Corporate Actions SME - Leading Hedge Fund – Lucrative comp package

A major, global multi-strategy hedge fund are looking to hire an individual into a ‘Corporate Actions SME’ role for its European business, based out of their rapidly expanding London office.The firm currently have a sizeable operations team in London and similar to their overseas HQ they will now look to create specialised functions within operations / middle office - the new hire will be the SME for the corporate actions remit specific to its European business. This is a high volume, complex, multi-asset business, where the hire must be prepared to work a hands-on corporate actions processing remit, whilst also being the point of escalation both internally and externally for the CA remit (for example taking ownership for managing relationships with in-house traders and external prime brokers – the role is heavily desk facing). The hire can also expect to work with senior management from operations and engineering teams to help develop infrastructure (process improvement / automation) specific to the corporate actions remit. The role has the potential to work its way up to an EMEA Corporate Actions Manager role, supervising juniors within a couple of years.Candidates must be corporate actions specialists from either hedge fund or IB backgrounds. Our client favours candidates with strong academic profiles and advanced tech skills.The role will offer the hire a substantial increase on his/her current base salary, a sign-on bonus, a guaranteed bonus for Q1 2026 and a target bonus range for 2026 that will be a large % of base. For a top performer, this will be very highly paid role.