Research Analyst - GPD Corporate Actions

FactSet is a leader in providing research and analytical tools to finance professionals. FactSet offers instant access to accurate financial data and analytics around the world. FactSet clients combine hundreds of databases from industry-leading suppliers into a single powerful information system.

Dividends/Splits Group is responsible for collecting dividends per share into FF universe and slotting them into specific fiscal periods. We’re also responsible for reviewing splits in our database.

Job Responsibilities:

• Responsible for doing the daily activities of the team, to include: Daily Ingest, QA Checks from Genesys, Internal RPDs
• Collects dividends per share and slot them according to their fiscal periods.
• Reviews splits added on the Fundamentals database.
• Answers dividend and split related queries.
• Analyst will click on New Dividend queue and will be assigned a record from the queue (by priority). Slot the dividend
• Details will be reviewed like the dates, values, and compare it to the data exposed by the Corporate Actions Team in product.
• Scheduled feed of dividend records we need to collect, update, or delete. Records are ingested in the collection tool
• Manually update the dividend dates and values.
• Cancelled/Postponed Dividends – Review StreetAccount alerts for any possible dividend cancellation
• Checking data in product – through SQL query, FQL codes or directly in Workstation.

Job Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Commerce / Business Management / Finance / Accounting /Economics and equivalent courses
• Interest in Global Stock Exchanges, Investing and Equity Trading.
• Outstanding time management, prioritization, and independence as well as keen attention to detail.
• Comfortable in dealing and analyzing large datasets
• Flexible, willing to learn technical terminologies/processes
• Excellent communication/comprehension skills both verbal and written
• An ability to work under pressure to real time data issues
• Computer literate: Preferably proficient in working with MS Excel
• Willing to be assigned in any shift.

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