Senior Corporate Actions Administrator

Senior Corporate Actions Administrator Location: Edinburgh THE COMPANYA leading Investment Management group are looking for a Senior Corporate Actions & Income Administrator to join a team who have a wealth of experience. This is a progressive organisation offering an excellent career path in an expanding business.EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS REQUIREDIn order to be considered for this role, you should meet the following criteria:Have 5 years of Corporate Actions experienceExperience of Dividends processingControlsProxy Voting THE ROLEReporting to Operations Manager, you will join a proactive operations departmentResponsibilities include:-Corporate Action Announcements – Review and analyze new / updated Corporate Action announcements – Maintain and review corporate action diary DutiesProcessing – Process / authorize Corporate Actions – Support / authorization of Corporate Action Instructions with custodians. – Processing of monthly/quarterly cash distribution, including accumulation payments to clients – Processing of client interest calculations. – Maintain, review, complete sale order for fractional shares resulting from Corporate Actions for pooled positions. – Process Pooled daily Dividends (UK & Intl), Income cash payments & authorize daily Dividend reconciliations. DutiesControls – Daily / weekly checks and controls – month end checks for static data on Dividends (rates, yields etc…) for valuation purposes. – Post reconciliation of Corporate Actions – Ensure income standing instructions are in place for new segregated clients. – Check and review in-house fund distributions – Checking end of day cash movements on client portfolios within proprietary system. DutiesProxy Voting – Process adhoc Proxy Voting requests and maintain reports – Ensure Proxy account opening with vendorWeekly monitoring of queries, chasing Custodians where necessary DutiesValidation of monthly, quarterly, annual tax vouchers. DutiesMaintain and update department procedures.