Associate Director – Technical Business Analyst

Position Overview

ABOUT APOLLO

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 credit to private 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. As of March 31, 2026, Apollo had approximately $785 billion of assets under management. To learn more, please visit www.apollo.com.

OUR PURPOSE AND CORE VALUES

Our clients rely on our investment acumen to help secure their future. We must never lose our focus and determination to be the best investors and most trusted partners on their behalf. We strive to be:

The leading provider of retirement income solutions to institutions, companies, and individuals.

The leading provider of capital solutions to companies. Our breadth and scale enable us to deliver capital for even the largest projects – and our small firm mindset ensures we will be a thoughtful and dedicated partner to these organizations. We are committed to helping them build stronger businesses.

A leading contributor to addressing some of the biggest issues facing the world today – such as energy transition, accelerating the adoption of new technologies, and social impact – where innovative approaches to investing can make a positive difference.

We are building a unique firm of extraordinary colleagues who:

Outperform expectations

Challenge Convention

Champion Opportunity

Lead responsibly

Drive collaboration

As One Apollo team, we believe that doing great work and having fun go hand in hand, and we are proud of what we can achieve together.

OUR BENEFITS

Apollo relies on its people to keep it a leader in alternative investment management, and the firm’s benefit programs are crafted to offer meaningful coverage for both you and your family. 

Apollo is searching for a hands-on business focused technologist to advance the technology capabilities of the Investment Accounting system. The individual will work closely with the Middle Office, Asset Servicing Operations users as well as key stakeholders in Fund Finance and other Technology teams in Investment Operations and Data Engineering to drive programs, projects, and small business enhancements around the Investment Accounting platform called VPM. The activities will involve Requirement gathering and analysis, development, Integration with downstream systems, testing, implementation, and ongoing support of related initiatives. This individual will be focused on a variety of projects across our post-trade and asset servicing platforms.

• →manage complex programs and projects through the design and implementation of strategic initiatives.
• →Serve as a SME on Apollo's internal Investment Accounting systems (VPM).
• →Work with middle office professionals to understand their process and needs and collaborate with other development teams to implement solutions and manage releases/deployments to UAT and prod.
• →Work with Apollo internal resources as well as application vendors to establish the appropriate development approach, budget and timelines.
• →Communicate effectively with stakeholders and build professional relationships on an ongoing basis.
• →Identify and resolve program blockers as needed to ensure timely and successful delivery of strategic enhancements and capabilities.
• →Partner with the business to ensure SLAs and other key metrics are met or exceeded. Analyze the support issues and come up with permanent solution to prevent its recurrence.
• →Identify best practices for optimizing efficiencies and system use both internally and externally. 
• →Partner with the business to ensure SLAs and other key metrics are met or exceeded. Analyze the support issues and come up with permanent solution to prevent its recurrence. 
• →Identify best practices for optimizing efficiencies and system use both internally and externally. 
  

• 8 to 12​ years industry full cycle experience of SDLC methodologies and approaches, including analysis and development and automated testing/ automated build and deployment of complex systems in finance domain.
• Deep understanding of domain – who is able to come up with initial build without waiting for the full specifications and who can refine the code in agile way, based on the changes suggested.
• Strong experience with Development methodology, understanding of design principles and understanding of AI tools to do the development.
• Excellent conceptualization, analytical, and logic skills enabling comprehension and development of complex technical and business issues, topics, and plans.
• Excellent communications skills, with the ability to work with business users as well as other members of the technical staff.
• Willingness to learn new technologies required to develop the ecosystem, ability to understand the domain and ability to contribute as a techno functional analyst.
• Knowledge of Investment accounting, batch jobs, database skills are essential.
• Knowledge of Investment Accounting tools like VPM, Geneva is definite plus.
• Must be self-directed and motivated while being a solid team player with a strong work ethic.
• Ability to thrive in a high-intensity and faced paced environment.

Apollo provides equal employment opportunities regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, race, color, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, veteran status, gender/sex or sexual orientation, or any other criterion or circumstance protected by applicable law, ordinance, or regulation. The above criteria are intended to be used as a guide only – candidates who do not meet all the above criteria may still be considered if they are deemed to have relevant experience/ equivalent levels of skill or knowledge to fulfil the requirements of the role. Any job offer will be conditional upon and subject to satisfactory reference and background screening checks, all necessary corporate and regulatory approvals or certifications as required from time to time, and entering into definitive contractual documentation satisfactory to Apollo.