Sr. Consultant, Omnium Services

About Northern Trust:

Northern Trust a Fortune 500 company is a globally recognized award-winning financial institution that has been in continuous operation since 1889.

Northern Trust is proud to provide innovative financial services and guidance to the worlds most successful individuals families and institutions by remaining true to our enduring principles of service expertise and integrity. With more than 130 years of financial experience and over 22000 partners we serve the worlds most sophisticated clients using leading technology and exceptional service.

Role

The role involves working for Northern Trust Hedge Fund Services a global fund administrator specializing in complex hedge funds and alternative asset investments. The successful candidate will be an ambitious self-starter who has demonstrated the ability to problem solve in a dynamic fast-paced and demanding environment. This individual will have a strong technical background and experience working on various RISK intitaives across the Middle Office teams. The candidate will work under supervision and in a team environment performing requirements gathering process analysis documentation and reporting/ visualization.

Principal Responsibilities

Core

• Provide risk oversight and advice to the business units

• To safeguard business operations and client interests.

• Ability to identify control gaps and successfully interpret regulatory guidance.

• Communicate with senior management and risk and controls team.

• Collaboration with risk partners and business unit partners to drive process improvement.

• Plan/Setup meetings with key stakeholders (Business Risk Compliance IT) manage the meetings through a structured agenda and document discussions

• Develop action plans for resolution of outstanding issues

• Engage with teams for process updates and disseminate the same to the larger team

• Should be capable of adding and reviewing various control checks

• Conduct training for existing and new team members

• Should have the ability to maintain various MIS reports and should ensure timely completion of all the MIS and other ad-hoc reports to be submitted to management

• Engage in the projects assigned by Management

• Error Analysis and Error discussion with focus on reducing the errors and increasing quality scores

• Identify current and potential issue and escalate and work with manager to their resolution

Accountabilities

• Employees are required to comply with the regulatory regime in which Northern Trust operates as appropriate to the above role

• Employees are expected to exercise due care and diligence ensuring the areas the incumbent is responsible for are organised and controlled

• Employees are required to observe proper standards of market business and personal conduct demonstrating integrity in the execution of duties

• Reports to Manager

Skills

• Be able to mentor through confidence and approachability

• Approachable and able to promote teamwork through creative solutions

• Good analytical numerical and reasoning skills

• Able to present to clients

• MS Office word and excel proficient

• Deep understanding of process and process improvement

• Experience in designing and implementing training plans

• Strong knowledge of Financial products like Hedge funds

• Self-starter with the ability to function independently in a fast-paced dynamic and demanding environment .

• Effective Time Management Skills

CORE COMPETENCIES

• Interpersonal (relationship builder respectful resolves problems people friendly and organisational savvy)

• Communication (presentation skills listening skills oral communication skills allows others to express themselves and written communication skills)

• Self-management (adaptability and resilience learning behaviour integrity and ethics and relationship builder)

• Motivation (performance standards achieving results and persistent)

• Thinking (creative thinking decision making input seeking logical thinking and solution finding)

• Organisational Knowledge (business knowledge expert knowledge and external events impact)

• Client Service and Quality (quality relationship building and client satisfaction)

• Administration (anticipates needs execution planning process specialist quality seeker and time management)

• Leadership (addresses difficult issues builds effective teams focused on goals champions new initiatives fosters development gives timely feedback and coaching Idea generator and sets challenging performance standards)

• Initiative and negotiation (succeeding in passing round or over possible issues taking a first move and acting independently through proven long term planning)

EXPERIENCE

• Candidate to have at least 9-12 years of experience in hedge fund accounting/

• Preferred:

  • ACAI

  • CFA

  • MBA (Finance & Accounting)

  • M COM

  • ACCA

Working with Us:

As a Northern Trust partner greater achievements await. You will be part of a flexible and collaborative work culture in an organization where financial strength and stability is an asset that emboldens us to explore new ideas.

Movement within the organization is encouraged senior leaders are accessible and you can take pride in working for a company committed to assisting the communities we serve! Join a workplace with a greater purpose.

Wed love to learn more about how your interests and experience could be a fit with one of the worlds most admired and sustainable companies! Build your career with us and apply today. #MadeForGreater

Reasonable accommodation

Northern Trust is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process please email our HR Service Center at .

We hope youre excited about the role and the opportunity to work with us. We value an inclusive workplace and understand flexibility means different things to different people.

Apply today and talk to us about your flexible working requirements and together we can achieve greater.

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