Director, Corporate Actions
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AlpacaFinancial Services
Remote - Americas, Remote - APAC, Remote - EUFull-TimeDirector
SalaryCompetitive Salary & Stock Options
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Job Details
- Experience
- 8+ years
- Required Skills
- Risk Management
Requirements
- 8+ years of Corporate Actions experience within a broker-dealer, clearing firm, custodian, bank, or comparable financial institution.
- Prior leadership experience managing a Corporate Actions or securities operations function.
- Deep hands-on knowledge of mandatory and voluntary Corporate Actions (dividends, reorganizations, splits, mergers, tenders, rights, redemptions, etc.).
- Strong knowledge of U.S. market infrastructure, including DTCC/DTC Corporate Actions processes.
- Meaningful international Corporate Actions experience across multiple markets, custodians, currencies, and withholding regimes.
- Deep understanding of Corporate Actions data flow through broker-dealer books and records, position systems, and front-office trading systems.
- Proven experience designing and supervising maker-checker controls, reconciliations, and operational risk frameworks.
- Demonstrated ownership of high-risk production functions where errors impact financial, margin, or regulatory exposure.
- Strong incident-management discipline with a track record of driving process and technology remediation.
- Strong ability to partner with Product and Engineering to translate operational risk into scalable system requirements.
- Clear, concise communication skills for working with senior leadership, auditors, regulators, and technical teams.
Responsibilities
- Lead the Corporate Actions organization across mandatory and voluntary events including dividends, splits, mergers, and security lifecycle changes.
- Establish and own the supervisory framework governing Corporate Actions, including maker-checker standards, control gates, and escalation thresholds.
- Manage material Corporate Actions incidents from containment through root cause analysis and permanent system remediation.
- Partner with Security Master, Trading, Product, and Engineering leadership to eliminate failure modes and improve front-to-back controls.
- Drive automation and reconciliation tooling to reduce manual processing and improve scalability.
- Build a common global operating model across markets, custodians, depositories, and tax regimes.
- Develop the team, strengthening subject-matter depth and succession coverage.
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