Job Description

As a part of Brookfield’s $416B credit platform, Oaktree is a premier credit manager emphasizing an opportunistic, value-oriented, and risk-controlled approach to investing across credit, equity, and real estate.

Oaktree is 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.

Oaktree is wholly owned by Brookfield, a leading global investment firm with more than $1 trillion in assets under management. Brookfield owns and operates high-quality businesses and real assets that provide essential services and form the backbone of the global economy. It invests on behalf of institutions and individuals around the world across infrastructure, renewable power and transition, private equity, real estate, and credit.

For additional information, please visit Oaktree’s website at http://www.oaktreecapital.com/

Scope and Responsibilities

The Vice President position is within the Strategy and Operations Team of the Business Transformation department. This role operates at the intersection of strategy and execution — translating organizational ambiguity into clear direction, building the cross-functional alignment needed to drive meaningful outcomes, and ensuring the firm's most critical initiatives are delivered with rigor and impact. The Vice President serves as a trusted advisor to senior leadership and a visible champion of operational excellence across the enterprise.

Strategic Leadership & Advisory

• Serve as an advisor to business, technology, and third-party partners — bringing a strategic lens to complex, cross-functional challenges and shaping how priorities are set, sequenced, and resourced
• Establish trusted relationships with department heads and senior stakeholders across the firm, acting as a credible voice on operational strategy and organizational alignment
• Navigate competing perspectives across leadership to build durable consensus — adapting communication approach and framing to resonate with diverse audiences from executive to working-team level
• Synthesize complex information from across the organization into executive-ready insights and recommendations, enabling faster and better-informed decision-making at the senior level

Initiative Ownership & Delivery

• Lead a portfolio of high-visibility, firm-wide initiatives from inception through operationalization — maintaining end-to-end accountability for scope, timeline, deliverables, and strategic outcomes with minimal oversight
• Develop and own core project artifacts including project charters, initiative roadmaps, and delivery plans — maintaining these as living documents that reflect current status and keep stakeholders aligned
• Define and track key performance indicators that connect initiative delivery to measurable business outcomes, providing leadership with clear line of sight into progress and results
• Plan and facilitate working sessions, steering committees, and cross-functional workshops — driving structured dialogue that moves initiatives forward and surfaces decisions that need to be made at the right level
• Manage risk and issue resolution with urgency — identifying blockers early, escalating appropriately, and driving corrective action in partnership with business and technology leads
• Gather, analyze, and draw conclusions from complex data and operational information — presenting findings clearly and concisely to a range of audiences in formats suited to their needs

Organizational Enablement

• Identify and remove structural barriers to execution — driving resolution of risks, issues, and dependencies across business and technology functions through senior-level engagement
• Partner with business leaders to design and embed new operating models, processes, and ways of working — including developing documentation and delivering training to support sustainable adoption by BAU teams
• Anticipate the downstream impacts of strategic decisions on people, process, and operations — proactively surfacing implications for HR, legal, corporate services, and other enabling functions
• Act as a subject matter expert within the scope of assigned initiative responsibilities — developing deep fluency in the relevant processes, systems, or operating models to credibly guide stakeholders and challenge assumptions

Experience Required

• 10+ years in transformation, process improvement, project management, change management, and/or business analysis experience within the financial services industry, preferably in investment management;
• Experience in “Big 4” type organizations (or comparable), in consulting preferred
• Track record in advisory/transformation, project management and process improvement;
• Solid analytical skills and ability to understand and resolve complex problems;
• Strong ability to quickly synthesize challenges and effectively tell a story through consumable materials
• Experience with operating in the grey and comfortable establishing structure in a fluid, fast paced environment
• Experience in working with and reviewing large sets of data including data manipulation in logical data structures and reconciliations;
• Expertise in Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Jira/Confluence, Monday.com, and Visio.

Personal Attributes

• Relationship Building; works effectively with strong, diverse teams of people with multiple perspectives, talents, and backgrounds. He or she is known for doing what is best irrespective of politics and is comfortable with consensus building (at multiple levels) and soliciting constructive feedback; ability to elicit cooperation from a wide variety of participants including upper management, clients, other departments, and 3rd party providers.
• Communication; strong interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills; ability to prepare and present complex material. Able to provide transparency in communication style to appropriate audiences.
• Independence & Collaboration; experience at working both independently and in a team-oriented, collaborative environment; must be able to drive work effectively with limited supervision (at times) while representing department and executive management interests and concerns.
• Work Ethic; focus on continual development, performance, accountability and self-motivation.
• Flexibility & Organization; adapt to shifting priorities, demands and timelines through analytical and problem-solving capabilities; proven ability to multi-task and efficiently manage time across competing activities/resources; able to effectively prioritize, execute tasks, and thrive in a high-pressure fast paced environment.
• Intellectual Curiosity; energized by learning new things and engaging across a wide range of issues; must have strong problem solving skills; understand the importance of attention to detail, adept at conducting research into project-related issues and products; displays a technical aptitude that lends itself to learning and mastering new technologies.
• Driving Results; sets aggressive timelines and objectives to drive results, conveys a sense of urgency, and drives issues to closure; is a self-starter committed to achieving results and has a strong sense of ownership and follow-through.
• Judgment; makes recommendations and decisions that balance a variety of factors.

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Base Salary Range for Vice President

$160,000 - $200,000

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.

For positions based in Los Angeles

For those applying for a position in the city of Los Angeles, the firm will consider for employment qualified applicants with a criminal history in a manner consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.