Team Summary

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 1800+ software engineering, accounting, operations, and treasury professionals. Arcesium seeks a highly motivated Forward Deployed Data Strategist (FDDS) to join our Client and Partner Development team in Hyderabad / Bangalore and work on client implementations for Private Markets. The candidate will be responsible for understanding the client requirements and onboard the Private Market clients’ in Arcesium platform. The candidate will also work for deep dive presentations, and proof of concept projects to help Arcesium win new business with private markets fund managers (private equity, private credit, real estate, infrastructure). The candidate should be willing to work in a dynamic and challenging environment of new client implementations into Arcesium platform and other special projects.

What You'll Do

• Develop a deep understanding and working knowledge of Arcesium’s business and functional domain, products, solutions, and the underlying technology
• Work with pre-onboarding teams like project management and other Forward Deployed teams to understand and gather the scope and client requirements.
• Review and understand key fund organizational documents and operational workflows. This will be required for onboarding Implementing Private Fund’s data in to Arcesium platform.
• Perform various activities like Data Mapping, data transformation, loading and reconciliation in Arcesium platform as a part of client implementations
• Liaise with various stakeholders within projects during the phases of implementation project.
• Support building/enhancing the implementation tools for seamless & faster onboarding.
• Work with technology teams as needed for assisting/testing in developing bespoke reports and any special requirement identified during requirement gathering phase.
• Manage a team for independent execution of the implementation project.

What You'll Need

• 1 to 8 years of financial industry experience along with professional certification like CA, MBA or CFA
• A background in private capital markets (one or several of the following: private equity, private credit, real estate, infrastructure) with strong fund accounting and operations domain expertise is required 
• Prior experience of client implementations/onboarding is an added advantage
• Working knowledge of various Private Fund structures, fee calculations, carried interest etc.
• Well versed with GAV/NAV calculations and overall investor allocations process
• Expert knowledge of Microsoft Office, including Word, PowerPoint, Visio, and Excel.  Knowledge of private equity accounting systems like Investran and is a significant plus.
• A good understanding of financial products
• Strong analytical & problem solving skills
• Willingness to work in a very dynamic environment and meet tight timelines.

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.