Chief Operating Officer (COO) – Internal Audit, SOX & Third-Party Assurance

Position Overview

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.

Come to Apollo and join a community of extraordinary people who are committed to a culture of excellence and collaboration in everything that we do. We invest in our people for the long term and are committed to supporting their development at every stage of their career.

The Internal Audit, SOX, and Third-Party Assurance function has successfully delivered its first three-year strategic plan, establishing strong foundations across governance, risk coverage, controls, and execution. As Apollo continues to grow across regions, products, and new business activities, the function is now focused on defining its next three-year horizon.

The COO will support the Chief Audit Executive (CAE) and assurance leadership in refreshing strategy, strengthening enterprise alignment, and ensuring the function delivers forward-looking, actionable insight that keeps pace with a dynamic global business. This role requires deep risk and controls expertise, strong operational leadership, and high emotional intelligence. Success is measured by the ability to elevate the organization—creating clarity, alignment, and momentum while enabling teams to operate as One Team, One Voice.

Primary Responsibilities & Key Deliverables

Strategy & Operating Model

• Partner with Internal Audit, SOX, and Third-Party Assurance leadership to shape the next phase of the function’s evolution.Key Deliverables:

• A clearly articulated three-year strategic plan and operating roadmap aligned to the integrated leadership vision, business growth, regional expansion, and emerging risks.

• Translation of strategy into annual priorities, milestones, and execution plans.

Risk, Controls & Assurance Insight (Team and Enterprise Alignment)

• Provide deep expertise across internal controls, SOX, operational risk, and third-party assurance, with strong alignment to enterprise risk partners.Key Deliverables:

• A quarterly, insights-focused synthesis of emerging risks and trends, leveraging risk assessment dashboards and inputs from enterprise partners. – specifically ensuring Risk Assessment dashboards by Coverage lead are updated timely, and challenged

• Review & assess reporting from risk/control functions and ensure coordination across Internal Audit, SOX, SOC  risk functions (Enterprise Risk, Compliance, Legal, Technology, Operations, Finance, and regional leadership).

• Clear, concise content for quarterly management and Board reporting, as appropriate.

Team Metrics & Operational Delivery

• Drive disciplined execution of initiatives, regulatory commitments, and transformation efforts within budget.Key Deliverables:

• Governance routines and executive-level dashboards tracking progress, risks, budgets, and dependencies across the three assurance pillars.

• Ownership of the multi-year capability roadmap, including data, analytics, and tooling enhancements.

Financial & Resource Management

• Provide financial and capacity oversightKey Deliverables:

• Ownership of FTE and third-party budgets and forecasts, aligned to strategic priorities.

• Visibility into resource capacity and constraints to enable timely trade-off decisions; monitoring of utilization and vendor spend.

Leadership, Proxy & Escalation

• Act as a trusted extension of the CAE and leadership team.Key Deliverables:

• Ongoing support to CAE on priorities and execution.

• Logging, monitoring, and driving timely escalation and remediation of key issues to maintain momentum and accountability.

People, Culture & Talent

• Strengthen culture and build critical capabilities across the function.Key Deliverables:

• Talent strategy, workforce planning, recruiting, and onboarding in partnership with Human Capital and team leaders.

• Assessment of required competencies and capabilities, identification of gaps, and a clear plan to elevate skills and leadership depth across the team.

Qualifications & Experience

• 10-12 years of relevant experience at an investment bank, consulting firm, asset manager, or in a corporate strategy role with a focus on financial reporting process improvements and project management.

• Public accounting experience and/or experience in internal audit/SOX/SOC preferred but not required.

• A critical thinker with strong quantitative and analytical skills who expresses their thoughts and ideas clearly both in oral and written communications.

• A collaborative thinker who can also work independently, multitask and prioritize competing demands to meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment.

• A proactive and organized self-starter with a positive attitude, powerful work ethic, strong attention to detail and advanced knowledge of Excel and PowerPoint. 

• A change cultivator, with a strong technology background and a focus on automation and process improvements.

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution required.

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.

Apollo Global Management Inc. 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.

Pay Range

$190,000 – $250,000

Apollo Global Management, Inc. (together with its subsidiaries and affiliates) is committed to championing opportunity.

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.

The contents of the qualifications and experience section of this job description are a guideline only. If an applicant can otherwise demonstrate their suitability for the role they will be considered.

T__he base salary range for this position is listed above. This position is also eligible for a discretionary annual bonus based on personal, team, and Firm performance. Compensation ranges are based on several factors including job function, level, and geographic location. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including candidate experience and expertise, and may vary from the amounts listed here.