Agnieszka Siemińska

• Co-ordinate with custodians and ensure receipt of correct information on corporate actions
• Co-ordinate decisions with relevant parties and reflect activity accurately on Portia
• Assist team members with intra-day tasks/queries as required
• Collect, follow up and check all relevant information received in relation to corporate actions
• Checking custodians' information agrees with independent sources (e.g. IDC/Bloomberg)
• Ensuring that notices have been received for all holders
• Communicate on a regular basis with the Custodian regarding any incomplete / inaccurate notices
• Co-ordinate and interact with Investment Administrators and Fund Managers to ensure that they are informed of all voluntary corporate actions. Obtain timely responses on corporate actions, from the fund managers
• Process all entries. This includes: running holding reports, setting up new securities (if required), calculating how costs should be allocated between parent and new securities, entering data under the parent stock record, generating the transactions and making any necessary updates, running reports to check that the nominal and costs have been allocated correctly, make updates if required, posting entries on PTS (Bloomberg) for the relevant clients.
• Advise Supervisor of any irregular instances or issues and keep informed of progress
• Compliance - Inform legal dept. and the Investment Administrator of any class actions on securities that are held / purchased during the relevant period.

• Daily processing of corporate actions on MCH in a busy and challenging environment.
• Working within team of 3 people but also on own initiative.
• Understanding the theoretical and technical nature of all corporate actions and security types.
• Maintenance of files for all forthcoming issues.
• Review and verification of share holdings and market movements.
• Research and verification of Corporate Action information using FT, Bloomberg, Custodian/Agent network.
• Dealing with queries from clients and other departments.
• Developing and maintaining a relationship with the other departments.
• Reporting to the Team Leader/Manager in Corporate actions.
• Daily checking of security prices and exchange rates.
• Daily monitoring of Cash Reconciliations.
• Checking of stale prices and implementation of appropriate action.
• Checking of feeds to ensure that correct prices are being received.

• Covering Australian, New Zealand, UK and Polish Market.
• Working within team of 12 people but also on own initiative.
• Identifying and gathering financial data (dividends, corporate actions, take-overs & mergers information) using websides, informational e-mails, stock exchanges.
• Manually inputting data into a database in an accurate and timely manner.
• Monitoring market activity and new developments.
• Answering client queries promptly using an online query resolution system.
• Maintaining relationship with the other department.
• Participating in cross training and providing regular feedback to supervisor on training/development needs.