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 to private equity with a focus on three investing strategies: yield, hybrid, and 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. To learn more, please visit www.apollo.com.

The role is to function as the business development analyst for the Apollo Public Funds (APF), which involves understanding/monitoring APF’s financial position while providing forecasting and modeling of current & future activities. The candidate should have a strong financial background and be able to synthesize/compare APF with its competitors.

Primary Responsibilities

The candidate will provide analytical and project support for APF’s non-investment team activities, including strategic and transaction modeling, business development support, capital market comparisons, portfolio monitoring and analysis, investor relation’s support.

The Candidate Will Be Expected To Provide General Business Support To APF’s Functional Areas, Primarily Outside Of The Investment Team

• Strategic Modeling: candidate will be responsible for maintaining APF’s forecasting model while incorporating strategic options.
• Business Development: research and develop work product for discrete projects across the platform, analyze new business opportunities, market competitors and provide general support for the business development function as needed.
• Capital Markets: perform capital structure relative value analysis and tracking, track capital markets activity across APF’s portfolio and support the capital markets function as needed.
• Portfolio Monitoring: provide support for APF’s weekly/monthly & quarterly portfolio monitoring process and ongoing analytics to track portfolio construction and performance.
• Support the IR function.

Qualifications & Experience

• Ideal candidates will have a bachelor’s degree from a top undergraduate institution
• Prior experience in an equity research or credit research role strongly preferred
• The individual should have experience in the financial markets, investing and a strong background in finance and/or accounting as well as a basic understanding of the capital markets and a familiarity with leveraged finance. Strong analytical and technical aptitude
• The candidate must demonstrate strong analytical and writing skills
• The candidate should have approximately 2-4 years of experience in the financial services industry
• Team player with strong work ethic