Associate - Corporate Actions / Income Process

As a Senior Associate in the Custody Corporate Actions Department at BNP Paribas Securities Services, you play a pivotal and critical role in processing and maintaining full control over daily BAU operations. Your responsibilities include: - Cross-checking information received with other data sources - Reverting to local sub-custodians to clarify/solve any open issues - Analyzing corporate events to anticipate any reporting or processing issues - Setting up financial information in the Custody system - Collecting and relaying any updates related to corporate events on an ongoing basis - Processing securities reconciliation with sub-custodian client positions at different event steps - Checking eligible positions of accounts within the local sub-custodian - Ensuring all eligible positions are instructed at response deadlines for voluntary events - Consolidating client instructions for voluntary events - Advising local markets by sending participation instructions to sub-custodians for voluntary events - Checking that participation instructions are duly acknowledged by sub-custodians - Processing foreign exchange orders according to client setups - Processing manual adjustments related to cash or securities to finalize the recovery process - Justifying any cash or securities breaks to Control Teams periodically - Participating in Brainstorming Sessions and sharing best practices and ideas with peer groups and team members - Evaluating and updating documented procedures to ensure completeness, accuracy, and currentness - Performing daily controls on team activities to ensure priorities and tasks are correctly performed - Escalating any incidents or operational risks to the Team Leader - Managing risks and priorities applying existing procedures - Assisting in providing figures for monthly KPI - Being based in Chennai and ready to travel as required - Being prepared to work in any shift supporting Asia/Americas/European business hours In terms of Technical & Behavioral Competencies, you should have: - Strong knowledge in handling corporate actions and income-related events for various instrument types - Expertise in using Banking Softwares & overall awareness of using MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc. - Ability to understand and envisage SWIFT messages (MT564, MT565, MT567, MT568, MT599, etc.) comfortably and act on the message amendments - Creating events for Mandatory, Voluntary, Income, DVOP & Tax teams by analyzing and understanding SWIFT messages with error-free processing - Checking Client inbound and analyzing eligibility for the Corporate Actions - Researching and analyzing Nostr0 and Pivot breaks, then resolving them - Creating instructions (including Manual Instructions) and depositing messages with due diligence and accuracy Qualifications required for this role include: - Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience - 3-8 years of professional working experience - Strong communication and interpersonal skills,