Associate (Internal Audit – IT Assurance and Compliance)

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.

Arcesium is a financial technology and professional services firm, delivering solutions to some of the world’s most sophisticated financial institutions, including hedge funds, banks, and institutional asset managers. 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 tasks.

Building on a platform developed and tested by one of the world’s leading investment and technology development firms, the D. E. Shaw group, Arcesium launched as an independent company in 2015. Arcesium received additional equity backing from a second seed client, Blackstone Alternative Asset Management, the world’s largest discretionary allocator to hedge funds. In January 2020, J.P. Morgan made a strategic investment in the company.

Arcesium supports more than $677 billion in assets with a staff of over 2000+ software engineering, accounting, operations, and treasury professionals.

We are looking for an associate with experience in technology risk, audit and compliance space to join our growing Internal Audit team. The IA team evaluates and maintains the technology risk and compliance at firm level and works with multiple groups.

What you’ll do:

As a associate, you will be part of newly set up team and own/manage/execute projects in IT Internal Audit (Assurance and Compliance). This includes (but not limited to):

• Assist in planning and executing Internal Audit projects covering areas i.e. risk management, change management, logical & physical access security, incident management, database and backup management (ITGC Testing), security governance, policies and procedures.
• Identifying control weaknesses and any mitigating controls, and performance gaps compared to industry leading practice.
• Prepare audit workpapers and documenting the results of assigned activities.
• Help facilitate annual external audits (Client driven and SOC 1 / SOC 2)
• Evaluating third party vendors from security and risk perspective

What you’ll need:

• Tech or B.E (CS/IT/EEE/ECE) & BCA / BSc Comp Sc with 0-2 years of experience with Big 4 firms or with industry
• Understanding of SDLC processes/ Technology risk/Information Security/Cloud Computing concepts and familiarity with general AWS services
• Familiarity with GitLab and SDLC controls
• Working level knowledge of AWS platform, with a focus on the roles, architecture and functionalities in relation to ITGC controls / SOC 2 TSCs (Security, Confidentiality, availability, and processing integrity) and respective controls.
• Understanding of Database, Network, Active Directory, Linux, Version controls system, MS Office productivity suites (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint) etc.
• Demonstrated ability and commitment to continuous improvement and to proactively learn new processes.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently and as part of a team of IT Professional peers.
• Attention to detail and quality, and the ability to work across teams.
• Strong communication skills, ability to advocate & influence multiple stakeholders,

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.