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to financial data and analytics that investors use to make crucial decisions.
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Working Environment: Hybrid
Role Overview
As a Content Manager - Corporate Actions at FactSet, you will play a pivotal role in integrating and maintaining ISO 15022/ 20022 messaging standards within our workflows, ensuring FactSet meets industry requirements and client expectations for data accuracy, coverage, compliance, and timeliness.
Alongside ISO format integration, you will ensure high-quality, accurate corporate actions data reaches clients, develop and optimize workflows, and provide subject matter expertise for internal and external stakeholders.
Key Responsibilities
- Oversee the integration, validation, and maintenance of ISO15022 & ISO20022- compliant corporate actions messaging, ensuring alignment with industry standards and seamless client integration while serving as FactSet’s subject matter expert and primary liaison for all related issues.
- Manage the Corporate Actions Master database to ensure comprehensive, timely, error-free, and up-to-date corporate actions records.
- Identify and onboard new markets, event types, and sources to broaden the scope and depth of corporate actions coverage.
- Supervise and mentor a team of data analysts and specialists, ensuring productivity and accuracy targets are met.
- Develop, document, and refine internal procedures and quality control standards for corporate actions content.
- Monitor, analyze, and resolve complex data issues, liaising with engineering, product management, and client support teams as needed.
- Provide timely responses and solutions to internal or client inquiries regarding corporate actions content.
- Proactively identify and implement process improvements through automation, tooling, or modified workflows.
- Serve as a subject matter expert on global corporate action event types, market best practices, and FactSet’s proprietary data models.
- Liaise with global offices, partners, and data sources to coordinate and optimize content coverage.
- Participate in training, onboarding, and knowledge management initiatives for team members.
What We're Looking For
Required Skills
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Business, Computer Science, or related field.
- 5+ years in financial data operations or content management, with substantial experience in corporate actions.
- Extensive experience and in-depth knowledge of ISO 15022 and ISO 20022 corporate actions messaging protocols are required.
- Deep knowledge of global corporate action events and their market/regulatory impacts.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with attention to data quality.
- Proven stakeholder management, leadership, and communication skills with the ability to drive change and influence at all levels.
- Advanced proficiency in Excel; expertise in SQL, XML, SWIFT formats, and data automation tools a strong plus.
- Proven ability to manage competing priorities and deliver results in a fast-paced, deadline-oriented environment
Desired Skills
- Experience with FactSet or comparable financial data/platform providers.
- Familiarity with other industry ISO standards
- Familiarity with AI-driven analytics tools and their application in financial data management.
- Advanced degrees or certifications (CFA, CAIA)
For U.S. candidates, must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future
The budgeted amount range for this position in the State of Connecticut $96K- $120K. Please note: the salary range may differ in other locations or countries
What's In It For You
At FactSet, our people are our greatest asset, and our culture is our biggest competitive advantage. Being a FactSetter means:
- The opportunity to join an S&P 500 company with over 45 years of sustainable growth powered by the entrepreneurial spirit of a start-up.
- Support for your total well-being. This includes health, life, and disability insurance, as well as retirement savings plans and a discounted employee stock purchase program, plus paid time off for holidays, family leave, and company-wide wellness days.
- Flexible work accommodations. We value work/life harmony and offer our employees a range of accommodations to help them achieve success both at work and in their personal lives.
- A global community dedicated to volunteerism and sustainability, where collaboration is always encouraged, and individuality drives solutions.
- Career progression planning with dedicated time each month for learning and development.
- Business Resource Groups open to all employees that serve as a catalyst for connection, growth, and belonging.
Learn more about our benefits here.
Salary is just one component of our compensation package and is based on several factors including but not limited to education, work experience, and certifications
Company Overview:
FactSet (NYSE:FDS | NASDAQ:FDS) helps the financial community to see more, think bigger, and work better. Our digital platform and enterprise solutions deliver financial data, analytics, and open technology to more than 8,200 global clients, including over 200,000 individual users. Clients across the buy-side and sell-side, as well as wealth managers, private equity firms, and corporations, achieve more every day with our comprehensive and connected content, flexible next-generation workflow solutions, and client-centric specialized support. As a member of the S&P 500, we are committed to sustainable growth and have been recognized among the Best Places to Work in 2023 by Glassdoor as a Glassdoor Employees’ Choice Award winner. Learn more at www.factset.com and follow us on X and LinkedIn.
At FactSet, we celebrate difference of thought, experience, and perspective. Qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law. FactSet participates in E-Verify
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, Business, Computer Science, or related field
- 5+ years in financial data operations or content management with substantial corporate actions experience
- Extensive experience and in-depth knowledge of ISO 15022 and ISO 20022 corporate actions messaging protocols
- Deep knowledge of global corporate action event types and market/regulatory impacts
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with attention to data quality
- Proven stakeholder management, leadership, and communication skills
- Advanced proficiency in Excel
- Proven ability to manage competing priorities and deliver results in a fast-paced, deadline-oriented environment
- Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without employer sponsorship (U.S. candidates)
- Expertise in SQL
- Experience with XML
- Experience with SWIFT formats
- Experience with data automation tools
- Experience with FactSet or comparable financial data/platform providers
- Familiarity with other industry ISO standards
- Familiarity with AI-driven analytics tools
- Advanced degrees or certifications (CFA, CAIA)
Factset Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Factset and has not been reviewed or approved by Factset.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage is positioned as comprehensive, spanning medical, dental/vision in some descriptions, and life and disability insurance. Company-wide wellness days and region-specific add-ons (e.g., Vitality PMI, Bupa dental, Health Shield cashback) further reinforce a strong health-and-wellbeing offering.
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Retirement Support — Retirement savings support is consistently included as part of the core package through retirement savings plans. The presence of these programs is framed as a meaningful component of total rewards beyond base salary.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — An employee stock purchase program is highlighted as a standard part of the total rewards package. This provides a pathway to share ownership alongside cash compensation.
Factset Insights
What We Do
FactSet creates flexible, open data and software solutions for tens of thousands of investment professionals around the world, providing instant access to financial data and analytics that investors use to make crucial decisions. For 40 years, through market changes and technological progress, our focus has always been to provide exceptional client service. From more than 60 offices in 23 countries, we’re all working together toward the goal of creating value for our clients, and we’re proud that 95% of asset managers who use FactSet continue to use FactSet, year after year. As big as we grow, as far as we reach, and as successful as we become, we stay connected to our clients and to each other.
