Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP is one of Canada’s leading business law firms, and they are seeking an Equity Management Platform Specialist. This role involves managing client equity data across various platforms, coordinating client onboarding, and ensuring compliance with legal standards in equity management.
Responsibilities
- Managing the migration of client equity data (shares, options, convertible securities) from client minute books to equity management platforms, including reviewing and extracting relevant information from corporate records and inputting information in the appropriate format
- Coordinating the onboarding process for clients, including liaising between the client, legal teams and platform support
- Establishing expertise as a super-user of the various equity management platforms and working with the platform support teams to develop processes that comply with Osler standards (e.g. Canadian stock option requirements; Canadian tax requirements)
- Serve as a key point of contact for clients regarding equity management matters, providing guidance and support on platform usage, data entry, and reporting
- Reconciling and resolving discrepancies between minute book records and data stored on equity platforms, including working with complex capitalization tables, lengthy minute books, and datasets consisting of multiple financing rounds
- Collaborating with lawyers in the Emerging High Growth Companies Group to reconcile deficiencies in client equity data, including conducting audits to ensure integrity and accuracy of data sets
- Updating and maintaining client platform accounts to reflect changes in equity data such as (i) share issuances, exchanges and transfers in connection with primary and secondary financing rounds, and (ii) stock option administration including option issuances, option exercises, and amendments to equity incentive plans
Skills
- This position requires a college Law Clerk diploma and/or a university degree with an interest in the legal industry
- The ideal candidate will have an understanding of Canadian corporate law and at least one year of work experience reviewing, updating and maintaining minute books for corporations, with an emphasis on equity management
- Strong analytical skills, attention to detail and a problem-solving mindset
- Ability to manage and prioritize tasks across competing deadlines
- Familiarity and experience working with equity management platforms (e.g. Carta, Mantle, Pulley, Shareworks) and legal entity management software (e.g. ALF Corporate, Athennian)
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- A collaborative team player who also works effectively independently
- Client-focused, with a commitment to high-quality service
- Strong ability to learn and adapt to existing business practices
- Experience in a professional services environment is an asset
- An equivalent combination of education, training and experience may be acceptable
Company Overview
- Osler is a leading business law firm uniquely positioned to advise Canadian, U.S. It was founded in 1862, and is headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, CAN, with a workforce of 1001-5000 employees. Its website is http://www.osler.com/.