Asset servicing platform for institutional investors and fund managers
CACEIS is a €5+ trillion AUM custodian and fund administrator for institutional clients, jointly owned by Crédit Agricole and Santander. The hiring profile reveals operational scale pressures: finance and ops dominate (174 of 288 open roles), while engineering and data remain thin (25 combined), and the pain-point cluster (scalability, standardized processes, client onboarding, SLA deadlines) points to legacy infrastructure strain. The tech stack confirms this — heavy Excel/VBA/Oracle/JBoss backbone with early adoption of Python, Power BI, and Node.js — suggesting incremental modernization rather than platform overhaul.
Notable leadership hires: Unit Head, Project Lead HR, Project Lead, Head of Unit
CACEIS provides end-to-end asset servicing to asset managers, pension funds, and institutional investors across Europe, the Americas, and Asia. Core services span execution, custody, clearing, fund administration, depositary functions, securities lending, and middle-office outsourcing. The group manages over €5 trillion in assets under custody and €3.4 trillion in assets under administration as of March 2024. Operations are spread across multiple geographies with significant headcount in finance, operations, and legal roles, reflecting the compliance-heavy and client-intensive nature of institutional asset servicing.
As of March 2024, CACEIS holds over €5 trillion in assets under custody and over €3.4 trillion in assets under administration.
Core stack includes Excel, VBA, Oracle, JBoss, SQL, Java, and Bloomberg. The company is adopting Python, Node.js, Power BI, and Spring Boot while replacing SAS, Maven, Git, Jenkins, and Ansible.
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