Analyst, Corporate Actions
About The Position
The Analyst, Corporate Actions role sits within Man Group’s Numeric Investment Operations team and manages corporate actions across business lines. The role oversees the full lifecycle of events and partners closely with front office teams, custodians, and other external vendors. It supports processing mandatory and voluntary corporate actions and associated income, validates event information, communicates event details and obtains elections, monitors event progress and reconciles entitlements, and maintains operational controls and records. The analyst also responds to queries, contributes to process improvements, supports implementation of a new corporate actions platform, and maintains process documentation while developing knowledge of event types, instruments, and market practices.
Requirements
- Approximately 0–2 years of relevant experience in corporate actions or asset servicing.
- Working understanding of the corporate action lifecycle, including mandatory and voluntary events, elections, entitlements, and reconciliation.
- Awareness of the roles of prime brokers, custodians, and other parties involved in corporate action processing.
- Strong attention to detail and a control-focused approach, with the ability to prioritize competing deadlines.
- Clear written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain event information to different stakeholders.
- Proactive approach to investigating discrepancies, resolving queries, and escalating issues appropriately.
- Expertise using Excel and operational systems.
- Collaborative approach and willingness to develop knowledge across investment strategies, asset classes, and global markets.
Nice To Haves
- Relevant experience ideally gained within an asset manager, hedge fund, prime broker, or custodian.
- Interest in technology, automation, and process improvement.
Responsibilities
- Support processing of mandatory and voluntary corporate actions and associated income, ensuring accuracy and adherence to market and internal deadlines.
- Review and validate event details received from prime brokers, custodians, and data providers, investigating discrepancies as needed.
- Communicate event information to investment and trading teams, obtain elections, and submit instructions within agreed deadlines.
- Monitor event progress, reconcile cash and stock entitlements, and investigate outstanding items with internal teams and external counterparties.
- Perform daily operational processes and controls, maintain accurate records, and promptly escalate exceptions, risks, and time-sensitive issues.
- Respond to corporate action queries and work with colleagues to investigate and resolve issues.
- Contribute to process improvements that strengthen controls, reduce manual activity, and improve efficiency.
- Support implementation of a new corporate actions platform through testing, data validation, and issue tracking.
- Maintain process documentation and develop knowledge of different event types, instruments, and market practices.
Benefits
- Discretionary bonus.
- Professional development opportunities.
- Flexible working arrangements.
- Two annual paid 'Mankind' days for community volunteering.
- Competitive holiday entitlements.
- Pension/401k.
- Life and long-term disability coverage.
- Group sick pay.
- Enhanced parental leave.
- Long-service leave.
- Depending on location, private medical coverage, discounted gym membership options, and pet insurance.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
