Senior Analyst - TAO

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.

Team Summary
We are looking for Senior Analyst to join our Trade Accounting and Operations (TAO) team, which is responsible for various post-trade activities. One of the core daily objectives of TAO is to ensure the post-trade activities happen in a timely manner and to record an accurate view of positions, cash, and P&L. You will work closely with counterparties, fund administrators, and investment managers to achieve this and other primary activities which include daily street reconciliations, settlements, P/L reconciliations, admin reconciliations, and fund accounting (GAV/NAV reconciliation).

What you will do:
• Develop a complete understanding and perform portfolio accounting and reconciliation operations for various asset classes across equities, fixed income, derivatives, rates, credits, currency, total return swaps, currency, and crypto products, etc.
• Perform reconciliation of positions, cash, interest, expenses, and corporate actions for complex client Funds in Arcesium platform against the information provided by counterparties like custodians, banks, prime brokers, Isda counterparties and resolve breaks to provide clients an accurate view of the portfolio and cash available.
• Perform reconciliation of cash, positions, profit and loss, GAV and NAV for complex client Funds in Arcesium platform against the information provided administrators and resolve breaks to assist our clients in issuance accurate returns and statements to their investor.
• Liaise closely with internal and external counterparts to discuss and resolve issues and breaks in accounting and reconciliation processes.
• Engage with clients, investment managers in resolving queries related to portfolio accounting swings in income, expenses, asset, liability and overall NAV for such complex funds and coordinate with them to resolve identified outages.
• Ensure all accounting related aspects for asset class lifecycle events are captured correctly and process accounting adjustments where needed.
• Collaborate with technology and product teams on special projects, be-spoke reporting requirements and UAT of new functionalities.

What you’ll need:
• Masters in finance / CFA/CA or equivalent qualification
• 2-5 years of experience in portfolio, fund accounting and reconciliations of experience in portfolio, fund accounting and reconciliations
• Experience working with a variety of financial instruments across geographies.
• Experience working in complex funds which have exposure to variety of asset classes.
• Working proficiency with MS Excel
• A drive to work with minimal supervision and ability to work well in teams.
• An eye for detail and champion in process efficiency and improvements.
• Ability to communicate effectively with all stakeholders.

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.