Corporate Actions Specialist

Goodman Masson is partnering with a new financial markets infrastructure venture under formation in Oman. Backed by prominent institutional investors, the business is building a greenfield platform from the ground up, and is now hiring at the build stage. This is a rare chance to help stand up critical market infrastructure from a blank sheet and then run what you have built.

The role

As Corporate Actions Specialist, you will be the operational authority for every corporate action and lifecycle event across the platform. From coupon payments and redemptions through to restructurings, complex structured products and sukuk, you will ensure every event is processed accurately, on time, and in line with market practice. This is a hands-on role for an experienced practitioner who has personally managed corporate actions throughout the full instrument lifecycle, not someone who has only overseen the function from a management perspective.

Working closely with issuers, paying agents, trustees, custodians, ICSDs and CSDs, you will help build the corporate actions function from the ground up, designing the operating model, procedures and controls that will underpin one of the region's newest financial market infrastructures.

What you will do

• Own the end-to-end processing of corporate actions and lifecycle events including coupon payments, redemptions, amortisations, calls, puts, restructurings, defaults, tenders and exchanges
• Manage the full lifecycle of bonds, sukuk, asset-backed securities, floating-rate notes and other structured instruments admitted to the platform
• Build and maintain the corporate actions calendar, ensuring every event is prepared for and executed accurately
• Manage operational relationships with issuers, paying agents, calculation agents and trustees, establishing robust operating procedures and escalation processes
• Coordinate notification chains across issuers, CSDs, ICSDs, custodians, settlement banks and investors
• Reconcile lifecycle events across all counterparties, investigate exceptions and resolve breaks within agreed service levels
• Design the corporate actions operating model, procedures, runbooks, controls and reconciliation framework during the platform build phase
• Support issuer onboarding by providing operational expertise on complex issuance structures and lifecycle event processing
• Work closely with testing teams to support participant certification and ensure market readiness for corporate actions processing

What you will bring

• Degree in finance, accounting, business, economics or a related discipline
• At least ten years' hands-on experience in corporate actions within a paying agent, custody, CSD, ICSD or similar capital markets environment
• Direct experience processing the full lifecycle of bonds, sukuk, asset-backed securities, callable and puttable structures, floating-rate notes and other structured products
• Strong experience managing coupon payments, redemptions, restructurings, tax events and complex lifecycle processing
• Proven ability to coordinate corporate actions across issuers, paying agents, trustees, custodians, CSDs, ICSDs and investors
• Experience reconciling lifecycle events across multiple parties and resolving operational breaks under time pressure
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to explain complex operational processes clearly to both technical and business stakeholders
• Fluent English, written and spoken

Also of interest

• Experience working within a paying agent environment with ownership of redemption processing and lifecycle event management
• Knowledge of sukuk and Islamic finance instruments
• Experience with SWIFT ISO 15022 and ISO 20022 corporate actions messaging, including MT564, MT566, MT568 and seev messages
• Familiarity with Securities Market Practice Group (SMPG) standards
• Understanding of the CPMI-IOSCO Principles for Financial Market Infrastructures
• Experience working within an international financial centre or regulated financial market infrastructure
• Arabic language skills

Location and terms

Based in Muscat, Oman.

Permanent for Omani nationals; two-year fixed-term contract for expatriate hires.

If this is your kind of build, please apply now!