Arcesium
Post-trade fintech (D.E. Shaw spin-off) running data, ops and accounting for hedge funds.
Founded
2015 (spun out of D.E. Shaw & Co.)
HQ
New York, USA
CEO / MD
Gaurav Suri (CEO)
Employees
~2,400+ globally
Ownership
Private (D.E. Shaw origin; investors include Blackstone and J.P. Morgan)
Industry
Financial technology / post-trade services
What they do
Arcesium builds a cloud platform plus managed services that handle everything AFTER a trade is executed for hedge funds, private-markets firms, asset managers and banks: trade capture, reconciliation, valuations, treasury, fund accounting and data management. Clients effectively outsource their complex middle- and back-office data operations to Arcesium's software and operations teams, with large delivery centres in India.
How they make money
B2B SaaS plus services. Recurring platform fees from institutional clients, typically scaling with assets, complexity and the modules used, layered with fees for managed post-trade operations. Long, sticky contracts because Arcesium sits deep inside a client's data plumbing.
Why it's interesting for a marketer
This is an operations role, not a marketing one, and the draw is honest: rare, credible exposure to how institutional finance actually works. A couple of years here sets up a strong pivot into B2B fintech product marketing, client solutions or strategy, where people who genuinely understand post-trade workflows are scarce and hard to replace.
Products & services
- • Aquata - the cloud data platform and marketplace of integrations
- • Opterra - middle/back-office processing and accounting
- • Managed post-trade operations services
- • Treasury, reconciliation and fund-accounting workflows
- • Arcesium Intelligence - an agentic AI layer across the platform
Market position
A specialist leader in complex post-trade data and accounting for sophisticated investors, competing on depth and accuracy rather than breadth.
Scale
A global fintech serving institutional investors, with roughly USD 6 trillion+ of assets processed on its platform and major delivery hubs in Hyderabad and Bengaluru alongside offices in the US, UK, Portugal and Hong Kong.
Founded
2015
Origin
D.E. Shaw spin-off
India hubs
Hyderabad, Bengaluru
Domain
Post-trade / data ops
Recent developments
- → Launched Arcesium Intelligence, an agentic AI platform embedded across Opterra and Aquata (2026)
- → Acquired Stockholm-based Limina to extend from middle/back-office into front-office order and portfolio management (2026)
- → Opened a Hong Kong office to serve growing APAC demand (2026)
- → Partnered with FactSet on a unified front-to-back platform for asset managers
Culture & reputation
Engineering- and rigour-led, with a D.E. Shaw lineage that prizes analytical precision, ownership and getting the numbers exactly right. Fast-paced, meritocratic and demanding, with steep early learning on how institutional finance actually works.
Strengths
- • Deep, sticky domain expertise in post-trade
- • Strong engineering and analytics culture
- • Marquee institutional clients
Weaknesses
- • Narrow, complex niche with a steep learning curve
- • Limited brand recognition outside finance
Opportunities
- • AI-driven automation of post-trade workflows
- • Expansion into front-office and private markets
- • Growing APAC and European footprint
Threats
- • Large incumbents (SS&C, Broadridge) with scale
- • Client concentration among sophisticated funds
- • Talent competition in fintech
Why join (as a fresher)
- • Rare, credible exposure to how institutional finance works end to end - a strong launchpad into B2B fintech product, strategy or client roles
- • Learn a genuinely complex domain (post-trade, fund accounting) that few peers understand, making you hard to replace
- • Strong engineering and analytics culture with real ownership early
“Why Arcesium?” - starter answer
“I want to build my career on a real understanding of how institutional finance works, and Arcesium sits at exactly that layer - the data and operations plumbing behind hedge funds and asset managers. Its engineering rigour, D.E. Shaw lineage and current push into AI-driven post-trade tooling mean I would learn a complex, defensible domain early, which sets up a strong move into B2B fintech product or strategy.”
Pro tips
- Revise accounting cold to Class-12 / CFA-L1 level: journal entries, the three statements, and how a single transaction flows through all three. This is the single most-tested area across the test and both technical rounds.
- Master the trade-lifecycle and reconciliation vocabulary (break, custodian, prime broker, corporate action, NAV, T+1 settlement) and practise narrating a break-resolution scenario aloud until it is fluent.
- Prepare a bulletproof answer to 'why ops as a marketing student', framed as deliberate B2B fintech domain-building, and confirm to yourself that you are genuinely fine with US-shift timings before the HR round, because they will test that commitment directly.
Eligibility (as listed)
Open for All
Role(s) offered: Analyst -Financial Operations
Profile AI-drafted on 25 Jul 2026 from public knowledge - verify time-sensitive facts before your interview. · Careers page
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