Title:  Senior Analyst, Forward Deployed Data Strategy

Team Summary

Arcesium is a financial technology and professional services firm, delivering solutions to some of the world’s most sophisticated financial institutions, including hedge funds, banks, and institutional asset managers. Expertly designed to achieve a single source of truth throughout a client’s ecosystem, Arcesium’ s cloud-native technology is built to systematize the most complex tasks.

Building on a platform developed and tested by one of the world’s leading investment and technology development firms, the D. E. Shaw group, Arcesium launched as an independent company in 2015. Arcesium received additional equity backing from a second seed client, Blackstone Alternative Asset Management, the world’s largest discretionary allocator to hedge funds. In January 2020, J.P. Morgan made a strategic investment in the company.

Arcesium supports more than $675+ billion in assets with a staff of over 1700+software engineering, accounting, operations, and treasury professionals.

The newly instituted, centralized client Implementation team is responsible for managing the all the end to end client implementations, strategic client facing initiatives, and internal firm-wide projects. 
The implementation team consists of Implementation Engineers, PMO specialists, and ISPG team members, housed within the Client & Partnership Development (CPD) Org. These three pillars are responsible for driving an end to end execution of a client implementation and transition to BAU teams. Throughout the lifecycle, we strive to be thought partners internally and with our clients to ensure that the platform and services are being delivered accurately and timely, achieving client needs and providing a seamless experience. Thereby, we are expanding the ISPG team which will span across India locations (HYD, BLR, DEL). 

What You'll Do

• Handling margin calls and monitoring short term liquidity of funds; gaining a strong understanding of the portfolio, it’s financing structure and dynamics to efficiently analyze causes for change in liquidity
• Understanding the various margining methodologies of the several agreements in a portfolio and tracking the internal view of margin
• Handling end-to-end implementation of margin/financing, broker revenue, and counterparty exposure information
• Handling end-to-end onboarding of new clients; gathering requirements and showcasing our capabilities clearly
• Managing stakeholders’ expectations; being proactive in identifying their needs, articulating the scope of the offering, escalating issues in a timely manner, and showcasing persuasiveness in bringing about changes
• Learn and enhance knowledge on complete Arcesium platform/industry, not restricted to current area of expertise
• Perform various activities like data gathering, GAP analysis, Mapping, Data transformation, Loading and reconciliation, BAU activities setup, Client parallel support etc… in Arcesium platform as a part of client implementation
• Work with technology teams as needed, by assisting in special projects, developing bespoke reports, developing specifications, product implementation and UAT

What You'll Need

•            3 to 7 years of experience working in the Treasury coupled with in-depth domain/finance  knowledge.

•            Collateral management and financing agreements as well as margin methodologies.

•            Experience in securities lending and borrowing as well as optimization of portfolio financing.

•            An understanding of data sources such as Reuters, Bloomberg, Markit etc for Treasury related.

•            Strong analytical skills, problem-solving skills and attention to detail.

•            Proven track-record of handling projects and improving

•            Strong interpersonal skills with a collaborative attitude.

•            Effective oral/written communications skills.

•            Ability to work under pressure and take on additional operational tasks

•            Proficient in Microsoft Office applications especially MS Excel

•            Hands on experience with VBA macros / Python will be a big plus.

Members of the Arcesium Company Group do not discriminate in employment matters on the basis of sex, race, color, caste, creed, religion, pregnancy, national origin, age, military service eligibility, veteran status, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, or any other protected class.