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Core Ops Corporate Actions Analyst

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Capital Group

2mo ago

  • Job
    Full-time
    Mid & Senior Level
  • Business, Operations & Strategy
    Banking & Finance
  • Irvine
  • Quick Apply

AI generated summary

  • You have a relevant degree, corporate action experience, strong analytical and communication skills, and a proactive, detail-oriented approach to managing priorities and improving processes.
  • You will oversee corporate actions processing, ensure accuracy, analyze impacts, communicate with stakeholders, lead projects, and drive continuous improvement initiatives while mentoring associates.

Requirements

  • You have a bachelor’s degree in business, finance, economics or related fields.
  • You have prior corporate action experience in the industry.
  • You have strong analytical skills and working knowledge in investment operations.
  • You demonstrate intellectual curiosity and an analytical mindset.
  • You have strong communication skills and can work with a large and diverse group of business partners and stakeholders across the globe.
  • You are proactive in anticipating challenges and addressing them effectively.
  • You can successfully juggle and execute on competing priorities while bringing exceptional quality and attention to detail to your deliverables.
  • You are strong at identifying, recommending, and participating in continuous improvement activities.
  • You enjoy training and mentoring people, dissecting processes and completing projects.
  • You are a positive role model who others look to for guidance.

Responsibilities

  • Core Production Responsibilities: Plays a key oversight role within a given team to ensure all deliverables are completed accurately and timely, including working with team members and with a wide range of stakeholders to understand issues of all complexities. Specific responsibilities include:
  • Prepares highly complex activity and reviews work (end to end), often requiring manual intervention, and broad upstream and downstream consideration of impacts such as trading, valuation, NAV, and financial reporting. Overall STP processing rate is low, creating high levels of risk/exposure in processing environment.
  • With respect to The Capital System, monitors assigned standard and complex events to ensure instructions are provided to appropriate parties prior to deadline and provides oversight by reviewing instructions submitted by other associates. Anticipates and resolves potential processing issues.
  • Analyzes impact of corporate action events, reaching out to impacted groups for input.
  • Communicates with Investment Group to provide investment options and request recommendations.
  • Executes investment decisions on corporate action events and works with other business units to provide event instructions and verify compliance with guidelines, regulatory rules, tax consequences and other restrictions.
  • Works with necessary teams on the processing of corporate action events that require order entry, eligibility criteria, and Action List rating activity.
  • Leverages relationships and trust with the Investment Group and Trading by soliciting input to improve processes and resolve operational issues.
  • Utilizes experience to answer complex and unusual inquiries from the Investment Groups and Trading.
  • Researches and analyzes issues of all complexity. Assesses impacts and recommends solutions, including determining needs for broader communication and collaboration.
  • Delegates, provides oversight and coaching to other associates on the research and resolution of issues of basic to moderate complexity.
  • Plays an important role in the ongoing maintenance and strengthening of the control environment by identifying the root cause of issues to determine potential controls or process improvements.
  • Analyzes various reports/data and implements appropriate action to resolve exceptions between internal and external systems.
  • Assesses and tracks vendor performance against key performance indicators to ensure adherence to accuracy and timeliness standards as set forth in the service level agreements. Escalates issues to Leads and Managers.
  • Leads the technical training of other associates. Develops training plans for new associates, and provides feedback on associate performance and development needs.
  • Performs additional responsibilities, as needed.
  • Ad hoc or Project Responsibilities: Develops credibility and strong working relationships by partnering and collaborating with other associates, teams, and internal and external stakeholders to develop recommendations for cross functional solutions and enable the launch of new products and services.
  • Projects and Initiatives
  • Leads small to moderately sized projects and/or serves as a team member for large/complex projects.
  • Participates in and drives continuous improvement initiatives within the team (from ideation to implementation) to achieve straight through processing, improve efficiency and effectiveness, and create capacity to focus on more complex and ambiguous issues (e.g., recommendations on process, ways of working, systems, priorities, etc.).
  • Collaborates with leads and management to establish project plan and processes based on defined business initiatives. Sets milestones and target dates, assigns tasks, and allocates resources to ensure timeliness of delivery.
  • Identifies and addresses impacts, and communicates updates to managers and stakeholders.
  • In collaboration with the Lead, applies experience to make recommendations on workload allocation across the team.
  • Interacts and oversees relationships with a variety of internal and external parties (i.e., accountants, consultants, auditors, outsourcing providers) to ensure that questions and issues are addressed using the appropriate level of confidentiality, when necessary.
  • Consults with and provides guidance on operational issues and technical questions.
  • Specific activities could include:
  • Support CG’s investment strategies by developing an understanding of corporate action requirements, assessing process and system impacts, developing solutions, and supporting team and department readiness including participating or leading testing and training.
  • Partner with IT and other teams to design system enhancements, develop testing scenarios, update relevant procedures and processes, and ensure readiness of team to adopt changes, including training.
  • Understand impacts of regulatory requirement changes to team and department operations and systems and actively participate in working groups or project teams to solution.
  • Represent your team in cross functional working groups to enable department and team readiness for the launch of new capabilities, products, and systems.

