Corporate Trust Default & Restructuring Specialist

Computershare U.S.; Columbia (MD); Hybrid; USD 105,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid parental leave

Health benefits

401k matching

Income protection

Disability & life insurance

Job summary

Computershare U.S. is seeking a senior professional to administer complex trust accounts in Corporate Trust’s Default & Restructuring Group.

You’ll manage defaults, bankruptcies, restructurings, litigation, and distressed debt matters, coordinating with counsel, clients, and internal partners. You will provide due diligence, risk assessment, and strategic recommendations while supporting transaction execution and process improvements.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
• 8-10+ years of corporate trust, restructuring, bankruptcy, legal, or related financial services experience.
• Juris Doctor or Master in Business Administration preferred.

Responsibilities

• Administer complex default, bankruptcy, restructuring, workout, and distressed debt transactions, including due diligence, risk assessment, and resolution of escalated issues.
• Provide specialized expertise and leadership for assigned accounts, serving as the key contact among clients, counsel, financial advisors, and internal partners to facilitate complex workout, restructuring, and litigation matters.
• Manage special situations, including defaults, litigation, restructurings, successor trustee appointments, and other strategic transaction opportunities.
• Identify, assess, and elevate legal, operational, financial, and reputational risks, and present key issues at watchlist, risk, and senior management meetings.
• Partner effectively with internal and external stakeholders, including counsel, governance and control, communications, and senior management, to drive successful transaction outcomes.
• Support business growth and operational excellence through management reporting, account reviews, extraordinary expense recovery, process improvements, and strategic initiatives.

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Job Description

Location (Hybrid)

Columbia, MD – Canton, MA – Chicago, IL – Houston, TX – Jersey City, Jersey – Louisville, KY – Minneapolis, MN – Denver, CO – New York, NY – North Palm Beach, FL – Sacramento, CA – St. Paul, MN – Wheeling, WV – Wilmington, NC – Shelton, CT

In this position, you’ll be based in one of the listed offices for a minimum of three days a week, with the flexibility to work from home for some of your working week. Find out more about our culture of flexible working.

We give you a world of potential

This role operates within Corporate Trust’s Default & Restructuring Group and administers complex bankruptcies, restructurings, litigation, depositions and other distressed trustee relationships in the Conventional Product division supporting multiple product groups including Corporate Debt, Municipal Conduit, Housing and Paying Agent products, and Agency & Lease products. The role manages escalated trust matters, including defaults, workouts, insolvencies, and holder inquiries, while coordinating with attorneys, financial advisors, issuers, bondholders, and internal partners.

The position evaluates risk, provides strategic recommendations, supports transaction execution, and helps protect the company from legal, financial, operational, and reputational risk while operating within contractual, prudent person, regulatory, and internal policy requirements.

A role you will love

Responsible for administering and managing complex trust accounts requiring specialized expertise in defaults, bankruptcies, restructurings, litigation, depositions and distressed debt matters. Provides due diligence, risk assessment, client relationship management, and strategic recommendations while supporting transaction execution, workouts, and insolvency proceedings. Partners with internal and external counsel, clients, and other stakeholders to identify and mitigate legal, financial, operational, and reputational risks, maximize recoveries and indemnification protections, and ensure compliance with contractual, prudent person, regulatory, and internal policy requirements. Presents and escalates significant matters to management and supports business development and process improvement initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

• Administer complex default, bankruptcy, restructuring, workout, and distressed debt transactions, including due diligence, risk assessment, and resolution of escalated issues.
• Provide specialized expertise and leadership for assigned accounts, serving as the key contact among clients, counsel, financial advisors, and internal partners to facilitate complex workout, restructuring, and litigation matters.
• Manage special situations, including defaults, litigation, restructurings, successor trustee appointments, and other strategic transaction opportunities.
• Identify, assess, and elevate legal, operational, financial, and reputational risks, and present key issues at watchlist, risk, and senior management meetings.
• Partner effectively with internal and external stakeholders, including counsel, governance and control, communications, and senior management, to drive successful transaction outcomes.
• Support business growth and operational excellence through management reporting, account reviews, extraordinary expense recovery, process improvements, and strategic initiatives.

Essential

What will you bring to the role

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.

8-10+ years of corporate trust, restructuring, bankruptcy, legal, or related financial services experience.

Preferred

Juris Doctor or Master in Business Administration.

Corporate trust default administration, bankruptcy, restructuring, or distressed debt experience.

Rewards designed for you

Paid parental leave, flexible working and a caring and inclusive culture.

Health and wellbeing rewards that can be tailored to support you and your family, including medical, dental and vision.

Invest in your future with 401k matching and tax-advantaged flexible spending plans, including healthcare, dependent care and commuter.

Income protection. Our package includes short and long-term disability benefits, life insurance and supplemental life insurance.

And more. Ours is a welcoming and close-knit community, with experienced colleagues ready to help you grow. Our handbook will help you find out more about our rewards and life at Computershare, visit computershare.com/careers-handbook.

Compensation.

The typical base pay range for this role is $105,000 - $130,000 in Sacramento | Chicago | New Jersey | Columbia | Canton | St. Paul |New York | Denver. The base pay range is specific to these locations and may not be applicable to other locations. This role also has a targeted bonus opportunity of 10%.

About Us

A company to be proud of

We're a global leader in financial administration with over 11,000 employees across more than 22 different countries. At Computershare, it’s more than just a job, our open and inclusive culture means that we will help you to grow, to move forward and make the most of our world of opportunities.

Fairness and culture

We want to provide you with the opportunity to succeed on your own merits, starting from the application process and continuing throughout your career with us. Our goal is to create an environment where everyone feels valued, to remove barriers and obstacles and ensure equal opportunities for all. For support with accommodations or adjustments during our recruitment process please visit computershare.com/access for further information.

About The Team

We're a market leader with decades of experience as a provider of trustee and sophisticated agency services for private and public companies, investment bankers, asset managers, and governments and institutions. Our organisation offers a broad range of services with a best-in-class reputation built on our high-touch approach to client service. We're lookingfor people to join us and be a part of our exciting future as one of the top corporate trust firms in North America.