Vote Execution Analyst

Advance your career with the leading provider of corporate governance and responsible investment solutions. Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) empowers investors and companies to build sustainable financial and social value by providing high quality data, analytics, and insight. Our clients rely on ISS' expertise and capital stewardship to help them make informed investment decisions, and our people are equally passionate about positively impacting the communities where we live and work. If you want to be a part of an exciting work culture that values innovation, collaboration, and provides you with the support you need to make a difference, we'd love to hear from you! Join our team at ISS!

POSITION OVERVIEW:

Agenda Mapping analysts monitor and reconcile the various agendas associated with our clients proxy meetings to ensure that their ballots are properly ingested into our systems and votes are submitted downstream accurately. Analysts work with internal operations teams, and external proxy distributors in order to achieve this mission. Analysts monitor a number of daily and monthly reports in order to identify and resolve potential issues and continually work to create new or improve existing processes. Analysts also work with internal and external groups to improve application functionality, operational efficiency, and communication between all involved parties with regards to the proxy voting process.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Monitor the processes by which information and data are added to or exported from production systems through electronic data feeds and other media.
• Maintain data to ensure quality of mission critical information using both proprietary applications and commonly used business software applications.
• Work with account managers and client on boarding to ensure that required client data is received in a timely and high quality manner.
• Ensure comprehensive audit trails are in place for data that is received from or sent to production systems.
• Support development of training documentation and systems to support growing team.

In addition to the above operations responsibilities, the following activities are representative of the different functions for the team:

Voting Operations - Agenda Mapping:

• Serve as a subject matter expert with regards to the sourcing and internal reconciliation of various agenda sources within the market.
• Monitor and resolve agenda related issues for ISS clients.
• Coordinate across multiple ISS teams to ensure that agenda questions and issues are resolved promptly.
• Responsible for operations specific Key Performance Indicators.
• Timely resolution of workflow related processes and internal questions.
• Additional duties as assigned by manager.

DESIRED EXPERIENCE AND QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor's degree
• Excellent oral and written communications
• Excellent organizational and administrative skills
• Strong computer skills with office applications
• Team player and an excellent relationship builder
• Demonstrated analytical skills with strong attention to detail
• Demonstrated Project Management skills - defining of scope, resources and time lines, and managing to deliverables
• Innovative, motivated, client-oriented and commercially-aware thinker
• Absolute personal and business integrity

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Featured Benefits include:

• Medical, Dental and Vision - multiple PPO plans to choose from
• 401(k) Plan with a competitive Company Match up to 9% inclusive of Safe Harbor contribution
• FSA and Commuter benefit programs
• Generous Paid Time Off (annualized minimum of 20 days vacation, 11 holidays and separate paid sick leave)
• Flexible Work & Hybrid policies may apply
• Paid Parental Leave

ISS is an Equal Opportunity Employer and complies with the Veteran and Disability Acts.