Corporate Actions Consultant (12 Month Contract)

About Northern Trust:

Northern Trust, a Fortune 500 company, is a globally recognized, award-winning financial institution that has been in continuous operation since 1889.

Northern Trust is proud to provide innovative financial services and guidance to the world's most successful individuals, families and institutions by remaining true to our enduring principles of service, expertise and integrity. With more than 130 years of financial experience and over 22,000 partners, we serve the world's most sophisticated clients using leading technology and exceptional service.

Role/ Department:

You'll be working in the ETFs Data Quality Assurance Team in Basel. We are the core process responsible for handling corporate actions events within our administrated investment funds.

The key responsibilities of the role include:

• Usage and maintenance of our dedicated end user application corporate actions tool (COA)
• Creation of corporate actions dossiers including theoretical and effective plausibility checks and closing controls after completed cash- and stock reconciliation with all involved custodian banks
• Daily calculation of ETF files and daily completion of production procedures, analyzing all index constituents changes, valuation and composition considering strict deadlines
• Consultation and researches with our market data vendors SIX Financial Information, Bloomberg, companies web-sites etc.
• Cooperation with NT FA Luxembourg related to corporate actions and entitlement events
• Contact for internal and external auditors for corporate actions queries
• Solving of cash- and stock breaks with all involved custodian banks
• Ensure daily entitlement events processing and claiming of overdue payments
• Identification and posting of taxable value bonus issues via Event Diary
• Support within launches of news investment funds
• Responsible for affected evidence collection related to our Service Organization Control Report
• Creation and consolidation of monthly KPIs and statistics
• Able to take over subject matter expert duties upon Line-Manager
• Implementation of projects and ad'hoc activities upon Line Manager instructions

Skills/ Qualifications:

The successful candidate will benefit from having:

• Bank education with higher or academic background (level not imperative)
• SWIFT knowledge in particular MT566
• in depth knowledge of securities accounting
• broad understanding of financial instrument including derivatives and ETFs
• strong knowledge of Microsoft platform especially excel
• Good command of the German and English language (written and spoken)
• Experience in a fund administration would be a plus
• A team player (but can work independently as well, of course)
• Capable of understanding client's needs and translating them into solutions
• Committed and self-motivated
• Capable to operate effectively also under tight deadlines and support your team

Working with Us:

As a Northern Trust partner, greater achievements await. You will be part of a flexible and collaborative work culture in an organization where financial strength and stability is an asset that emboldens us to explore new ideas. Movement within the organization is encouraged, senior leaders are accessible, and you can take pride in working for a company committed to assisting the communities we serve! Join a workplace with a greater purpose.

We'd love to learn more about how your interests and experience could be a fit with one of the world's most admired and sustainable companies! Build your career with us and apply today. #MadeForGreater

Reasonable accommodation:

Northern Trust is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please email our HR Service Center at MyHRHelp@ntrs.com.
We hope you're excited about the role and the opportunity to work with us. We value an inclusive workplace and understand flexibility means different things to different people.
Apply today and talk to us about your flexible working requirements and together we can achieve greater.

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