Corporate Trust Officer

Location: Montreal, Canada (Hybrid)

In this position, you’ll be based in the Montreal office for a minimum of three days a week, with the flexibility to work from home for some of your working week. Find out more about our flexible work culture at computershare.com/flex.    

We give you a world of potential 

The Corporate Trust Officer (Relationship Manager III) manages and administers a portfolio of client accounts and negotiates new trusteeship and customized agency accounts, ensuring Computershare's interests are protected from risk and providing a high level of service to corporate clients, their legal counsel and investors. The Corporate Trust Officer executes documents committing Computershare to the terms and conditions contained therein.

A role you will love

In this key role for our business, you will primarily be responsible for the following:

• Negotiate the terms of a variety of trust and non-trust agreements of varying complexity under which Computershare will assume both contractual and fiduciary obligations, assess degree of associated risk and make recommendations on acceptability of new business and fees to be charged;
• Review and evaluate all legal documentation on corporate financing and on other transactions to ensure they are in forms that meet, and can be administered to meet, standards adequate for the protection of Computershare;
• Analyze and interpret agreements to set up internal operation of file and provide administrative direction to administrators and/or related departments.  Ensure/monitor compliance with all portfolio agreements by Computershare and clients;
• Prepare and execute correspondence to clients, their legal counsel or investors.
• Maintain necessary standards of knowledge and expertise in applicable areas of law, commerce, corporate finance and securities markets as well as internal policies and procedures.

What will you bring to the role?

To excel in this role, it is expected that you will possess much of the following experience:

Required:

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in French and English are required
• University Degree (law, business, commerce, or finance major) required
• Minimum 1 year experience as articled student /or practicing lawyer / or notary or 3-5 years’ experience in financial, corporate/commercial or securities industry at an intermediate or professional level

Preferred:

• LL.B. and admission to a provincial Bar or the Chambre des notaires du Québec
• Canadian Securities Course or other Securities Industry training would be an asset
• Corporate Trust Program (Trust Institute, ICB) would be an asset

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