The D. E. Shaw group is a global investment and technology development firm with more than $85 billion in investment capital as of December 1, 2025, and offices in North America, Europe, and Asia. Since our founding in 1988, our firm has earned an international reputation for successful investing based on innovation, careful risk management, and the quality and depth of our staff. We have a significant presence in the world's capital markets, investing in a wide range of companies and financial instruments in both developed and developing economies. We have offices in India based out of Hyderabad, Gurugram and Bengaluru.
WHAT YOU'LL DO DAY-TO-DAY:
The Financial Operations group is an integral part of our global operations. If hired, you will support one or more of the functions mentioned below.
Compliance - The Compliance group is responsible for implementing and enforcing policies and procedures across multiple regulatory requirements, where you will be assisting front office trading desks by conducting thorough research on the firm's positions and applicable regulations for each asset class across jurisdictions through the deployment of advanced data analytics and data visualization techniques like statistical analysis, predictive modelling, clustering, etc. on tools like Power BI, and others. You will perform regulatory filing obligations, requiring complex quantitative and qualitative analysis of the firm's short position and long ownership reports across US, UK, EU, Japan, etc. jurisdictions, and in monitoring and implementing controls designed to ensure compliance with global regulations by deploying various data analytics and visualization techniques. You will be conducting thorough analysis on the fundamental research data collected by the trading groups through their interactions with external industry experts/consultants around various market sectors to avoid potential trading while in possession of material non-public information. You will be assisting with long-term projects to maintain the firm's high standards of compliance with new and existing regulations.
Pricing - The Pricing Team is a unit of DESCO's Finance and Operations Department and is responsible for the valuation of private investments and oversight of valuation of non-private investments performed by Arcesium LLC, an affiliate of the firm. The role also involves working closely with the various Front Office teams. In this role, you will play a key part in supporting the accurate valuation of a wide range of financial instruments, including equity, bonds, asset backed securities, interest rate swaps, swaptions, and both exchange traded and over-the-counter derivatives. You will be primarily responsible for overseeing the daily mark-to-market processes, reconciling internal prices with external market data, and identifying and analyzing pricing discrepancies. You will also help develop pricing controls, implement logic to flag anomalies, and support the creation of tools and processes to ensure data integrity and fair valuation practices. Additionally, you will be responsible for building, updating, and maintaining the valuation models to value private equity and credit investments, which entails knowledge of investments, industry research and analysis of the company's portfolio fundamentals, and performing in-depth competitor analysis. Furthermore, you will facilitate valuation reviews by third parties (like CITCO and Kroll) and auditors (like EY) of the positions held by DESCO; creating summaries highlighting significant changes/events and industry analyses to be presented to the valuations committees for their review.
Expense Reporting The team provides senior management with highquality analytical reports and detailed insights on firm-wide expenses. Core responsibilities include supporting the firm's monthly expense and time-allocation processes, contributing to the annual budgeting and forecasting cycle, and partnering on technology initiatives to streamline, automate, and enhance key expense-related workflows. As part of the team, you will work closely with the Office of the COO, the CFO, and business unit heads to prepare comprehensive expense reporting packages, including analyses of actual versus budgeted spend, yearover-year expense trends, firm-wide budgets, and variance commentary that highlights key drivers and deviations. You will also own and manage ad-hoc expense-related analyses and requests from senior management and key stakeholders, including Investor Relations, Corporate Development, Tax, and Legal & Compliance. Additionally, you will take ownership of recurring core processessuch as the monthly expense allocation cycle, year-end activities, and audit support, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and on-time delivery. You will also be responsible for driving technology projects to build tools for reporting and analysis, streamline workflows, and improve the user experience. Furthermore, you will understand and analyze changes in the firm's businesses, such as expense chargeability to investors and new funds/businesses; and incorporate these changes into the reporting infrastructure (and subsequent reports).
WHO WE'RE LOOKING FOR:
Basic qualifications:
- An MBA degree from a reputed college with 0 to 2 years of work experience in the Financial Services industry
- Exceptional attention to detail, advanced proficiency in MS Excel, and well-developed analytical skills, along with familiarity with analytical and visualization tools such as Power BI or Tableau
- Effective written and verbal communication skills to interact successfully with senior management
Interested candidates can apply through our website: https://www.deshawindia.com/recruit/jobs/Adv/Link/AnlSnrAlFinOpJan26
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The Firm offers excellent benefits, a casual, collegial working environment, and an attractive compensation package. For further information about our recruitment process, including how applicant data will be processed, please visit https://www.deshawindia.com/careers
Members of the D. E. Shaw group do not discriminate in employment matters on the basis of sex, race, colour, caste, creed, religion, pregnancy, national origin, age, military service eligibility, veteran status, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, or any other protected class.
