to other colleagues around Apollo
Continuous Improvement
- Suggests areas for improvement in internal processes along with possible solutions
- Identifies and recommends proactive prevention solutions and opportunities for continual improvements
- Where needed, participates internal teams/task forces
How to Apply:
Interested candidates can Apply here (click here)
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