- Location
- Hyderabad
- Department
- Financial Operations
- Seniority
- Manager
- Education
- Master
- Source
- Greenhouse
Description
Company Overview
Arcesium is a global financial technology firm that solves complex data-driven challenges faced by some of the world’s most sophisticated financial institutions. We constantly innovate our platform and capabilities to meet tomorrow’s challenges, anticipate the risks our clients encounter, and design advanced solutions to help our clients achieve transformational business outcomes.
Financial technology is a high-growth industry as change and innovation continue to disrupt the status-quo and prompt major transformation. Arcesium is at a particularly interesting time in our own growth as we look to leverage our successfully established market position and expand operations in pursuit of strategic new business opportunities. We value intellectual curiosity, proactive ownership, and collaboration with colleagues, and we empower you to meaningfully contribute from day one and accelerate your professional development.
Arcesium is seeking a Manager for our Trade Accounting and Operations group based in Hyderabad. The group handles post-trade activities for hedge funds, with one of their core daily objectives being ensuring post-trade activities happen in a timely manner and record an accurate view of positions, cash, and P&L in the books. The group works closely with counterparties, fund administrators, and investment managers to achieve this. Primary activities include daily street reconciliations, settlements, P/L reconciliations, admin reconciliations, fund accounting (GAV / NAV preparation), investor accounting (including fee calculations), and regulatory reporting. The group deals with a variety of strategies and different kinds of financial instruments, spanning different geographies and time zones.
What you’ll do:
- Accountability for work product of the team - daily trade, position, Swap MTMs, and cash reconciliations to the prime
broker / custodians/administrators as well as all income / expense accruals. In addition, overseeing timely reconciliations
and settlements of OTC products. - Playing an active oversight role in day-to-day operations, escalation of aged breaks, business-as-usual troubleshooting
and setting direction and goals for individuals. - Coordinatingwith investment managers, prime brokers & administrators to resolve day-to-day exceptions, as well as
develop more strategic initiatives. - Liaising with other internal functions like pricing, middle office and collateral management to resolve discrepancies
and/or respond to internal queries. - Assisting the team and playing a review role for the accounting close (monthly / bi-weekly); providing adequate support
for outstanding breaks, and preparation of month-end binder. - Working with the team in NY and locally to define strategy and newprojects, including prioritizations.
- Providing assistance to auditors and fund administrators during the audit and NAV finalization process.
- Working with technology teams as needed, by assisting in special projects, developing bespoke reports, developing
specifications, product implementation and UAT.
What you’ll need:
- The ideal candidate must have an MBA (Finance) / CFA / CA or any another equivalent qualification
- 6-9 years of work experience in fund accounting
- In-depth domain / finance knowledge, attention to detail, the ability to work with minimal supervision and experience in managing high performers.
- Drive to enhance the efficiency of processes
- Strong project management skills and effective managerial ability
- strong communication and collaboration skills
- Proficiency in MS Excel.
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Emails from genuine Arcesium recruiters who are employees of the company will always come from the @arcesium.com domain. In some cases, you may also be contacted by independent search firms engaged to recruit on our behalf; emails from their employees should always come from their firm's applicable domain. We'll never ask for your banking information or any payment as part of the recruiting process. If something seems off or you're contacted by an unexpected third party, please reach out to us at [email protected] (US/UK), [email protected] (India) or [email protected] (Portugal/Sweden).
Arcesium is an equal opportunity employer.
