Corporate Actions Associate
Position Summary
Guggenheim Investments is seeking an exceptional Associate to join its Corporate Actions team. Reporting to the Vice President of Corporate Actions, this person will join a highly collaborative team responsible for ensuring that mandatory and voluntary Corporate Action Events, as well as Proxy Votes, are processed on a timely and accurate basis. Additionally, this person will assist management with drafting processes and procedures.
Responsibilities
- Cook up and check all corporate action paperwork.
- Make sure the right paperwork gets to the front office for decisions.
- Follow up with the front office to make sure they get the instructions on time.
- Put events in the system and make sure custodians know about them.
- Check if what's planned matches what's actually happened.
- Dice off any money checks and send them to the custodian to put in client accounts.
- File all the paperwork for each corporate action.
- Run a report every week showing active events and their statuses.
- Distribute the weekly report to the right people.
- Handle monthly and quarterly proxy notices.
- Pass along proxy info to the right people.
- Take care of amendments and restructurings on bank loans assets and update the systems accordingly.
Qualifications
- Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree
- 2+ years of experience in corporate actions or similar field
- Knowledge of the Fixed Income, Private Assets, and Bank Loans
- Proficiency in all Microsoft Office products, particularly Excel and Access
- Preferred Qualifications:
- Excellent communication skills (oral and written)
- Team-oriented individual with ability to work well with diverse groups
- Organized, detail-oriented, and extremely thorough while having confidence and communication skills to ensure work processes are completed accurately and appropriately
- Demonstrated problem-solving skills and ability to take initiative and critically analyze processes and procedures in a push toward constant improvement
- Experience with Swift Messaging
Pay
Salary Range: Annual base salary between $100,000.00 - $105,000.00. The base salary range represents the low and high end of the anticipated base salary range for this position. Actual base salaries may vary depending on factors such as location and experience. The range listed reflects base salary only, and the total compensation package may include other components such as incentive compensation.