Corporate Actions Manager

The Corporate Actions Manager leads a Fund & Investment Operations team to achieve fund and investment operational and strategic objectives.  This role maintains a compliant and high-performing operating environment, ensures service level agreements are met, and drives process improvement efforts.

The Corporate Actions Manager:

• Hires, evaluates, and supervises crew. Provides guidance and training as necessary to develop crew. Sets performance standards, reviews performance, and makes informed compensation decisions in accordance with all applicable Human Resources policies and procedures.
• Develops and implements the team's operational framework. Leads collaboration between leaders to ensure regional and global consistency of process implementation related to data management, collateral management, corporate actions, reconciliation, etc. Consults and advises key stakeholders, acts as subject matter and technical expert, identifies and resolves complex operational issues. Leads internal control framework improvements and formulates strategic recommendations.
• Proactively identifies and mitigates external events and regulatory changes that impact team. Oversees various control standards to ensure compliance globally.
• Leads improvements of financial and performance management for the team, and forecast reports and serves as the global subject matter expert. Proactively anticipates portfolio events and leads process enhancement initiatives. Performs root cause analysis and applies findings to global process improvement efforts.
• Serves as subject matter expert for global teams and collaborates with internal and external partners to support global operations. Leverages strong industry knowledge to support relationship management.
• Leads improvement initiatives to anticipate business needs and portfolio events. Develops tools to streamline and improve service delivery.
• Participates in special projects and performs other duties as assigned.

What it takes:

• Minimum of five years related work experience, with at least two years of financial services or operations experience. Supervisory experience preferred.
• Undergraduate degree or equivalent combination of training and experience. Accounting or Finance degree preferred. Graduate degree preferred.
• CFA or other financial designation preferred.

Preferred skill set:

• Proven leadership experience (this role is leader of leaders.)
• VG Brokerage exp.
• VMS trained
• Corporate Actions exp.
• Strong decision making skills

Special Factors

Sponsorship

Vanguard is not offering visa sponsorship for this position.

About Vanguard

We are Vanguard. Together, we’re changing the way the world invests.

For us, investing doesn’t just end in value. It starts with values. Because when you invest with courage, when you invest with clarity, and when you invest with care, you can get so much more in return. We invest with purpose – and that’s how we’ve become a global market leader. Here, we grow by doing the right thing for the people we serve. And so can you.

We want to make success accessible to everyone. This is our opportunity. Let’s make it count.

Inclusion Statement

Vanguard’s continued commitment to diversity and inclusion is firmly rooted in our culture. Every decision we make to best serve our clients, crew (internally employees are referred to as crew), and communities is guided by one simple statement: “Do the right thing.”

We believe that a critical aspect of doing the right thing requires building diverse, inclusive, and highly effective teams of individuals who are as unique as the clients they serve. We empower our crew to contribute their distinct strengths to achieving Vanguard’s core purpose through our values.

When all crew members feel valued and included, our ability to collaborate and innovate is amplified, and we are united in delivering on Vanguard's core purpose.

Our core purpose: To take a stand for all investors, to treat them fairly, and to give them the best chance for investment success.

How We Work

Vanguard has implemented a hybrid working model for the majority of our crew members, designed to capture the benefits of enhanced flexibility while enabling in-person learning, collaboration, and connection. We believe our mission-driven and highly collaborative culture is a critical enabler to support long-term client outcomes and enrich the employee experience.