FAQs

What is the primary role of a Core Ops Corporate Actions Analyst?

The primary role is to perform complex preparation, review the team's deliverables, analyze unexpected variances, and implement solutions while collaborating across stakeholders.

What qualifications are required for this position?

A bachelor's degree in business, finance, economics, or related fields, along with prior corporate action experience and strong analytical skills in investment operations are required.

What skills are important for a Corporate Actions Analyst?

Strong analytical skills, effective communication, proactive problem-solving, and the ability to manage competing priorities while maintaining attention to detail are essential.

Will I be involved in training and mentoring other team members?

Yes, you will play a key role in training and developing other team members, providing oversight and coaching on their work.

Are there opportunities for project involvement in this role?

Yes, you will lead small to moderately sized projects and contribute to larger, complex projects, driving continuous improvement initiatives.

What types of corporate actions will I be overseeing?

You will monitor a range of standard and complex corporate action events, preparing instructions and analyzing their impacts on various business units.

What is the salary range for this role in Orange County?

The base salary range for this position in Orange County is $98,869-$158,190.

Are there bonuses or other compensation included?

Yes, you will be eligible for an individual annual performance bonus, Capital’s annual profitability bonus, and a retirement plan contribution of 15% of your eligible earnings.

How does Capital Group ensure a diverse workplace?

Capital Group is an equal opportunity employer and complies with all laws regarding non-discrimination based on various characteristics, ensuring a diverse and inclusive workplace.

Will I need to work with external stakeholders?

Yes, you will interact and oversee relationships with a variety of internal and external parties, including accountants, consultants, and outsourcing providers.

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Capital Group

Finance
Industry
5001-10,000
Employees
1931
Founded Year

Mission & Purpose

Since 1931, Capital Group, home of American Funds®, has been singularly focused on delivering superior results for long-term investors using high-conviction portfolios, rigorous research and individual accountability. As of December 31, 2021, Capital Group manages more than $2 trillion in equity and fixed income assets for millions of individual and institutional investors. Capital Group is a private firm that employs more than 8,000 associates and has offices in Europe, Asia, Australia and the Americas. For more than 90 years, our goal has remained the same: to improve people’s lives through successful investing. *** We’ve been made aware of an employment scam fraudulently using Capital Group’s name. Please note: Capital Group currently does not offer 100% remote work positions. On average, the interview process can take one to three months to go from resume submission to offer. Financial transactions are never part of the job onboarding process. For your own cyber safety and security, if you suspect fraud, please do not respond to or interact with messages claiming to be from Capital Group.

Benefits

  • Compensation

    In addition to offering a highly competitive base salary, we give two annual bonuses to our associates. The first bonus is based on performance and the second is based on company profitability. These two bonuses, your annual raise and our 15% retirement contribution add up to so much more than a simple paycheck. Year over year, you'll have the opportunity to see your salary not only grow, but grow exponentially.

  • Retirement

    Every year, we put the equivalent of 15% of your salary and bonuses into a retirement account for you. To be clear, that's not money you've chosen to deduct from your paycheck. That's in addition to your paycheck.

  • Life, accident and travel insurance

    We sponsor life insurance and offer additional life insurance, personal accident and business travel insurance as well.

  • Commuter savings

    We offer commuting and/or parking incentives to take public transportation, carpool, walk or cycle to work.