Junior Operations Analyst - Global Meeting Services

Governance offerings include objective governance research and recommendations, and end-to-end proxy voting and distribution solutions. Institutional clients have long turned to ISS to apply their corporate governance views, identify environmental, social and governance risk, and manage their complete proxy voting needs on a global basis. ISS covers approximately 44,000 meetings in 115 countries yearly, delivering proxy research and vote recommendations while working closely with clients to execute more than 10.2 million ballots representing 4.2 trillion shares.

About the Team

The Global Meeting Services provides data support and services covering markets worldwide including US, Canada, UK, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand and Asia Pacific. The team continuously monitors and obtains relevant information on all upcoming corporate action events specifically shareholders meetings where topics such as acquisitions, mergers and demergers, election of directors and auditors might be discussed. The relevant meeting results are also collected. The information collected is accurately inputted in the database and this will be generated for clients to see. Collected information is also used by other teams for further data collection and research for the ultimate issuance of ISS Vote Recommendations.

Responsibilities

• Monitoring corporate action events such as shareholders meetings from various sources like EDGAR, SEDAR and Stock Exchanges of each market
• Procuring relevant shareholder meeting documents such as Annual Report, Notice of the Meeting, Information Circular, Proxy Form and other Corporate Governance documents
• Contacting the companies or issuers by email or phone for engagements Collecting meeting details such as the date, type, record date, location, time, voting instructions
• Ascertaining securities (ISIN, SEDOL, CUSIP and CINS) that have the relevant voting rights in a meeting
• Extracting the meeting agenda and encoding it to the database to make clients aware of the agenda /resolutions that will be voted at the meeting
• Inputting correct Voting Instructions such as the Valid Vote Options; Market Deadline Date and details of the Registrars
• Collecting results of the meetings and inputting it to the database Assisting in any other relevant projects that might be assigned from time to time

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Economics, Finance, Accounting, or equivalent
• Willing to have an entry-level position
• Excellent oral and written communications
• Excellent organizational and administrative skills
• Strong computer skills with office applications
• Team player and an excellent relationship builder
• Demonstrated analytical skills with strong attention to detail
• Demonstrated Project Management skills – defining of scope, resources and timelines, and managing to deliverables
• Innovative, motivated, client-oriented and commercially-aware thinker
• Absolute personal and business integrity

FRESH GRADUATES ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPLY.