Job Description

Story Behind the Need:

• Reason for request/why opened: Back-fill for team member who is scheduled to be away for over 6 months.
• Scope of Project: Managing daily BAU processing
• Team Size/Culture: 5 people / Culture of department: Inclusive environment, collaborative

Candidate Profile Details:

• Degree/Certifications Required: No
• Years of Overall Experience: 2-3 years' experience
• Ideal Candidate Background: in Asset Servicing - Corporate Actions and Coupon Processing preferred
• How will performance be measured: SLA's
• Selling Points of Position (CVP): Culture at client, opportunity for perm or extension, networking

Summary Of Day-To-Day Responsibilities:

• Will be responsible for correct and timely processing of corporate action transactions, tax reporting and other functions.
• Play an important role in acting as a direct contact and problem solver for clients and business partners.
• Develop understanding of the Fixed Income Domestic and international market
• Receive all corporate action notifications from custody network, examine and investigate further to ensure accurate and timely entry into corporate action dashboard
• Ensure corporate actions are accurately processed including asset set-up, tax implications and book value adjustments
• Monitor coupon record changes and reconcile income received to custodian records
• Processing mandatory and voluntary Corporate Actions
• Ensure all affected clients and stakeholders are notified on a timely basis
• Managing and resolving exceptions:
• Arising from settlement discrepancies
• Resulting from feed issues that create exceptions
• Develop and maintain working relationships with internal and external partners for the purposes of delivering optimal customer service, identify, recommend and assist in implementing processes/controls/productivity improvements
• Initiate and/or participate in projects -identify test cases, communicate project status and execution of test cases to ensure project objectives are met in a timely manner.
• Assist in analysis, development, testing and implementation of operating and process improvements
• Ensure written procedures of new/current process are captured and updated routinely.
• Execute on ad-hoc non-routine requests
• Ensure all escalation policies are observed under the client policy
• Provide a high level of service in assisting process partners to identify, locate and resolve differences.

MUST-HAVE Hard Skills:

• 2-3 years Capital Markets Operations
• Sound knowledge of Fixed Income market - Asset servicing Corporate Actions, coupon processing and Settlements strongly preferred
• Ability to meet SLA's
• Advance knowledge of MS suite of software applications
• Settlements and Clearing and Servicing - 2 to 3 years

Soft Skills:

• Good communication skills (verbal/written)
• Good interpersonal skills
• Team player skills

Nice-To-Have:

• Excel - VBA
• Hands-on experience of Bloomberg, Reuters and other data products.
• hands on experience DTC (US depository) / CDS (Canadian depository)

Job Details
13650
Contract
7 months
Toronto
29.00 CAD
Recruiter
Varun Puggal

Skills Required