Job Abstract

Our Company

Oaktree is a leader among global investment managers specializing in alternative investments, with $189 billion in assets under management as of December 31, 2023. The firm emphasizes an opportunistic, value-oriented, and risk-controlled approach to investments in credit, private equity, real assets, and listed equities. The firm has over 1200 employees and offices in 22 cities worldwide.

We are committed to cultivating an environment that is collaborative, curious, inclusive and honors diversity of thought. Providing training and career development opportunities and emphasizing strong support for our local communities through philanthropic initiatives are essential to our culture.

For additional information please visit our website at www.oaktreecapital.com

Responsibilities

Oaktree’s Closed-End Portfolio Analytics and Reporting (CE-PAR) team is seeking an individual to join our team to support our Closed-End strategies generally and Real Estate strategies in particular, out of our Los Angeles office. We are looking for a hardworking individual with a passion for alternative investments as well as data and analytics technologies. This individual will support the Strategy Leads for our Real Estate strategies to partner with the Investment Team, Product Management, and Accounting to produce portfolio management reports, prepare client reports and prospect materials accurately, consistently and on time, by leveraging current technology solutions for scale.

Responsibilities include:

• Successfully deliver analyses, dashboards and reports to the Investment Teams, prospects, consultants and clients related to the positions invested by these strategies;
• Develop into a subject matter expert on the strategies and resource to the Investment Team, Product Specialists, Marketing Representatives and Client Services;
• Evolve our reporting suite in response to, and in anticipation of, new strategies, client and industry demands and in collaboration with other team members for other strategies;
• Master system technology to learn to source data and create new data extracts (leveraging Python, SQL and Power BI). Review financial data for various Oaktree portfolios and produce analytics and reporting for presentations and publications;
• Understand the full suite of work CE-PAR is responsible for within Oaktree.

Qualifications

• 1 to 2 years of experience working at an Asset Management company, Investment Bank or other related financial services company (including financial services technology vendors) in a risk management, portfolio operations and analysis capacity.
• Strong technical/ programming skills, including intermediate Python, SQL, some familiarity with databases, visualization tools.
• Knowledge of relevant reporting outputs and metrics including portfolio accounting, performance reporting, risk metrics and portfolio characteristics.
• Experience analyzing financial data and metrics with sufficient familiarity to recognize potential issues.
• Experience managing and manipulating large amounts of data.
• Familiarity with cloud-based technologies and AWS a plus.
• Familiarity with alternative investments and/or closed-end portfolios is preferred.
• Familiarity with different portfolio aggregation perspectives: Region/Country breakdown, property breakdown, maturity distributions, credit quality ratings.

Personal Attributes

• Outstanding initiative and a strong work ethic.
• Ability to operate independently on short- and long-term goals.
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to leverage firm wide resources in an effective and judicious manner.
• Detail-oriented and a natural problem solver; have the resolve to independently research problems and offer solutions.
• Organized and able to manage multiple projects with differing priorities to meet deadlines. 
• Team-oriented as well as strong integrity and professionalism.
• Must be team-oriented and possess integrity and professionalism and share Oaktree’s common goal of excellence.
• Passion for improving systems and processes.

Education

Bachelor’s degree required.

Base Salary Range

$75,000 - $90,000

In addition to a competitive base salary, you will be eligible to receive discretionary bonus incentives, a comprehensive benefits package and a flexible work arrangement.  The base salary offered will be commensurate with experience and/or qualifications, industry knowledge and expertise, as well as prior training and education.

Equal Opportunity Employment Policy

Oaktree is committed to diversity and to equal opportunity employment. Oaktree does not make employment decisions on the basis of race, creed, color, ethnicity, national origin, citizenship, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, past or present physical or mental disability, HIV status, medical condition as defined by state law (genetic characteristics or cancer), pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions, veteran status, military service, marital status, familial status, genetic information, domestic violence victim status or any other classification protected by applicable federal, state and local laws and ordinances. This policy applies to hiring, placement, internal promotions, training, opportunities for advancement, recruitment advertising, transfers, demotions, layoffs, terminations, recruitment advertising, rates of pay and other forms of compensation and all other terms, conditions and privileges of employment. This policy applies to all Oaktree applicants, employees, clients, and contractors. Staff members wishing to report violations or suspected violations of this policy should contact the head of their department or Human Resources.