Perform manual validation of financial announcements (e.g., cash dividends, stock splits, mergers, tenders, etc…) and modify/create Corporate Action events based on review of automated/non-automated sources.
Responsibilities/Authorities:
- Validate, compare, and analyze financial announcements from multiple vendor sources
- Ensure that the state of each record for each announcement becomes both clean and complete and ready for approval
- Add data to incomplete records and resolve in-conflict records using all available sources (e.g., data vendors, web sites, investor relations departments, stock exchange notices)
- Makes calls/inquiries to paying agents, depositories, companies to acquire/confirm data
- Gather and review Custodian data, using automated and manual means (i.e., swifts, email and telephone)
- Research all announcement cancellations
- Prepare audit trail of actions taken and file/record supporting documentation
- Research requests and provide product/referential data support