Associate, Corporate Actions
Application Deadline
10/16/2026
Address
100 King Street West
Job Family Group
Customer Shared Services
Corporate Actions Associate
Location: Toronto, Ontario
Mandate
The Associate, Corporate Actions, requires an Independent, self-motivated individual that will provide daily Corporate Actions support of Firm Trading and Equity Finance accounts. Daily responsibilities will include the full life cycle processing of all North American corporate action events across the multiple entities for Capital Markets. BMO is a long-established Tier 1 broker dealer, with a history of being in the forefront of Equity Finance and Proprietary Trading and is looking for a motivated team member to be part of a dynamic department.
The NAM Corporate Actions team will service the trades/positions on Six BMO business entities.
SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS
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Reports to the Sr. Manager of the NAM Corporate actions team.
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Full understanding of end-to-end processing of the corporate action lifecycle, from announcement capture through to the final entitlement reconciliations
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Daily liaison with trading desks, ops groups, accounts and institutional counterparties is needed to ensure the efficient processing of elections and entitlement setups
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Daily monitoring and clearance of cash/stock reconciliations
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Working with the team manager to fulfil year-end/mid-year reviews and individual goal setting
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Able to adapt to future departmental projects. Projects include the integration of voluntary corporate actions processing into the new in-house entitlement tracking system (EnTrack) and the external vendor system.
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Manage and monitor complex corporate action types that have a significant amount of risk associated.
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Make independent decisions within established guidelines, procedures and Letter of Authority/authority levels in resolution/escalation of problems, including system, software and hardware failures.
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Escalate all unresolved processing issues to the appropriate level, as the guidelines.
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Develop initiatives to avoid repetition of operational issues.
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Act as SME in Corporate Actions & Entitlements
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Maintain key controls and review processes quarterly
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Identify potential risk situations within the scope of work (e.g. risk assessments), make recommendations and/or escalate to senior management, where appropriate, and ensure contingency plans exist.
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Contribute to the management of risk and minimize losses through monitoring and controlling various reports and taking appropriate actions, ensuring compliance requirements, audits and verifications are completed in accordance with Bank P&Ps.
Industry Knowledge and Skills
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5+ years’ experience in asset servicing, with a Minimum of 3 years’ experience in a voluntary corporate actions’ role. Within a Top/Mid-tier broker dealer or Bank
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Strong AI proficiency with a demonstrated eagerness to learn and apply innovative solutions to enhance and optimize processes.
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