Product Lead - Financial Reporting

Arcesium; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 2,200,000 - 3,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Arcesium is hiring a Product Manager to join our Product Management Group in Hyderabad, Bengaluru or Gurgaon. You will define the product vision for financial reporting solutions, conduct market research, build a strong roadmap, and work with engineers to translate requirements into scalable features.

The role requires 6+ years of overall experience with 2+ years in product management and a deep understanding of hedge funds’ financial reporting, accounting principles and relevant regulations.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of overall experience with at least 2+ years in product management.
• Experience with financial reporting for hedge funds or asset managers.
• Strong knowledge of financial instruments, accounting and hedge fund regulatory requirements.

Responsibilities

• Define product vision and strategy for financial reporting solutions.
• Conduct market research, competitive analysis and gather client feedback.
• Develop and maintain a product roadmap and prioritise features.
• Collaborate with engineers to translate product specs into the product.
• Evaluate progress using test cases and ensure alignment with the vision.
• Perform competitor analysis and articulate business cases, timelines and budgets.
• Coordinate with other PMs on cross‑business projects.

Job description

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 $220 billion in assets with a staff of over 2600+ software engineering, accounting, operations, and treasury professionals.

We are looking for an exceptionally talented individual to join the Product Management Group in our Hyderabad, Bengaluru or Gurgaon office. This group is responsible for working with technology teams throughout the process lifecycle to specify, develop, and implement the firms’ infrastructure and new middle-and-back-office applications.

This position offers opportunity to define and design the next generation of products on our platform, which is used by some of the most sophisticated hedge funds in the world; and to collaborate with some of the brightest minds in the industry.

What you’ll do:

• Define and articulate a clear product vision and strategy for financial reporting solutions aligning with overall company goals and market opportunities.
• Conduct in-depth market research, competitive analysis, and client feedback gathering to identify unmet needs, emerging trends, and new product opportunities within the financial reporting space.
• Develop and maintain a comprehensive product roadmap, prioritizing features and initiatives based on strategic value, market demand, and technical feasibility.
• Work closely with the engineers/architects to translate the Product Specification to design, and then to the product itself
• Rigorously and continuously evaluate the progress of product/feature-in-flight by leveraging the created test cases/beds and ensure compliance to the product/feature specification and the vision
• Be involved in conducting competitor analysis
• Articulate business cases, estimate timelines and budgets and communicate with all stakeholders, prepare project plans, release notes, etc.
• Work with other product managers for projects cutting across multiple business areas to provide comprehensive business solutions

What you’ll need:

• 6+ years of overall experience working and minimum 2+ year experience in products management
• Demonstrated experience with financial reporting for hedge funds or other alternative asset managers.
• In-depth knowledge of financial instruments, accounting principles, Fund accounting and regulatory requirements specific to hedge funds.
• Proficiency in Excel along with strong analytical skills to mine counterparty statements
• Experience in working closely with engineering teams
• Outstanding academic background & passion to work in a high-tech software development environment
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills
• Critical thinking and the ability to articulate standpoints/ideas and influence stakeholders
• Ability to multitask and manage multiple lines of execution with attention to detail and quality
• A high level of personal maturity and a collaborative attitude
• A healthy combination of resourcefulness, domain expertise, creativity and execution prowess