Senior Corporate Actions Specialist
Job Title: Senior Corporate Actions Specialist
Location: Jersey City (hybrid)
Salary: $140k - $180k + Bonus
Summary:
We're partnering with a top-tier universal bank and financial services firm seeking a Senior Corporate Actions Specialist to join its Global Banking Technology and Operations Unit. In this role, you'll manage operational, administrative, and financial processes driven by Equity and Fixed Income business lines, while leading corporate action initiatives aimed at enhancing the firm's prime brokerage platform. The ideal candidate will bring strong market expertise and a proven track record in building corporate actions infrastructure tailored to broker-dealer operations.
In this role you will be responsible for:
- Lead the design, communication, and implementation of scalable Corporate Action processes to support growth, partnering with support teams on automation, simplification, and system testing.
- Oversee Mandatory Corporate Action events managed by offshore teams, ensuring compliance with guidelines in a dynamic business environment.
- Manage Voluntary Corporate Action events, ensuring timely arbitration and communication between internal and external stakeholders.
- Act as liaison between internal teams and service providers, coordinating issue resolution and reporting KPIs on Corporate Actions, aged items, and other operational metrics.
- Support account monitoring and validation; identify root causes of operational breaks and drive corrective actions with stakeholders.
- Escalate issues and share best practices and competitive insights with business partners and local management.
- Provide end-to-end SME support on Corporate Event operations.
- Contribute to the onboarding and integration of new applications.
The ideal candidate will have the following qualifications and skills:
- 10 + YOE in corporate actions for both equity and fixed income securities
- Industry knowledge in Fixed Income/ Equity settlements and trade support
- Proven background on IT infrastructure improvements as it relates to corporate actions
- Technical skills: Info Mosaic, DTCC customer portal, Excel, Shadow
- Series 99
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