Associate - corporate actions / income process

Position Purpose

The Custody – Corporate Actions Department is very important and critical process, of handling Corporate Actions for the clients globally. The Global custody processing in BNP Paribas Securities Services are segregated into Corporate Actions, Income and Tax for operational efficiency and accuracy. Corporate Actions are further divided into Mandatory, Voluntary and DVOP teams.

A Senior Associate, in the CA department performs a pivot and critical task of processing and having full control on the daily BAU as per the Standing operating procedure for the particular process / team

Responsibilities

Cross-checking information received with other data sources

Reverting to local sub-custodians to clarify / solve any open issue.

Analyzing the corporate event in order to anticipate any reporting or processing issues.

Setting-up of financial information into the Custody system

Collecting and relay any update related to the corporate event on an on-going basis.

Processing the securities reconciliation with sub-custodians client positions at the different steps of the event.

Checking eligible positions of accounts within the local sub-custodian

Checking that all eligible positions have been instructed at response deadline (for voluntary events only)

Consolidating client instructions (for voluntary events only)

Advising local market by sending instructions of participation to sub-custodian (for voluntary events only)

Checking that instructions of participation have been duly acknowledged by sub-custodian.

Tracking of the payment date of the event in order to advise clients accordingly

Processing payment of the event on client’s account upon recovery of cash and / or securities from the local sub-custodian

Processing foreign exchange orders according to client’s set up.

Processing any manual adjustment related to cash or securities in order to finalize the recovery process

Justifying any cash or securities breaks to Control Teams is happening on periodic basis.

Participate in Brain Storming Sessions and share the best practices and ideas with the peer groups and team members.

Consistently evaluate and update documented procedures to ensure they are complete, accurate and current.

Perform daily controls on team activity as per existing check lists to ensure priorities have been respected and tasks have been correctly performed.

Escalate to the Team Leader any incident or operational risk.

Manage risk and priorities applying the existing procedures

To assist in providing the figures for the monthly KPI

To be based in Chennai and prepared to travel as required.

Must be prepared to work in any shift supporting Asia / Americas / European business hours.

Technical & Behavioral Competencies

Strong knowledge in handling corporate actions and income related events for various instrument types

Expertise in Using Banking Software’s & overall awareness of using MS Word, Excel, Power Point etc.

Able to clearly understand and envisage the SWIFT messages (MT564, MT565, MT567, MT568, MT599 etc). The Associate should read through the SWIFT message very comfortably and act on the amendments in the message ( Field - 23 C : NEWM / REPL / CANC / REVR etc)

To create events for the respective teams (Mandatory, Voluntary, Income, DVOP & Tax) by analyzing and understanding the SWIFT messages with error free processing and high standards.

Should be well versed in checking Client inbound and analyze whether the particular client / trade is eligible for the CA.

Need to perform the Entitlement and Eligibility reconciliation to forecast the payments and holdings in the future.

Should be able to research and analyze the Nostr0 and Pivot breaks, then acting upon in resolving the breaks.

Should be able to comfortably process the payments (Security & Cash) from MT 566 messages received without error and within specified time bound.

Should be able to create instructions (Manual Instructions also) and deposit the message with due -diligence and accuracy.

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

3-8 year professional working experience

Strong communication and interpersonal skills