Consultant-Connectivity Consulting

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 a candidate for our Connectivity Consulting Group which is the first point of contact in Arcesium for counterparties, services, third-party vendors and clients in all matters relating to establishing connectivity and enable systematic data transmission from client counterparts to our platform. The group plays an important role in facilitating availability of inbound and outbound data for various downstream teams (Middle Office, Trade Accounting & Operations, Treasury etc.) to perform critical operational workflows like Reconciliations, Collateral Management, Pricing. The group has an opening for a vital role where we establish intelligent reconciliation logic between the external data and client data, provide operational support, and product support to our internal and external clients. What you will do: Liaise with multiple stakeholders like clients, custodians, prime brokers, admins to enable systematic data workflow to Arcesium’s platform. Analyze and interpret external/internal data and establish logic for daily cash, position, trades, collateral, margin etc. statements; consumed by Arcesium’s downstream teams/systems and assist in resolving any variances. Become familiar with the reconciliation logic for simple and complex asset classes and assist clients (internal & external) with any related queries. Point of Contact for assigned clients to handle various queries and provide a timely resolution as per defined SLAs. Manage the client mandate from connectivity consulting perspective and ensure all their queries are addressed as expected. Work 75% supporting existing operations and 25% on new build required for existing client operations. Perform regular review of client’s workflow to look for business process improvements. Understand the upstream and downstream workflow and liaise with various development teams to meet the business requirements related to any new reconciliation setup or new implementation. Achieve good understanding of the internal control environment and ensure compliance with internal policies and procedures. Communicate regularly and effectively and must have ability to build effective relationships with key internal and external stakeholders. What you’ll need: Bachelor’s/master’s degree in financial discipline with 1-3 years of relevant experience Proficient in Industry and domain knowledge Technical skillsets including knowledge of python and other languages would be preferable. An outstanding academic background with a passion to work in fast paced and dynamic environment Exceptional verbal and written communication skills Ability to multitask and manage multiple deliverables A high level of personal maturity and a collaborative attitude Exceptional interpersonal skills Should be able to demonstrate delivering high-quality work under stringent deadlines Work experience between 0 to 3 years if applicable, in financial services - supporting Middle and back-office trade life cycle and/or interacting with Hedge Fund managers and other asset managers will be an advantage 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.