Asset Services: Corporate Action Entitlements

Job Description:

Job Title: Asset Services: Corporate Action Entitlements

Corporate Title: Officer

Location: Dublin

Company Overview:

At Bank of America, we are guided by a common purpose to help make financial lives better through the power of every connection. Responsible Growth is how we run our company and how we deliver for our clients, teammates, communities, and shareholders every day.

One of the keys to driving Responsible Growth is being a great place to work for our teammates around the world. We’re devoted to being a diverse and inclusive workplace for everyone. We hire individuals with a broad range of backgrounds and experiences and invest heavily in our teammates and their families by offering competitive benefits to support their physical, emotional, and financial well-being. Bank of America believes both in the importance of working together and offering flexibility to our employees. We use a multi-faceted approach for flexibility, depending on the various roles in our organization.

Working at Bank of America will give you a great career with opportunities to learn, grow and make an impact, along with the power to make a difference. Join us!

Location: Dublin

Find us at our Central Park office, Leopardstown, where you will find our state-of-the-art facilities based in Dublin’s premium business park. With an onsite gym, staff restaurant and coffee shop, all your daily needs are conveniently catered for. There are also a range of travel options available to staff, including the LUAS network and the Central Park shuttle service between Dublin City Centre and Central Park, which means getting to work has never been so easy.

Role Description:

An exciting opportunity has become available within the Asset Services department. The department is responsible for Voluntary and Mandatory Corporate Action events within EMEA markets. Dublin Asset Services is a globally aligned function reporting to the Global Head of Asset Services. The department works closely with colleagues in London, US, and Asia Asset Services.

Asset Services play an important role in the life cycle of a trade and they work closely with other Operational teams and external parties to ensure risk on corporate actions is dealt with effectively. This role offers direct interactions with a variety of different lines of business (including Prime Broker, Equity Trading, Swaps, Stock Loan and Custody) and as such the ability to build and retain good relationships with these stakeholders is important.

Responsibilities

• You will understand & correctly interpret information on corporate action events received from various data sources
• You will reconcile positions and accurately process events is completed on the key processing date
• You will build relationships with key stakeholders, including trading desks
• You answer incoming queries to ensure they are answered accurately and in a timely manner
• You will review team processes and identify focus areas for potential improvement
• You will maintain risk within the levels set by the management team

What we are looking for:

• You will have knowledge of Banking / Financial services industry
• You will have dividend or corporate actions experience ideally
• You will have the ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines and to work as part of a team
• You will have a flexible approach to work and the needs of the department
• You will have excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
• You will participate in and drive collaborative efforts to advance tools, technology, and ways of working to better serve an evolving client base
• Ability to escalate issues and manage risk

Additional Skills

• Attention to detail
• Good problem-solving skills
• Strive to bring new thoughts and ideas to teams to drive innovation and unique solutions
• Excels in working among diverse viewpoints to determine the best path forward
• Experience in connecting with a diverse set of clients to understand future business needs – is a continuous learner
• Commitment to challenging the status quo and promoting positive change

Benefits of working at Bank of America
Ireland

• Private healthcare for you and your family plus an annual health screen to help you manage your physical wellness with the option to purchase a screen for your partner
• Competitive pension plan, life assurance and group income protection cover if you become unable to work because of a disability or health reasons
• 20 days of back-up childcare including virtual tutoring and 20 days of adult-care per annum
• Ability to change your core benefits as well as the option of selecting a variety of flexible benefits to suit your personal circumstances including access to a wellbeing account, travel insurance, specified illness cover etc
• Use of a flex fund to use towards benefits
• Access to free counselling through an Employee Assistance Programme and virtual GP services
• Opportunity to donate to charities of your choice directly through payroll and the bank will match your contribution
• Opportunity to join our Arts & Culture corporate membership programme and receive discounted entry to some of the UK and Ireland’s most iconic cultural institutions
• Opportunity to give back to your community, develop new skills and work with new groups of people by volunteering in your local area

Bank of America

Good conduct and sound judgment are crucial to our long-term success. It’s important that all employees in the organisation understand the expected standards of conduct and how we manage conduct risk. Individual accountability and an ownership mind-set are the cornerstones of our Code of Conduct and are at the heart of managing risk well.

We are an equal opportunity employer and ensure that no applicant is subject to less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, gender identity, marital status, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origins, age, sexual orientation, socio-economic background, responsibilities for dependants, physical or mental disability. The Bank selects candidates for interview based on their skills, qualifications, and experience.

We strive to ensure that our recruitment processes are accessible for all candidates and encourage any candidates to tell us about any adjustment requirements.