Corporate Actions Senior Associate Team Lead

Are you ready to make an impact at DTCC?  

Do you want to work on innovative projects, collaborate with a dynamic and supportive team, and receive investment in your professional development? At DTCC, we are at the forefront of innovation in the financial markets. We're committed to helping our employees grow and succeed. We believe that you have the skills and drive to make a real impact. We cultivate a thriving internal community and are committed to creating a workplace that looks like the world that we serve.

Pay and Benefits:

• Competitive compensation, including base pay and annual incentive
• Comprehensive health and life insurance and well-being benefits, based on location
• Pension / Retirement benefits 
• Paid Time Off and Personal/Family Care, and other leaves of absence when needed to support your physical, financial, and emotional well-being.
• DTCC offers a flexible/hybrid model of 3 days onsite and 2 days remote (onsite Tuesdays, Wednesdays and a third day unique to each team or employee). 

The impact you will have in this role:

The Global Business Operations (GBO) organization is responsible for all operations and asset services supporting the following DTCC businesses: 

The Depository Trust Company (DTC), National Securities Clearing Corporation (NSCC), Fixed Income Clearing Corporation (FICC) - Government Securities Division (GSD) & Mortgage-Backed Securities Division (MBSD), Wealth Management Services (WMS), Insurance & Retirement Services (I&RS), Solutions Operations - Global Service Bureau (GSB). GBO's mission is to provide the Securities Industry with superior operations processing and client services support in an environment that minimizes risk and cost while maximizing efficiency.

Being a member of the of the Corporate Actions Processing areas announce and process all asset servicing events associated with DTC-eligible securities and respond to client inquiries on the same. Due to the scope of event types and their volume, Corporate Actions is organized into the following business units: 

• Principal and Income (P&I): Includes cash distribution events such as dividends, interest, and pro-rata principal, as well as redemption events such as partial and full calls, and maturities.
• Stock Dividends: Includes stock distribution events such as forward stock splits, spin-offs, rights distributions, as well as processing dividend reinvestment instructions on behalf of DTC's clients.
• Dividend International Services (DIS): Includes optional services to investors such as events with foreign currency options and "at-source" tax relief.
• Global Tax Services: Performs processing associated with the classification, withholding, remittance, and reporting of US-sourced income to the IRS, and year-end reporting to the IRS on behalf of DTC, NSCC and FICC.
• Mandatory Reorganization: Includes cash and stock events such as mergers, reverse splits, name changes and bankruptcies where there is no decision to be made by an investor.
• Voluntary Reorganization: Includes cash and stock events where an investor has a decision to make. These events include tenders, mergers with election, election of rights and warrants, exercise of convertible securities and processing securities with put features.
• P&I Event Reconciliation Support (PIERS): Identifies, researches, and resolves residual payment discrepancies associated with P&I Events; performs monitoring and reporting on P&I cash and securities accounts, as well as handles claims to and from issuers and agents.

Your Primary Responsibilities:

• Supervises day-to-day activities of a designated team. Ensures strict adherence to procedures and critical timeframes; ability to handle challenging priorities. Directly manages people.
• Strong evaluator with focus on development of others to perform by providing ongoing feedback and by providing opportunities to learn through formal and informal methods. Identifies training gaps and implements appropriate actions to resolve.
• Identifies and mitigates risk by having knowledge of department controls with the ability to spot key opportunities and identify root cause issues.
• Maintains a steadfast focus on meeting the needs/requests of our internal and external clients, including responding to inquiries timely and accurately, resolving issues promptly. Resolves exceptions, assists with complex inquiries.
• Understands and applies principles, procedures, requirements, regulations, and policies related to specialized business functions. Writes/maintains procedures and job aids. Identifies procedure gaps, updates procedures to fill gaps as directed.
• Demonstrates effective communication skills, active engagement in meetings, and displays curiosity to learn and grow; accepts feedback given and applies to role. Presents information clearly while speaking in small to mid-sized groups .
• Assists in benchmark tracking, audit follow-up, compliance, and risk management activities.
• Participates and owns team impacting projects and initiatives.

**NOTE: The Primary Responsibilities of this role are not limited to the details above. **

Qualifications:

• Minimum of 6 years of related experience
• Bachelor's degree preferred or equivalent experience.

Talents Needed for Success:

• Cultivates a culture where honesty and transparency are expected.
• Stays current on changes in their own specialist area and seeks out learning opportunities to ensure knowledge is up-to-date.
• Proactively seeks feedback from others on their own performance; Provides constructive feedback about behaviors that increase individual and team performance.
• Values the roles and contributions of others.
• Builds collaborative teams across the organization.

The salary range is indicative for roles at the same level within DTCC across all US locations. Actual salary is determined based on the role, location, individual experience, skills, and other considerations. We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.