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.
Position Summary
As we continue to grow and expand our market presence, we are seeking a highly motivated and analytical Corporate Strategy Intern to join our dynamic Strategy team. This role offers an exciting opportunity to contribute to the long-term success of the organization and shape the future of our business.
As an intern in the Corporate Strategy Team, you will play a crucial role in evaluating growth opportunities to enhance our competitive positioning, analyzing market trends and driving the company's strategic initiatives. You will have exposure to our senior leadership, including the CEO, and will work on our key growth initiatives. Your insights and recommendations will guide key business decisions and contribute to the overall growth and success of the company.
Responsibilities
- Strategic Analysis: Conduct market, competitive, and financial analyses to support strategic initiatives, new market entry, or M&A considerations.
- Corporate Planning: Assist in annual and long-range planning, including modeling business performance, scenario analysis, and KPI tracking.
- Market Intelligence: Build insights on industry trends, emerging technologies, and competitor moves to inform leadership discussions.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with business units to translate strategic priorities into actionable initiatives.
- Executive Communications: Develop presentations, dashboards, and briefing materials for senior management and board-level reviews.
- Special Projects: Support ad-hoc strategic priorities such as operational improvement analyses.
Qualifications
- Pursuing a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Business, Economics, Finance, Engineering, or related field is preferred
- Strong analytical and quantitative skills, with proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to synthesize complex information clearly.
- Ability to work independently, manage multiple priorities, and collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.
- Interest in corporate strategy, finance, or management consulting.
- Ability to use common LLMs, including working knowledge of prompt engineering basics
What you’ll gain:
- Exposure to executive-level strategic decision-making processes.
- Hands-on experience in building business cases and analyzing markets.
- Mentorship from experienced strategy and corporate development professionals.
- Opportunities to contribute ideas that influence company direction and growth.
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.
The expected monthly base salary for this position is $5,500. Our compensation package also includes a one-time housing stipend.
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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.
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What We Do
Arcesium is a global financial technology and professional services firm, delivering post-investment and enterprise data management solutions to some of the world's most sophisticated financial institutions, including hedge funds, banks, institutional asset managers, and private equity firms. Expertly designed to achieve a single source of truth throughout a client's ecosystem, Arcesium's cloud-native technology is built to systematize the most complex workflows and help clients achieve scale.
Building on a platform developed and tested by investment and technology development firm, the D. E. Shaw group, Arcesium was launched as a joint venture with Blackstone Alternative Asset Management. J.P. Morgan, another large client, later joined as our third partner. Today, Arcesium services over $679 billion in global client AUM with a staff of over 1,500 software engineering, accounting, operations, and treasury professionals.
