Manager - Middle Office Forward Deployed Data Strategy, CPD

CFA Institute; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Arcesium in Bengaluru is seeking a strong analytical candidate to join our Middle Office group. The role includes managing daily transactions, onboarding clients, and collaborating with various stakeholders to resolve exceptions. The ideal candidate will have 6-10 years of experience in financial services, an MBA or CFA, and a deep understanding of financial products.

Proficiency in Microsoft Office and SQL is essential, with experience in VBA/Python considered a big plus. Arcesium is committed to diversity and equal opportunity in the workplace.

Qualifications

• 6-10 years' experience in financial services with strong product knowledge.
• In-depth understanding of the trade lifecycle stages.
• Strong attention to detail and analytical thinking.

Responsibilities

• Manage daily transactions and security master creation.
• Onboard clients to Arcesium platform and define scope.
• Resolve day-to-day exceptions with stakeholders.

Skills

Analytical skills

Financial products knowledge

Communication skills

SQL proficiency

Education

MBA and/or CFA

Tools

Microsoft Office

VBA/Python

Job 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.

We are looking for an analytically strong candidate to join our Middle Office group. The Middle Office group in Arcesium is responsible for transaction management, security and reference data management and asset servicing across the entire lifecycle of various financial instruments. The candidate will be responsible for driving all activities in the Middle Office space including but not limited to below, in addition to client onboarding, client management and taking on stand‑alone projects.

What You'll Do

• Candidate should be able to do daily transaction management, creation, and management of security master across different asset classes, reference data management and asset servicing.
• Help the project POC's to onboard clients on Arcesium platform from middle office perspective: define the scope, integrate with client's OMS and testing along with a proper sign off, also help in establishing workflows.
• Perform day to day operations including exceptions resolution and timely response to close the loop with various stakeholders.
• Coordinate with client ops teams, investment managers, data vendors to resolve day‑to‑day exceptions, as well as develop more strategic initiatives.
• Consult with other internal functions like pricing and trade accounting to resolve discrepancies and/or respond to internal queries.
• Create & maintain proper documentation of new and already established workflows.
• Work with technology teams as needed by assisting in special projects, developing bespoke reports, developing specifications, product implementation and UAT.

What You'll Need

• Experience of 6-10 years in the financial services industry and a very strong knowledge of financial products across asset classes - equities, fixed income, commodities, FX, and Credit.
• An MBA and/or CFA, preferably.
• An in‑depth understanding of the various stages of the trade life cycle.
• An understanding of data sources such as Refinitiv, Bloomberg, IDC, Markit, etc.
• Experience in integration with different trade execution systems.
• Strong analytical skills, critical thinking skills, and attention to detail.
• The ability to be initiative‑taking and to think independently along with solid organizational skills.
• Strong people skills.
• Effective oral/written communications skills.
• The ability to work under pressure and take on additional operational responsibilities.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications and SQL.
• Experience in VBA/Python is a big plus.

Arcesium and its affiliates do not discriminate in employment matters on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, pregnancy, national origin, age, military service eligibility, veteran status, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, or any other category protected by law. Note that for us, this is more than just a legal boilerplate. We are genuinely committed to these principles, which form an important part of our corporate culture, and are eager to hear from extraordinarily well qualified individuals having a wide range of backgrounds and personal characteristics.

Arcesium's Personal Data Privacy Notice for Candidates is linked here.

Arcesium is an equal opportunity employer.