Consultant – Connectivity Consulting Group

Location: Bangalore/Hyderabad/Gurgaon

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 1650+software engineering,
accounting, operations, and treasury professionals

We are looking for a candidate for our Connectivity Consulting Group which is the first point of contact
in Arcesium for counterparties, services, third-party vendors and clients in all matters relating to
establishing connectivity and enable systematic data transmission from client counterparts to our
platform. The group plays an important role in facilitating availability of inbound and outbound data for
various downstream teams (Middle Office, Trade Accounting & Operations, Treasury etc.) to perform
critical operational workflows like Reconciliations, Collateral Management, Pricing.

The group has an opening for a vital role where we establish intelligent reconciliation logic between the
external data and client data, provide operational support, and product support to our internal and
external clients.

What you will do:

 Liaise with multiple stakeholders like clients, custodians, prime brokers, admins to enable
systematic data workflow to Arcesium’s platform.
 Analyze and interpret external/internal data and establish logic for daily cash and position
consumed by Arcesium’s downstream teams and systems and assist in resolving any variances.
 Become familiar with the reconciliation logic for simple and complex asset classes and assist
clients (internal & external) with any related queries.
 Point of Contact for assigned clients to handle various queries and provide a timely resolution as
per defined SLAs.
 Manage the client mandate from connectivity consulting perspective and ensure all their
queries are addressed as expected.
 Work 75% supporting existing operations and 25% on new build required for existing client
operations.
 Perform regular review of client’s workflow to look for business process improvements.
  Understand the upstream and downstream workflow and liaise with various development
teams to meet the business requirements related to any new reconciliation setup or new
implementation.
 Achieve good understanding of the internal control environment and ensure compliance with
internal policies and procedures.
 Communicate regularly and effectively and must have ability to build effective relationships with
key internal and external stakeholders.

What you’ll need:

 A minimum bachelor’s degree in financial discipline

 Proficient in Industry and domain knowledge
 Technical skillsets including knowledge of python and other languages would be preferable.
 An outstanding academic background with a passion to work in fast paced and dynamic
environment
 Exceptional verbal and written communication skills
 Ability to multitask and manage multiple deliverables
 A high level of personal maturity and a collaborative attitude
 Exceptional interpersonal skills
 Should be able to demonstrate delivering high-quality work under stringent deadlines
 Work experience between 0 to 3 years if applicable, in financial services - supporting Middle and
back-office trade life cycle and/or interacting with Hedge Fund managers and other asset
managers will be an advantage