Over the last 20 years, Ares’ success has been driven by our people and our culture. Today, our team is guided by our core values – Collaborative, Responsible, Entrepreneurial, Self-Aware, Trustworthy – and our purpose to be a catalyst for shared prosperity and a better future. Through our recruitment, career development and employee-focused programming, we are committed to fostering a welcoming and inclusive work environment where high-performance talent of diverse backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives can build careers within this exciting and growing industry.

Job Description

Ares Management’s Service Desk team is responsible for providing excellent client service while serving as a point of contact for users to gain assistance in troubleshooting, getting answers to questions, and solving Technology-related issues. The Service Desk Team supports all Ares employees, including those in other locations, remotely as needed. They will also be responsible for aligning themselves with the relevant business units and departments and proactively strategizing business needs as it pertains to Technology-related requirements. The Service Desk Engineer will also participate in understanding, solutioning and deploying updates or fixes to the firm.

PRIMARY FUNCTIONS AND ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES

• Maintains a high degree of customer service and confidentiality (as needed) for all support queries while adhering to all service management principles

• Manages day to day incident submissions; builds and manages his/her queue; answers support queries via phone and email for local and remote offices; responds and completes all requests by taking ownership of every task completely and in a timely and courteous manner

• Manages onboarding and off-boarding process of employees as it pertains to Technology equipment by setting up new users, modifying access for existing users and installing relevant applications

• Exercises problem-solving skills daily to resolve customer issues as they arrive

• Monitors progress of tasks and/or incident resolutions while determining escalation points and criticality of requests

• Manage incident resolution activities by identifying, troubleshooting, and resolving software failures that prevent a user from employing an existing IT service

• Ensure all required documentation is current, all support activities are properly logged and tracked in ServiceNow and other operational and relevant support systems.

• Ensure the highest level of service delivery for all clients within the firm

• Identify issues and make recommendations that will improve processes and procedures

• Assist in strategic initiatives through brainstorming and implementation, etc.

• Augment team capabilities by introducing / deepening additional technical skillsets

• Identifying, proposing & deploying solutions for recurring issues at the workstation level

QUALIFICATIONS

Education

• Bachelor’s degree (or advanced) in business administration, Computer Science or related technical field

Experience Required

• 5+ years experience

General Requirements

• Experience with using ticketing systems (ServiceNow preferred)

• Operating within an ITIL framework

• Support within a high-volume, regulated enterprise environment (preferably finance)

• Creating / advocating user enabling technologies

• Technical Depth in supporting Widows 10 & common software (productivity, security) for an enterprise environment

• Experience using Active Directory

• Remote support using BeyondTrust (Bomgar) remote access appliance or similar

• Asset management principles and software use

• Support of the O365 suite

• Use of System Center Configuration Manager

• IOS/Android support

• Experience with Microsoft Intune (preferred)

• Experience using PrinterLogic (preferred)

• Minimum basic demonstrable knowledge with one at least one of the following:

  • PowerShell Scripting

  • ServiceNow development

  • Statistical Analysis

  • Process design

  • Knowledge management (KCS)

  • HTML

  • Process design, Analysis & Metrics

• Able to understand and articulate the benefits of technical implementations sufficient to drive adoption

• Someone who is not constrained by ‘what is’ but instead thinks of ‘what could be’

Reporting Relationships

Compensation

$48 hourly - $53 hourly

There is no set deadline to apply for this job opportunity. Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis until the search is no longer active.