Corporate Actions Specialist

About the role

This position is part of a new financial‑markets infrastructure venture being built from the ground up in Oman. As a Corporate Actions Specialist you will become the operational authority for every corporate action and lifecycle event on the platform, ensuring accurate and timely processing in line with market practice.

Key responsibilities

• Own end‑to‑end processing of corporate actions such as 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 and ensure precise execution of each event.
• Establish and maintain operational relationships with issuers, paying agents, calculation agents and trustees, defining robust procedures and escalation paths.
• Coordinate notification chains across issuers, CSDs, ICSDs, custodians, settlement banks and investors.
• Reconcile lifecycle events, investigate exceptions and resolve breaks within agreed service levels.
• Design the operating model, procedures, runbooks, controls and reconciliation framework during the platform build phase.
• Support issuer onboarding by providing operational expertise on complex issuance structures.
• Collaborate with testing teams to certify participants and ensure market readiness.

Required profile

• Degree in finance, accounting, business, economics or a related discipline.
• At least ten years of 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, ABS, callable/puttable structures, floating‑rate notes and other structured products.
• Proven ability to manage coupon payments, redemptions, restructurings, tax events and complex lifecycle processing.

Required skills