Director, Corporate Actions

Alpaca
EU, North America, Americas, APAC
Workplace: RemoteFull timeFunction: Executive & General ManagementExperience: 8+ yearsSkills: ["Leadership","Incident management","Risk management","Stakeholder management","Communication"]

Own Corporate Actions globally across U.S. and international markets, ensuring end-to-end control execution for mandatory and voluntary events. Lead daily production, supervisory controls, incident management, reconciliations, and evidence of review. Build a scalable operating model across custodians, depositories, currencies, and tax regimes, partner cross-functionally to eliminate recurring failure modes, and drive automation and observability to reduce manual processing.

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Director, Corporate Actions

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Job Summary

Own Corporate Actions globally across U.S. and international markets, ensuring end-to-end control execution for mandatory and voluntary events. Lead daily production, supervisory controls, incident management, reconciliations, and evidence of review. Build a scalable operating model across custodians, depositories, currencies, and tax regimes, partner cross-functionally to eliminate recurring failure modes, and drive automation and observability to reduce manual processing.
Location: EU, North America, Americas, APAC
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Executive & General Management
Seniority: Director level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Own the Corporate Actions control framework end-to-end, ensuring events are validated, reconciled, synchronized across systems, and formally closed.
  • •Lead mandatory and voluntary Corporate Actions operations across dividends, splits, mergers, tenders, rights, redemptions, elections, entitlements, and security lifecycle events.
  • •Establish supervisory maker-checker controls, approval thresholds/tolerances, escalation standards, supervisory evidence, and management reporting.
  • •Manage Corporate Actions incidents from containment through root cause analysis, remediation, and permanent control/system improvements.
  • •Drive automation, observability, reconciliation, and exception tooling, and build a common global operating model across markets, custodians, depositories, currencies, and local conventions.

Pay and Benefits

Perks:EquityHealth InsuranceHome Office

Key Requirements

  • •8+ years of Corporate Actions experience within a broker-dealer, clearing firm, custodian, bank, or comparable financial institution.
  • •Prior leadership experience managing a Corporate Actions or securities operations function.
  • •Deep hands-on knowledge of mandatory and voluntary Corporate Actions, including dividends, reorganizations, splits, mergers, tenders, rights, redemptions, elections, entitlements, and security lifecycle events.
  • •Strong knowledge of U.S. market infrastructure, including DTCC/DTC Corporate Actions processes.
  • •Proven experience designing and supervising maker-checker controls, reconciliations, exception-management processes, and operational risk frameworks.
Experience:8+ yearsBroker-dealerFinancial servicesSecurities operationsCorporate actionsClearingCustody
Skills:LeadershipIncident managementRisk managementStakeholder managementCommunication
Languages:English
Tech Stack:DTCCDTCMaker-checkerReconciliationsSecurity MasterTradingLedgerBack OfficeFront OfficeMarginBuying powerCustodiansDepositoriesDepository confirmationWithholdingTax regimes

Company Brief

Alpaca
Provides developer-first APIs and brokerage infrastructure for algorithmic and automated stock trading, enabling fintechs and developers to build trading applications with commission-free market access and custody services.
Industry: Fintech Infrastructure
Company Size: Medium (51 to 250 employees)
Growth: Scaleup
Funding: Series C
Headquarters: San Mateo, United States
Founded: 2015
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