SHANTNU VERMA
Hedge Fund Operations | Trade Support, Clearing And Settlement | Middle Office & Post-Trade Operations
New Delhi,UP
Summary
Finance professional with deep expertise in hedge fund accounting and post-trade operations across equities, fixed income, derivatives and OTC products. Proven in driving accurate reconciliations and settlements, reducing breaks and accelerating month-end close. Known for delivering automation-led process improvements that strengthen risk controls, streamline workflows and ensure timely, high-quality outcomes for stakeholders.
Overview
5
5
years of professional experience
Work History
Manager - Trade Accounting & Operations
Arcesium
Gurgaon, India
01.2026 - Current
- Spearheaded the onboarding of a new multi-billion-dollar fund for the client.
- T+1 Transition: Directed cross-functional teams to strengthen broker file integrity and automate workflows, ensuring Rule 15c6-2 compliance, improving exception management, and delivering a 0.5 FTE efficiency gain.
- Effectively manage FO stakeholders across different regions by actively engaging traders in dialogue, and making it a personal habit to fully understand assigned books, trading strategies, P&L, and balance sheet drivers and risks.
Senior Analyst - Trade Accounting & Operations
Arcesium
Gurugram
01.2023 - 12.2025
- Managed timely trade settlements with a daily trade volume of over 100,000 across all regions, dealing with multiple asset classes such as Equities, Fixed Income, REPO, FX, ETFs, Futures, and Options, with efficiency.
- Effectively manage FO stakeholders across different regions by actively engaging traders in dialogue, and make it a personal habit to fully understand the assigned books or trading strategies, P&L, and balance sheet drivers and risks.
- Managed daily fund and trade settlement operations, reconciliations, and P&L reporting for clients across both global markets.
- Technology & Workflow Integration: Led cross-functional implementation of DTCC CTM, Traiana, MarketAxess, and Bonds.com, establishing governance controls, and driving system adoption to achieve a 50% improvement in matching efficiency, and strengthen operational resilience.
- Experienced in working on multiple asset servicing events, such as corporate actions, devolvement of futures and options lifecycle, and many more events across all major markets, demonstrating expertise in post-trade operations, regulatory compliance, and multi-market infrastructure management.
- Worked as a POC for my client to assist Mid-year and Year end audits conducted by Fund Admin and Statutory Auditor.
- Accountable for daily trade, position, swap, cash, FX, and admin reconciliation against prime brokers, custodians, and administrators.
- Trained 15 new resources, devoting close to 800 hours of training, and setting up expectations for deliverables to maximize team knowledge and productivity by monitoring and directing their work on a daily basis.
Analyst - Trade Accounting & Operations
Arcesium
Gurugram
05.2021 - 01.2023
- Owned daily reconciliations (cash, positions, swaps, FX, admin) against brokers/custodians; achieved >98% STP rate.
- Executed lifecycle events (corporate actions, futures/options devolvement) with minimal operational lead time.
- Executing trade novation to migrate the trade from one counterparty to another, to reduce the bilateral holdings in FX trading.
- Supported trading desks by onboarding executing and prime brokers, including handling KYC processes, and resolving legal or compliance challenges.
- Created comprehensive DTPs (Detailed Process Documents) to standardize workflows and reduce training time.
Education
MBA - Finance
Symbiosis Center For Management And Human Resource
Pune 04.2001 -
Bachelor's in Technology - Computer Science
Bharati Vidhyapeeth’s College of Engineering
Delhi 04.2001 -
Skills
- Programming Languages: Python, SQL, C/C
- Settlement Platforms- BNY NEXEN Portal – NEXEN, DTCC Portal (CTM, TradeSuite), Traiana, MarketAxess
- Microsoft Office: Excel, Power-BI, Word, PowerPoint
- Trade settlement
- Reconciliation
- Stakeholder Management
- Data structuring and analysis
- Teamwork
- Leadership
- Adaptability
- Process Optimization
- PNL Attribution
- Bloomberg
- Fund accounting
Accomplishments
- SPACs/PIPE Deals : Established end-to-end operational setup for private deals targeted by the trading desk, coordinating with legal counsel and SPAC agencies to ensure seamless trading of unrestricted shares.
- Trade Novation : Executing trade novation to migrate the trade from one counterparty to another, to reduce the bilateral holdings in FX trading.
- T+1 Transition : Enhanced broker files, automated workflows, and reduced allocation timing issues saving 0.5 FTE.
- Fund Onboarding (~$3-5B AUM) : Set up multi-agreement accounts, SSIs, reconciliation files, FX trading limits, and broker connectivity.
- Process Automation : Delivered ~1.5 FTE efficiency via Python scripts; built secure distribution tool integrated with Outlook.
Timeline
Manager - Trade Accounting & Operations
Arcesium
01.2026 - Current
Senior Analyst - Trade Accounting & Operations
Arcesium
01.2023 - 12.2025
Analyst - Trade Accounting & Operations
Arcesium
05.2021 - 01.2023
MBA - Finance
Symbiosis Center For Management And Human Resource
04.2001 -
Bachelor's in Technology - Computer Science
Bharati Vidhyapeeth’s College of Engineering
04.2001 -