Manager - Middle Office Forward Deployed Data Strategy, CPD

Arcesium LLC; Gurugram District, Hyderabad, Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Arcesium LLC in Gurugram is looking for experienced professionals with 6–10 years in financial services to manage transactions and collaborate with clients. Candidates should have strong analytical skills, and proficiency in SQL, plus an MBA or CFA is preferred.

The role involves coordinating operations, creating documentation, and resolving financial discrepancies across various asset classes. A knowledge of trade execution systems and programming in VBA or Python is a big plus.

Qualifications

• 6–10 years experience in financial services industry.
• Strong knowledge of financial products across asset classes.
• In-depth understanding of the trade life cycle.

Responsibilities

• Manage daily transactions and security master.
• Coordinate with clients and resolve exceptions.
• Create and maintain documentation of workflows.

Skills

Experience in financial services

Strong analytical skills

Effective communication skills

Proficiency in SQL

Knowledge of financial products

Experience in VBA/Python

Education

MBA or CFA (preferred)

Tools

Microsoft Office applications

Trade execution systems

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.

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 POCs 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, and 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 communication 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.