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        Analyst - Financial Operations

        Financial Operations
        Hyderabad, Bengaluru or Gurugram

        The D. E. Shaw group is a global investment and technology development firm with more than $65 billion in investment capital as of March 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.

        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; 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; 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; Assisting with long-term projects to maintain the firm’s high standards of compliance with new and existing regulations.

        Financial and Regulatory Reporting/Management Company Accounting - In this role, you will collaborate with a number of senior stakeholders at the time of new fund launches, assist in setting up of complex fund structures and transactions, conduct historical as well as projected analyses of fund performance, technical accounting analysis for complex financial instruments, and handle bespoke requests from various internal and external stakeholders. You will work closely with the office of the Chief Operating Officer (COO), the Chief Financial Officer (CFO), business unit (BU) heads, government regulators, and portfolio managers to provide key performance metrics to facilitate effective decision-making through insightful reporting, analyses, and recommendations within the MCA team. This involves P&L analysis, expense allocation, budgeting, cash management, financial and regulatory reporting, finalization of audits for global management company entities. Additionally, the above roles will involve handling change management processes while understanding and analyzing changes in the firm’s businesses and incorporating these changes into the firm’s financial reporting infrastructure. Furthermore, you will drive technology projects to develop reporting and analysis tools (including Power BI, Power Query and Alteryx), streamline workflows, and enhance user experience. Finally, you will also be involved in staying abreast of developments in technical accounting, primarily US GAAP, UK GAAP, and HK GAAP to provide accounting guidance, adopt new accounting standards, and maintain the firm's accounting policy manual.

        Tax - In this role, the candidate will be required to prepare, review, and file D. E. Shaw’s hedge Investment funds’ income tax returns and issue annual tax information (Sch. K-1s) to investors. They will need to review tax information to be included in various regulatory filings (tax audits, state tax returns, etc.) and interact with D. E. Shaw’s various financial operations teams and the tax planning team. They will be required to prepare, review, and issue quarterly investor tax estimate statements. They will need to compute funds’ taxable income calculations/allocation for various D. E. Shaw’s hedge funds, as well as for investors, which includes analyzing book to tax differences, tax depreciation analysis, and various taxable income allocation methodologies. They will be expected to periodically compute various state taxes; pay state tax authorities, and address to tax notices. They will also need to periodically present D. E. Shaw’s hedge funds’ taxable income analysis to senior management and address queries raised by investors on their taxable income calculations.

        Who we’re looking for

        Basic qualifications:

        • A CA (Chartered Accountancy) degree with 0 to 3 years of work experience in the Financial Services industry, or a large audit firm

        At the D. E. Shaw group, we believe the diversity of our employees is core to our strength and success. We are committed to supporting our people in work and in life, which is why we offer benefits such as a family planning and surrogacy program and a charitable gift match to all full-time employees.

        Additionally, our staff-led affinity groups are pillars of our community, helping to celebrate diversity, promote leadership and development opportunities, and facilitate inclusive mentorship. Members and allies organize a wide range of educational and social programming, from expert talks to film festivals.

        Candidates with relevant experience looking to restart their careers after a break are encouraged to apply for this position.

        The members of the D. E. Shaw group 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, caregiver status, or any other category protected by law. We are committed to the principles of diversity, equity, and inclusion, and are eager to hear from individuals having a wide range of backgrounds and personal characteristics.

        Candidates who are residents of California (any such candidate, a “California Resident”) should click here for our CCPA Recruitment Personal Information Privacy Notice.

        The D. E. Shaw group may collect, use, hold, transfer, and process candidates' resumes and associated information (including personal information contained therein) for purposes reasonably related to their application, including without limitation: review and management of employment applications and supporting materials; administration and management of offers to and communication with candidates; and administration, management, and improvement of the recruiting operations of the D. E. Shaw group; and/or where reasonably required in connection with a proposed sale, spin-out, reorganization, or outsourcing of all or some of the business of the D. E. Shaw group. The D. E. Shaw group will not use such information for purposes unrelated to the foregoing, such as direct marketing of third-party products to candidates, without candidate consent. As used herein, the term "personal information" is meant to broadly describe information identifying or relating to a specific individual; it is intended to encompass "personal data," "sensitive personal data," and "personally identifiable information" and similar terms, as those terms are defined by law in the jurisdictions in which the D. E. Shaw group operates.

        The D. E. Shaw group may transfer such personal information within and outside the country and jurisdiction of the locations where the D. E. Shaw group maintains offices, to other D. E. Shaw group affiliates, to government and regulatory authorities, and to third parties which provide or may provide support and/or services to the D. E. Shaw group and for the purposes set forth above. The persons who may have access to this personal information are other employees of the D. E. Shaw group, in connection with the performance of their duties of employment, and the other parties listed above, in connection with the business of the D. E. Shaw group. (Of course, candidates will be considered for employment opportunities only in those countries in which they express interest.)

        The D. E. Shaw group will use reasonable care to maintain the confidentiality of personal information (including appropriate technical measures against unauthorized or unlawful processing and against accidental loss or destruction of, or damage to, such information) and will retain such data as required by applicable law or regulation. Candidates have the right to request access to, and correction of, their personal information in accordance with applicable law; any such request should be submitted to recruiting.india@deshaw.com. Candidates who have submitted a resume to the D. E. Shaw group and do not wish to proceed with their applications should email cvwithdraw@deshaw.com. Personal information of candidates who have been the subject of background checks may have been transferred in accordance with applicable regulations, and any concerns with such transfers should be submitted to backgroundcheck-inquiries@deshaw.com.

        The D. E. Shaw group may retain candidates’ information for prospective recruiting activities, including sourcing candidates for employment opportunities and for organizing events with prospective candidates, in accordance with our internal data retention procedures. Candidates who do not agree to such future use should email recruiting-inquiries@deshaw.com.

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