Industrial Trainee - Financial Operations

The D. E. Shaw group is a global investment and technology development firm with more than $90 billion in investment capital as of March 1, 2026, 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 are looking for a resourceful candidate to join our Financial Operations group, based out of the firm’s Hyderabad office. The Financial Operations (FinOp) group forms part of our global operations and provides comprehensive financial, operational, and analytical support across investment activities. The group plays a critical role across the entire trade lifecycle, ensuring robust financial control, transparency, and operational resilience. FinOp teams leverage data science, automation, and advanced analytics to generate insights, enhance decision making, reduce risk, and deliver scalable solutions that support firm’s growing and evolving business needs.

WHAT YOU'LL DO DAY-TO-DAY:

In this role, you will collaborate with a number of senior stakeholders at the time of new fund launches, assist in setting up 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.

WHO WE’RE LOOKING FOR:

The ideal candidate should hold:

Basic qualifications:

• CA Inter/IPCC cleared in the first or second attempt, along with at least 1 year of articleship experience
• The ability to uphold high standards, analyze rigorously, communicate clearly and concisely, thrive on collaboration, and should demonstrate a high degree of intellectual curiosity
• High motivation and be an individual who can handle high levels of ownership in the respective areas of operation while being comfortable functioning in an agile environment that entails timebound, high-quality deliverables

Preferred Qualifications:

• Knowledge of business intelligence tools, along with an understanding of global accounting frameworks

Interested candidates can apply through our website:

https://www.deshawindia.com/recruit/jobs/Ads/Link/IndTraineeFinOpJune26

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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.

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