Product Lead - Opterra - Investment & Portfolio Accounting (UBOR)

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 for an individual contributor role. This product team is responsible for building the core accounting product offering of our platform. This position offers the 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 ideas and their value proposition to our client base.
• Distill the vision into documents such as product roadmap and product/feature specifications via deep dives into the domain, gathering requirements and/or business analysis.
• Work closely with 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.
• Conduct competitor analysis.

What You'll Need:

• Fluent with LLMs and agentic tools, and use them daily to accelerate research and analysis.
• Working knowledge of fixed income asset classes and related concepts such as amortization, loan settlements, etc.
• Demonstrates high agency — self-directed, outcome-accountable, and proactive in problem-solving.
• Critical thinking and the ability to articulate standpoints/ideas and influence stakeholders.
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to multitask and manage multiple lines of execution with attention to detail and quality.
• Certifications in the financial domain such as CA or CFA will be an added advantage.
• Experience of working in the front, middle, and/or back-office space will be an added advantage.
• Fund accounting and journal entries knowledge will be an added advantage.
• Experience working closely with engineers.
• Outstanding academic background and passion to work in a high-tech software development environment.
• A high level of personal maturity and a collaborative attitude.
• A healthy combination of resourcefulness, domain expertise, creativity, and execution prowess.

Arcesium's Personal Data Privacy Notice for Candidates is linked here.

Recruiting Security

Emails from genuine Arcesium recruiters who are employees of the company will always come from the @arcesium.com domain. In some cases, you may also be contacted by independent search firms engaged to recruit on our behalf; emails from their employees should always come from their firm's applicable domain. We'll never ask for your banking information or any payment as part of the recruiting process. If something seems off or you're contacted by an unexpected third party, please reach out to us at careers@arcesium.com (US/UK), careers-india@arcesium.com (India) or careers-europe@arcesium.com (Portugal/Sweden).

Arcesium is an equal opportunity employer.