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American Century Investments® is a leading global asset manager focused on delivering investment results and building long-term client relationships while supporting research that can improve human health and save lives. Founded in 1958, the firm's 1,400 employees serve financial professionals, institutions, corporations and individual investors, offering a wide range of investment strategies across a variety of investment disciplines.
We are committed to providing institutional-quality, actively managed solutions with a performance-centered mindset. Our expertise spans global growth equity, global value equity, disciplined equity, multi-asset strategies, global fixed income, alternatives and ETFs.
Privately controlled and independent, we focus solely on investment management. This empowers us to align our decisions with client expectations and concentrate on their long-term money management needs.
Our culture of winning behaviors exemplifies our dedication to clients every single day. Delivering investment results enables us to distribute over 40% of our dividends-more than $1.8 billion - to the Stowers Institute for Medical Research, a 500-person, non-profit basic biomedical research organization with a controlling interest in American Century Investments. Our dividend payments provide ongoing financial support for the Institute's work of uncovering the causes, treatments and prevention of life-threatening diseases, like cancer.
For more information, please visit americancentury.com.
We are currently seeking a highly skilled Legal Assistant - Financial Services to manage compliance with federal and state tax, securities, and financial laws as they relate to the transfer agency operations and under the direction of internal and external counsel. Additionally, the Legal Assistant will be the primary internal resource and external liaison for all of the firm's intellectual property matters.
Responsibilities:
Qualifications:
Additional Requirements:
Employees are required to be in the office on a scheduled frequency. Adherence to this schedule is essential to fulfilling the expectations of the role.
As a global firm with offices in several cities, we will uphold any local regulations regarding COVID-19 precautions and/or vaccination requirements for the workplace.
American Century Investments is committed to complying with the Americans with Disabilities Act and all other applicable Equal Employment Opportunity laws and regulations. As such, American Century strives to provide a reasonable accommodation to any qualified individual under the ADA to perform essential job functions.
American Century Investments believes all individuals are entitled to equal employment opportunity and advancement opportunities without regard to race, religious creed, color, sex, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age for individuals forty years of age and older, military and veteran status, sexual orientation, and any other basis protected by applicable federal, state and local laws. ACI does not discriminate or adopt any policy that discriminates against an individual or any group of individuals on any of these bases.
American Century Investments® is a leading global asset manager focused on delivering investment results and building long-term client relationships while supporting research that can improve human health and save lives. Founded in 1958, the firm's 1,400 employees serve financial professionals, institutions, corporations and individual investors, offering a wide range of investment strategies across a variety of investment disciplines.
We are committed to providing institutional-quality, actively managed solutions with a performance-centered mindset. Our expertise spans global growth equity, global value equity, disciplined equity, multi-asset strategies, global fixed income, alternatives and ETFs.
Privately controlled and independent, we focus solely on investment management. This empowers us to align our decisions with client expectations and concentrate on their long-term money management needs.
Our culture of winning behaviors exemplifies our dedication to clients every single day. Delivering investment results enables us to distribute over 40% of our dividends-more than $1.8 billion - to the Stowers Institute for Medical Research, a 500-person, non-profit basic biomedical research organization with a controlling interest in American Century Investments. Our dividend payments provide ongoing financial support for the Institute's work of uncovering the causes, treatments and prevention of life-threatening diseases, like cancer.
For more information, please visit americancentury.com.
We are currently seeking a highly skilled Legal Assistant - Financial Services to manage compliance with federal and state tax, securities, and financial laws as they relate to the transfer agency operations and under the direction of internal and external counsel. Additionally, the Legal Assistant will be the primary internal resource and external liaison for all of the firm's intellectual property matters.
Responsibilities:
- Manage activities related to coordination and periodic audit to ensure entity compliance with various federal and state laws and regulations. Under the direction of internal and external counsel, research and provide expert guidelines and opinions to the transfer agency as they relate to the noted laws and regulations. These laws and regulation include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Internal Revenue Code as it relates to income tax withholding (Section 3405 and 3406), retirement plans, 529 Plans, Section 2518 disclaimers, inheritance tax waivers, Federal Transfer Certificates
- Escheatment as required by individual state authorities.
- Other regulators including, but not limited to, the IRS, U.S. Treasury, FBI, Secret Service, U.S. Department of Justice, FINRA, SEC, U.S. Postal Inspectors, and Federal Trade Commission.
- Maintain professional relationships and coordinate communication with outside counsel and other professionals involving transfer agency operations.
- Analyze the impact of various laws, including transfer agency, trust, inheritance, tax, securities, and their impact on shareholder accounts, including responding in writing to shareholders and their counsel, bank, trustee, estate, or the state or federal court or agency overseeing related matters. Draft and revise corporate response to external attorneys, federal and state courts and agencies relating to litigation, arbitration, blocked account verifications, asset verifications to social services agencies and the SEC, bankruptcies, state and federal tax and child support levies, client complaints, and SEC transfer agency filings, including TA-1, TA-2 and 17Ad-13 filings.
- Consult on trust and estate matters and coordinate early termination court proceedings with outside counsel.
- Provide guidance and legal insight to retail channel leadership team to determine policy and procedures related to client account activities.
- Intellectual Property support to assigned internal ACI counsel: consult/research on new desired trademarks and copyrights, manage renewals of past trademarks and copyrights, assist with trademark conflicts (infringement matters)
- Provide administrative support on portfolio trading documents: routine periodic reissuance of required industry forms, respond to external requests for currently dated industry forms, maintain and update internal "Authorized Traders" lists as necessary.
- Provide consistent, sound professional judgment and expertise.
- Manage multiple projects, and plan/organize to complete tasks timely.
- Display excellent verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills while interacting with all levels of management.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of Science from accredited college or university, or equivalent combination of education and work experience.
- At least 3 years' experience as a paralegal, preferably in a financial services setting
- Paralegal Certificate or transfer agency law experience preferred.
- Exhibits the American Century Investments Winning Behaviors: Client Focused, Courageous and Accountable, Collaborative, Curious and Adaptable, Competitively Driven, Adheres to the highest ethical standards and business practices, and Supports a culture of compliance.
Additional Requirements:
Employees are required to be in the office on a scheduled frequency. Adherence to this schedule is essential to fulfilling the expectations of the role.
As a global firm with offices in several cities, we will uphold any local regulations regarding COVID-19 precautions and/or vaccination requirements for the workplace.
American Century Investments is committed to complying with the Americans with Disabilities Act and all other applicable Equal Employment Opportunity laws and regulations. As such, American Century strives to provide a reasonable accommodation to any qualified individual under the ADA to perform essential job functions.
American Century Investments believes all individuals are entitled to equal employment opportunity and advancement opportunities without regard to race, religious creed, color, sex, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age for individuals forty years of age and older, military and veteran status, sexual orientation, and any other basis protected by applicable federal, state and local laws. ACI does not discriminate or adopt any policy that discriminates against an individual or any group of individuals on any of these bases.
