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Associate- Blackline Admin

Apollo India Services LLP
Full-time
On-site
Mumbai Nesco IT Park Tower India

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 June 30, 2024, Apollo had approximately $696 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.

The firm and its affiliates comply with applicable discrimination and equal opportunities legislation in all of its jurisdictions and do not discriminate in employment or recruitment based on race, color, religion, gender, national origin, veteran status, disability, age, citizenship, marital or domestic/civil partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.

POSITION OVERVIEW:

The BlackLine System Administrator acts as a primary owner and global administrator for the Blackline reconciliation and close management tool, providing day to day support, governance and oversight of the application and ensure adherence to architectural design, data management, certification controls and risk management of the company’s balance sheet exposure. Additionally, the BlackLine System Administer will assist business users with identifying and implementing process improvements that produce quantifiable benefits.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:

  • Act as the global system administrator and subject matter expert for any issue relating to Blackline, as well as ensuring timely and accurate processing of all Blackline requests from global users.
  • Provide hands-on, ongoing cross functional end-user support to ensure that BlackLine is operating efficiently across the organization.
  • Coordinates and supports process changes due to ongoing business changes (onboarding transactions, fielding change requests from process owners)
  • Performs necessary administrative functions of the Account Reconciliation, Transaction Matching, Journal Entry and Task Management modules, including but not limited to account setup, match rule construction, metrics, journal entry management, task management, communications to users and leadership and other functionality configurations.
  • Training global users on Blackline functionality
  • Manages and enforces business policies related to reconciliations and works to ensure users complete reconciliations in a timely manner.
  • Utilize the close management and variance analysis tool set to monitor and predict issues or areas for concern.
  • Liaison with IT on user issues, application upgrades, system maintenance and projects as it relates to BlackLine and other integrations to/from the tool. Performing ongoing application maintenance; coordinate upgrade, development, testing and implementation of application enhancements with users and IT.
  • Testing BlackLine software to ensure newly implemented and existing functionality is working as intended.
  • Collaborate with internal and external business partners to identify inefficient processes and drive the implementation of solutions that deliver improved efficiencies and processes using technology as an enabler.
  • Work with business users to develop and track quantifiable metrics to drive process improvements.
  • Serve as a source of expert advice, influence change, frame information in a broader organizational context
  • Provide leadership guidance, make recommendations, and collaborate with business to ensure solutions meets the business needs
  • Stay abreast of new functionality becoming available and drive the deployment of feature releases

Qualifications & Experience

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Finance, or Information Technology, or equivalent professional experience
  • 5+ years of experience as a BlackLine, Trintech or Oracle ARCS system administrator
  • Working knowledge in Finance Systems, particularly around reconciliation tools like Blackline, Cadency or Oracle ARCS, BlackLine preferred (Account Reconciliation, Transaction Matching, Journal Entry, Task Management)
  • Possess a good understanding of Core Financials processes, accounting practices, and SOX compliance
  • Experience with multi basis of accounting (e.g., GAAP and STAT)
  • Experience gathering requirements, probing into problems, facilitating meetings, documenting specifications, and coordinating projects
  • Experience with process improvement projects and continuous improvement methodologies
  • Experience with Windows 10, MS Word, Excel, Access, Power Point, Business Objects, SmartView