Associate Analyst - Corporate Actions

Where Ambition Meets Innovation

Build a career that matches all your initiative with an impressive dose of innovation. From cutting-edge resources and a collaborative environment to the freedom to make an impact and more, you’ll find the ingredients you need at LPL Financial to shape your success while helping clients pursue their financial goals.

Job Overview:

We are seeking a candidate who ideally has previous experience in the financial services industry, preferably with a background in dividends (mutual fund or equity), corporate action events, including voluntary/mandatory reorg events, restricted security processes, proxy, and/or shareholder communications.  The Associate Analyst responsibilities may include monitoring corporate action events including analyzing and drafting terms for reorg announcements, processing of complex allocations, exception processing review and analysis, account reconciliation, submitting restricted stock certificates for restriction removal or reregistration, and facilitate stock option exercises.  They will handle inbound calls and team mailboxes to support inquiries from advisors, internal and external parties. This role is advisor facing so strong interpersonal and communication skills (written and verbal) is needed to be effective in the role. 

Responsibilities:

• Leverage technology to automate manual work and simplify processes where feasible to create a highly scalable, flexible, and efficient infrastructure.
• Understand and interpret regulatory requirements and industry updates in an ever-changing regulatory environment, and the business needs of LPL, our advisors, and other departments.
• Responsible for daily quality control, exception review processing and reporting.
• Analyze and manage the firm’s DRIP program, ensuring compliance with industry guidelines.
• Research and escalate allocation issues to our domestic and foreign depositaries.
• Reconcile suspense and clearance accounts, resolving breaks, and security and suspense transaction reviews adhering to established quality control measures and procedures.
• Analyze downgraded or new corporate action events, update or draft terms and key information to communicate with advisors for domestic and foreign securities.
• Research restricted stock certificates with various 3rd parties including Transfer Agents, Issuers, Legal Counsels and others to determine requirements and eligibility for restriction removals and re-registrations.
• Partner with our Financial Professionals and external companies to facilitate Employee Stock Option Exercises.
• Effectively and confidently communicate with other internal departments as well as external 3rd parties including, but not limited to, contra brokers, transfer agents, issuers, vendors, and partners to resolve issues, broker and ACAT fails or submit claims.
• Be a subject matter expert (SME) on operational policies and procedures. Assisting with the review, and update of Training Manuals and creation of new ones as needed.
• Handle inbound calls and the team mailbox, research and reply to inquiries from advisors and service team. Research and process service requests that are created by service teams.
• Support and contribute toward the successful execution of projects and initiatives that support LPL’s priorities. Participate in UAT.
• Other assignments as required by Management.

Requirements:

• 3 years plus of financial and/or brokerage industry experience, preferably in operations
• Proficient in Microsoft applications, particularly Excel and Outlook

Core Competencies:

• Excellent problem-solving skills, strong attention to detail, ability to analyze data, draw insights, and make data-driven decisions.
• Ability to multi-task various functions and assignments with competing priorities, changing demands, and tight deadlines.
• Effective and proactive communicator with strong written and verbal communication skills in dealing with advisors, internal and external parties, vendors, and different levels of management.
• Ability to execute strategies and track successful delivery.
• Positive attitude with a commitment to excellence and integrity.

Preferences:

• BA/BS (or equivalent work experience)
• FINRA SIE, 99 or 7 licenses preferred

 

Pay Range:

$24.71-$41.15/hour
 Actual base salary varies based on factors, including but not limited to, relevant skill, prior experience, education, base salary of internal peers, demonstrated performance, and geographic location. Additionally, LPL Total Rewards package is highly competitive, designed to support your success at work, at home, and at play – such as 401K matching, health benefits, employee stock options, paid time off, volunteer time off, and more. Your recruiter will be happy to discuss all that LPL has to offer!
 

Company Overview:

LPL Financial Holdings Inc. (Nasdaq: LPLA) is among the fastest growing wealth management firms in the U.S. As a leader in the financial advisor-mediated marketplace(6) , LPL supports over 32,000 financial advisors and the wealth management practices of approximately 1,100 financial institutions, servicing and custodying approximately $2.3 trillion in brokerage and advisory assets on behalf of approximately 8 million Americans. The firm provides a wide range of advisor affiliation models, investment solutions, fintech tools and practice management services, ensuring that advisors and institutions have the flexibility to choose the business model, services, and technology resources they need to run thriving businesses. For further information about LPL, please visit www.lpl.com.

At LPL, independence means that advisors and institution leaders have the freedom they deserve to choose the business model, services, and technology resources that allow them to run a thriving business. They have the flexibility to do business their way. And they have the freedom to manage their client relationships, because they know their clients best. Simply put, we take care of our advisors and institutions, so they can take care of their clients.

For further information about LPL, please visit www.lpl.com.

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Information on Interviews:

LPL will only communicate with a job applicant directly from an @lplfinancial.com email address and will never conduct an interview online or in a chatroom forum.  During an interview, LPL will not request any form of payment from the applicant, or information regarding an applicant’s bank or credit card.  Should you have any questions regarding the application process, please contact LPL’s Human Resources Solutions Center at (855) 575-6947.

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