Analyst – Financial Operations
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 WILL 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 high-
quality 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, year-
over-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 processes—such 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 ARE LOOKING FOR:
The ideal candidate should hold-
Basic qualifications:
