APPS 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 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.

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. Please reach out to your Human Capital Business Partner for more detailed information on specific benefits.

POSITION OVERVIEW:

Team Overview

Apollo is looking to add an individual with expertise in website development and knowledge management to its Apollo Portfolio Performance Solutions (APPS) team. APPS is Apollo’s in-house team of operating partners and functional experts that support Apollo’s investments. The APPS team is within Apollo Private Equity and works in close collaboration with investment professionals across the firm. This individual will support the operations of the APPS team and contribute to Apollo realizing exceptional returns by leveraging operational insights across all its investments.

The role

The opportunity is for an open position in the Apollo Portfolio Performance Solutions (APPS) Team within the Private Equity organization at Apollo. This role is to support the development and maintenance of the Portfolio Portal, an interactive set of web-based portal of microsites that are accessed by portfolio company executives. Launched in 2020, Apollo uses the Portfolio Portal to engage with and share information with executives for its portfolio companies, such as information about events and conferences available to the executives, case studies for value creation, and preferred third party vendors that the portfolio companies can use to access preferred pricing or Apollo relationship benefits. The APPS Portfolio Portal Analyst will report to Erin Larkins, the APPS Analyst who oversees the portal and will support development and maintenance activities. These activities include working closely with the 3rd party technical team to track the development roadmap and execution of the backlog, identifying UX and tehnical issues, and tracking users to add and remove access.

Your responsibilities will include:

Providing maintenance support for the Portfolio Portal by:

Identifying and logging issues/area for improvement within current site, tracking issues to resolution

Maintain development pipeline for build-out of site & manage build-out with technical team of IBM coders.

Interfacing between the internal Apollo stakeholders and the technical team to clarify requirements.

Tracking and manage content plan for the site and maintain content archives.

Tracking and reporting user activity on site, including monitoring user logs and quarterly auditing to identify new users and remove inactive portcos/users.

Oversee user profiles and Okta provisioning for user access.

Supporting tracking and execution for mass communication to users

Maintaining a database of portfolio investments and executives at portfolio companies that should be granted access (and what type / level of access)

Eventually, supporting content development for the content that is posted on the portfolio portal (e.g., editing of case studies or articles, graphics support, and synthesizing existing content for use on the site)

Building and maintaining archived folders for content including case studies, thought leadership, imagery and branding materials.

Qualifications & Experience

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE: (Academic, Professional, Experience)

Education and prior experience

Education : Bachelor’s degree

Experience : Minimum of 3-5 years of relevant experience in website maintenance / development with a focus on user experience and/or site management

Technical proficiency

Basic knowledge of Salesforce platform (coding experience is a plus, but not required since is not part of the day-to-day requirement of the role)

Familiarity with tech development ticketing systems (i.e., Jira, ADO)

Basic Excel proficiency

Content development

Strong business writing skills to eventually support content development for site.

Basic understanding of visual design and user experience skills

Strong attention to detail

Communication

Strong written and verbal communication skills required, as will be serving as a key role this Analyst is playing is as an interface between stakeholders (deal teams, 3rd party vendors) and technical team to summarize and synthesize technical and UX requirements.

Proficiency in generating meaningful reports and dashboards that communicate progress.

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. 

Apollo Global Management, Inc. (together with its subsidiaries and affiliates) is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. The firm and its affiliates do not discriminate in employment because of race, color, religion, gender, national origin, veteran status, disability, age, citizenship, marital or domestic/civil partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression or because of any other criteria prohibited under controlling federal, state, or local law.