Senior Administrator - ECD

Management Level

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Senior Administrator, ECD - Part time, 3 full days per week

Equiniti is a leading international provider of shareholder, pension, remediation, and credit technology. With over 6000 employees, it supports 37 million people in 120 countries.

EQ’s vision is to be the leading global share registrar, offering complementary services to its client base and our values set the core foundations to our success. We are TRUSTED to deliver on our commitments, COMMERCIAL in building long term value, COLLABORATIVE in our approach and we IMPROVE by continually enhancing our skills and services. There has never been a better time to join EQ.

We are recruiting for a part time Senior Administrator to join our Operations team. This varied role will give the successful candidate significant exposure to Equiniti’s UK Shareholder Services environment.

Role Summary

This is a part time, 3 full days per week, flexi role. Current working days are Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. This is a hybrid role; candidates can be based in the Worthing or London office, plus WFH

Our ECD Trust and Corporate products offer;

• An execution only share purchase, sale and FX order placement facility for Employee Benefit Trusts and Corporate clients
• An Asset Servicing facility, including client onboarding, custody and asset movement, corporate actions and dividends.

You will be expected to support the delivery of key operational tasks, developing specialist knowledge and liaising with key stakeholders. The role supports Trust and Corporate clients and interacts with other facets of our department, including HNW clients, Share Plans, Certificated transactions and IPOs.

Core duties and responsibilities:

• Be an integral part of the team, performing operational work processes and activities within regulatory timeframes, including;
  • Client Trade order preparation and reporting
  • FX execution
  • Broker to Broker asset movements
  • Stock withdrawals and deposits
  • Preparation of Client payments
  • Client reporting and account reconciliation
  • Corporate actions / Dividends
• Act as a liaison between corporate clients and internal departments including Operations, Dealing and Relationship Managers
• Complete BAU work with a moderate degree of supervision
• Be able to act as an informal resource for colleagues with similar/less experience
• Identify key issues and patterns from partial/conflicting data through validation of instruction
• Expected to take a broad perspective to problems and spot new, less obvious solutions
• Work in conjunction with the Manager to achieve department goals
• Observe COBS / CASS rules when performing operational functions

Skills, Attributes and Behaviour:

• Asset servicing experience, UK preferred
• UK Crest settlement knowledge desirable
• Excellent organisational and planning skills
• Able to work autonomously within established procedures and practices
• Comfortable when working under pressure, in a fast-paced and evolving environment
• Enthusiastic and willing to further knowledge of systems and products
• Excellent communication skills – to external and internal stakeholders
• Excellent numeracy skills – be logically minded
• Good working knowledge of Excel.
• Experience within a client facing service environment preferred
• Adopt a flexible approach to working hours when volumes dictate; additional hours will be required
• Knowledge of COBS / CASS rules desirable

What We Offer

• Save For Your Future - Equiniti Pension Plan; Equiniti matches your pension contributions up to 10%
• All Employee Long Term Incentive Plan (LTIP) – Gives all EQ Colleagues the opportunity to benefit if the current owners successfully sell the company for a profit.
• Health and Wellbeing – Employee Assistance Programme: counselling, legal & wellbeing support for colleagues and their households. Life assurance cover at 4x salary with the ability to purchase enhance cover.
• Employee discounts – Discounts and cashback at your favourite high street stores through our EQ Wins Platform.
• Flexible Benefits – The ability to purchase a wide variety of benefits through our flex plan; gadgets, travel insurance, will writing, holiday trading and more.
• Time Off – Typically pro rata 28 days holiday + bank holidays. 2 volunteer days to get involved with a charity of your choosing.

We are committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.

Please note any offer of employment is subject to satisfactory pre-employment screening checks. These consist of 5 year activity & GAP verification, DBS or Access NI, Credit, Sanctions & CIFAS checks.