Shibalik Dey Sarkar

Shibalik Dey Sarkar

CFA Charterholder and multi-domain finance professional with 7+ years in a dynamic global fintech, anchoring P&L, valuation and NAV for $15-30B portfolios of global hedge fund, private equity and private credit clients. Partnered with product and engineering teams on Aquata®, now Arcesium's flagship data platform serving the investments industry, and developed critical systems that secured at-risk client retention; advised C-suite stakeholders. Led intercontinental teams across India, US and UK driving AUM growth and firm ARR expansion.

Work Experience:

7 Years

Industry:

Banking Financial Services and Insurance (BFSI) | Consulting | Technology

Function:

Consulting & Strategy | Finance | Product Management

Work Experience

Arcesium (Global fintech powering AI-driven investment data operations) | Bengaluru

Manager - Product Control

  • Delivered a 6-month platform transition for an at-risk $9B private credit client after the prior vendor pulled its accounting engine, leading a 7-member team across India, the US and the UK; held daily P&L to 99% of trading days across 2M loan positions and preserved a multi-million-dollar revenue relationship.
  • Anchored the Product Control SME workstream on the foundational build of Aquata®, Arcesium's flagship data platform, defining business logic for alternative-loan workflows and anchoring UAT cycles with product and engineering; the platform was commercialised across the segment, contributing materially to firm ARR expansion.
  • Secured $3M of additional annual contracted revenue by co-authoring a 4-workstream growth proposal with the engagement director, taking the flagship private credit relationship from pure P&L production into NAV oversight, treasury and regulatory reporting; grew the engagement footprint 35% in a year.
  • Engineered a unified transaction reconciliation framework with automated break categorisation for a $22B private credit portfolio spanning alternative loans, equity TRS and OTC swaps across the US, UK and Singapore; cut reconciliation time 45% to 3 hours and strengthened valuation policy compliance.
  • Built the business case for an automation programme across 12 manual workflows spanning loan servicer processing, swap notional resets, F&O margin calls and repo accruals; modelled a sub-4-month payback on a $200K build, won leadership funding and ran the phased rollout across 3 quarters.

Senior Analyst

  • Re-engineered the monthly NAV close for a $9B private credit fund by mapping 60+ tasks across product control, fund admin, trading, treasury and tax and eliminating 12 redundant handoffs; compressed the close from 8 to 5 business days in 4 months and held it through 2 audit cycles.
  • Designed a Python exception management dashboard with Arcesium engineering for multi-asset breaks across equity swaps, repos and F&O, defining the business logic, categorization rules and UAT cycles; retired 3 manual trackers, cut daily review time by 90 minutes and surfaced 6 systemic issues for remediation at source.
  • Directed the operational response to a market dislocation on a $7B credit and equity book, running intraday valuation reviews and collateral coordination with prime brokers across a 4-week stress period; held daily NAV with zero P&L breaks; and authored 12 situation memos read by the client's CFO.
  • Streamlined 30+ heterogeneous loan servicer file formats into a single ingestion model for a 2M-loan private credit portfolio, partnering with product and engineering on schema design and validation rules; cut daily processing by 3 hours and seeded the platform's standard ingestion library across 4 onboardings.
  • Spearheaded the engagement's migration onto a new pricing vendor for $5B of OTC derivatives, mapping 40+ instrument types and building a parallel-run validation framework with engineering; closed 3 weeks of dual-feed reconciliation with zero pricing breaks, which 3 later vendor migrations reused.

Analyst

  • Modelled daily six-factor P&L attribution on a $5B long-short equity, F&O and fixed income book, tracing an $800K residual to corporate-action timing; drove a fix that cut monthly unexplained P&L 80% as the team's new standard.
  • Diagnosed a $3.5M latent mismark from stale OTC pricing feeds on an $11B hedge fund book during routine variance review; escalated to the Head of Controllers and drove an engineering fix that averted 2 NAV restatements and cut daily exceptions by 60%.
  • Uncovered a credit spread modelling error understating marks by $2M+ over 3 months while benchmarking internal pricing against counterparty marks on a $4B derivatives book; partnered with the valuation team on a policy revision that cut month-end variance 35% ahead of committee sign-off.

KPMG (Big Four global professional services firm) | Gurugram

Associate Consultant - Corporate Finance - M&A

  • Accelerated M&A target screening by building 12+ company profiles and sector research packs across 3 industries, enabling senior
  • bankers to shortlist acquisition candidates faster.
  • Built valuation ranges for client deliverables by running comparable-company and precedent-transaction analyses on 30+ listed peers,
  • benchmarking EV/EBITDA and P/E multiples.

ICA Infotech (India's leading vocational accounting and finance institute) | Kolkata

FP&A Associate - Finance

  • Cut monthly forecast error (MAPE) from 9% to 5% by building a driver-based revenue and expense model across 5 business units,
  • delivering the FP&A pack by T+3 with 98% on-time performance.
Accomplishments
  • 1. Promoted to Manager 25% ahead of the standard track in 2024, in recognition of leading the onboarding of a key multi-billion-dollar hedge fund client.
  • 2. Awarded a Spot Award (2024) for exceptional service delivery
  • 3. Awarded 'Think Beyond' Award (2022) under process hack category in Arcesium's firm-wide Hackathon (2022)
Education
  • CFA Charter holder, CFA Institute, United States
  • PGDM (Finance and Data Analytics), Lal Bahadur Shastri Institute Of Management, New Delhi
  • BCom Honours (Accounting and Finance), University Of Calcutta, Kolkata
Certification
  • CFA Charter holder, CFA Institute
  • Alteryx Bootcamp, Udemy
  • Tableau 2020 A-Z: Hands-On Tableau Training for Data Science, Udemy
Extra-curricular
  • Led CSR drives at Arcesium across NGO partnerships and youth mentoring with 75+ volunteers. (2019–2026)