Corporate Action Analyst - Remote Opportunity

About the Role

Hudson River Trading (HRT) is seeking a Corporate Action Analyst to join our PostTrade Strategic Initiatives team. This Corporate Action Analyst remote position offers an exciting opportunity to work within a highly productive team that designs and operates systems and processes that reconcile the firm’s trading with various brokers and counterparties globally. Due to the high volume of trades and the complexity of our global trading system, we rely heavily on automation to reduce operational risk, ensure data integrity, and maintain regulatory compliance.

What You'll Do

• Analyze corporate action events from external data sources and verify information accuracy.
• Maintain data accuracy within the firm’s reference data catalogue.
• Support the full lifecycle of mandatory events, voluntary events, and dividends from announcement to settlement.
• Monitor all upcoming corporate actions to verify proper processing throughout HRT’s infrastructure.
• Investigate stock and cash reconciliation discrepancies daily and ensure all issues are properly resolved.
• Effectively manage and communicate risk around events and liaise with our Algo, Compliance, and Operations teams to optimize accordingly.
• Interface with clearing houses, prime brokers, and counterparties on voluntary and election-based actions.
• Identify and review corporate action event taxability, ensuring key stakeholders are appropriately updated.
• Collaborate with teams across the firm to identify opportunities for new and improved workflows around the processing, settlement, and reconciliation of corporate action events.
• Perform root cause analysis on problematic corporate action processing to increase automation.

Requirements

• Minimum of 3-5 years of experience in a Corporate Action operations role, including an understanding of brokerage operations and the maintenance of reference data.
• Strong knowledge of asset servicing across global markets, mandatory and voluntary corporate actions, and dividends.
• Knowledge of dividend tax withholding and processing of proxy votes are a plus.
• Deep understanding of corporate action events, procedures, specific risk, and market practice.
• Thorough understanding of security attributes across all asset classes as it relates to a security master.
• Experience in stock borrow lending and settlement impacts on corporate actions.
• Experience with the post-trade life cycle of equities, fixed income, and options.
• Experience with external relationship management, including technology vendors, prime brokers, counterparties, etc.
• Experience with SQL and relational databases.
• Experience with Bloomberg or Markit is a plus.
• Knowledge of UNIX operating systems is a plus (we use Linux).

Nice to Have

• Excellent cross-functional communication and collaboration skills.
• Ability to work independently in a fast-paced, high-pressure environment.
• Willingness to take ownership of challenging work and admit to and learn from mistakes.
• Ability to debug, analyze, and troubleshoot problems under fast turnaround times.
• Highly analytical nature, with meticulous attention to detail.
• Ability to maintain accuracy and speed while processing large amounts of information.

What We Offer

• Competitive salary and benefits package.
• Remote work flexibility, allowing you to work from anywhere.
• Opportunities for professional development and career growth.
• A collaborative and inclusive company culture.
• Access to cutting-edge technology and tools.