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.
Arcesium seeks a talented Project Manager to join the Forward deployed PMO team. This person will support Strategic Program Managers by leading and managing complex projects, both client facing and internal project. The successful candidate will be responsible for a variety of critical initiatives that will help the firm achieve its growth and other strategic goals.
What You’ll do:
• Implementing products for new, large, and complex enterprise clients
• Executing internal strategic projects
• Recommending operational improvements to support growth and other internal goals
• Creating, tracking, and coordinating complicated project plans that stay within scope and budget
• Overseeing the creation of deliverables for multiple projects across a distributed, cross-functional team both internally and with clients
• Collaborating with internal teams to develop messaging to senior stakeholders
• Building and maintaining implementation toolkit to achieve efficiencies and scalability
• Managing risks pre-emptively, while using metrics to drive projects forward
• Escalating risks to Strategic Program Managers
• Building and maintaining relationships, and creating trust with mainly internal stakeholders
• Managing internal stakeholders and driving internal teams in process-oriented problem solving to agree optimal solutions
• Teaching and mentoring project management skills to peers
What You’ll need:
• The ideal candidate will have 6-11 years of project management or consulting experience, preferably with a background in finance or technology
• Experience and domain knowledge of any of the functions in investment operations like Accounting, Middle office and Treasury is highly preferred
• Demonstrable ability to manage expectations and influence key stakeholders at all levels of an organization, including executive and C-level
• This individual must be an organized, process-oriented problem-solver who can multi-task and manage competing interests
• Proficiency with project governance and experience in delivering successful client solutions is a must
• Excellent listening, negotiation, and presentation abilities
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Strong PowerPoint and Excel skills are mandatory. Experience in data modeling is a plus
• Strong interpersonal skills, and be able to present to and persuade senior staff to engage with key initiatives and process improvements
• Thriving in a fast paced, deadline-driven team environment, while having a “roll up your sleeves” attitude is critical
• A bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or finance/economics, with a strong record of academic achievement is required and an MBA is highly preferred
• While an understanding of software development processes is preferred, a passion and aptitude for process-driven execution is a must
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Arcesium is an equal opportunity employer.
Skills Required
- 6-11 years of project management or consulting experience
- Experience managing expectations and influencing stakeholders, including executive and C-level stakeholders
- Project governance experience and successful client solution delivery
- Excellent listening, negotiation, and presentation abilities
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Strong Microsoft PowerPoint and Microsoft Excel skills
- Organized, process-oriented problem-solving and ability to manage competing priorities
- Strong interpersonal skills and ability to persuade senior staff
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, finance, or economics with strong academic achievement
- MBA
- Background in finance or technology
- Investment operations domain knowledge, including accounting, middle office, or treasury
- Data modeling experience
- Understanding of software development processes
Arcesium Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage is described as comprehensive, including medical, dental, vision, mental‑health programs, and protections for life, accident, and disability. The scope indicates strong support for physical and mental well‑being.
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Retirement Support — Retirement offerings include a 401(k) and a pension alongside financial protections such as life and disability insurance. These elements point to meaningful long‑term financial security within total rewards.
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Parental & Family Support — Parental leave is characterized as generous, with extended maternity and supportive paternity leave in some locations, plus family and adoption assistance. This family focus complements broader time‑off and caregiving supports.
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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.
