Corporate Actions & Income Analyst (Contract)

Role

This role within the team will give the potential candidate exposure to all areas of the income team, processing the entire lifecycle of equity and fixed income instruments.

Key Responsibilities

The key responsibilities are:

1. Ensure all daily tasks are completed in line with the departments procedures. This includes processing of Ex date / record date and pay date reconciliation.
2. Capture, reconcile and resolve aged claims with our counterparties
3. Escalate any issues to management when required
4. Identifying short sales that leave the organization exposed and rectifying the depot.
5. Be involved in improving the team, identifying gaps in control or issues in processing
6. Work with project team to improve processes.
7. Work with the Tax reclaim team to post tax claims to the relevant desk
8. Identify PNL for the trading desk and work with the traders to post
9. Work with our offsite teams to help improve the process and clear aged items
10. Also there is some scope to help the Corporate actions Re-org team with some mandatory corporate actions processing for items such as full redemptions

Person Specification

The following skills and experience are preferred but not all are essential for this role:

1. Extensive experience of working in an Asset servicing environment.
2. Excellent market knowledge of Income processing of Fixed Income and Equity products.
3. Good working knowledge around partial and full redemptions
4. Good working knowledge around short sales, how to detect and resolve.
5. Good communication skills as the role will require contact with clients, agents, and traders.
6. Ability to work to tight deadlines and cope within a pressurized environment.
7. Strong Attention to detail skills
8. Easyway system knowledge
9. Knowledge of Repo/Lending activity
10. Broadridge systems an advantage (Gloss / BPS)
11. Good reconciliation Skills
12. Previous broker dealer environment experience.
13. Working knowledge of CASS rules
14. Strong PC literacy and experience in MS packages