2022 - Corporate Actions Analyst - NCRAM - NYC
Company:
Nomura Corporate Research and Asset Management Inc. (“NCRAM”)
Description of Business:
NCRAM is a registered investment advisor managing approximately $31 billion in fixed income assets including high yield bonds, leveraged loans, emerging markets and distressed issues.
Position: This position is within NCRAM’s High Yield Operations Group
Position Summary:
This position provides overall support to the High Yield investment team with respect to voluntary corporate actions
Minimum Requirements:
- 1+ years corporate actions experience
- Bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance. (GPA: 3.0 or better)
- Proficient in Microsoft Office Excel
- Must be detail oriented and have great analytical skills
- Motivated and eager to work in an asset management environment with very manual processes
- Ability to work in a team environment.
- Excellent telephone, organizational, and interpersonal skills
- Written and verbal communication skills must be very strong
Supervisory Responsibilities:
None
Independence of Operations:
This position will report to the Supervisor in Corporate Actions. All duties will be performed in accordance with established policies and procedures
Job Functions:
- Corporate Actions management – tracking of internal and external deadlines
- Corporate Actions processing – making elections according to the High Yield investment team’s advice and completing any supplemental documentation, where required
- Liaising with clients and custodians to ensure all elections are received and processed in a timely manner
- Preparing a supervisory checklist/event packet for review and sign off by a Supervisor
- Proxy Voting analysis and processing
- Loan amendments processing
- Physical check and security deposit with custodians
- Facilitate communication between front and back offices
- Facilitate communication between front office and Compliance
- Review and resolve corporate action reconciliation breaks (custody positions, cash, etc.) on a daily/monthly basis
- Assist in resolving settlement issues between back office, brokers and custodians stemming from corporate actions
- Scanning and filing/organizing data for audit
- Perform ad-hoc requests
Compensation:
Commensurate with responsibilities and flexible depending on experience