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 exceptionally talented resource to join one of our cross-functional product teams in our Hyderabad/Bangalore/Gurgaon office for an Individual contributor role. This product team is responsible for building the core accounting product offering of our platform. 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:

• Carry the product/feature from concept to creation
• Brainstorm product/feature and its value proposition to our client base
• Distil the vision into documents such as product roadmap and product/feature specification via deep dives into domain, gathering requirements and/or business analysis
• Work closely with the engineers/architects to translate the Product Specification to design, and then to the product itself
• Prepare comprehensive business test cases/beds to aid the engineering process
• 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
• Track and question risks/assumptions
• Proactively escalate issues and mitigate execution risks
• Be involved in conducting competitor analysis

What you’ll need:

• 5+ years of experience working in the front, middle and/or back-office space with advanced knowledge in field of Trade Accounting and operations.
• Candidate should have working knowledge for Fixed income asset classes and its related concepts like amortization, loan settlements etc
• Experience working closely with engineers.
• 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
• Ability to code in Python will be an added advantage.
• Candidate should have a post graduate degree in finance
• Certifications in financial domain such as CA, CFA will be an added advantage.