Senior Analyst, Transfer Agency (Reconciliations)

About The Role:

The Transfer Agency department provides a third party fund administration service to numerous fund management companies covering the full range of shareholder servicing functions including dealing, registration, settlements, distributions, commissions and statements.

Working as part of a dedicated Reconciliations Team, the individual will be responsible for the execution and oversight of reconciliations on a daily basis. The individual will ensure that all client service standards and regulatory requirements are met together with working with partners in different jurisdictions.

Principal Responsibilities:

• Responsible for reconciling all assigned accounts accurately and efficiently within relevant deadlines.
• Day to day oversight of processing quality and timeliness of offshore teams, seeking appropriate information from local management there where required
• Liaise with the other Transfer Agency partners to monitor and report on the Aged Reconciliation items
• Liaise with clients and investors to resolve and report unreconciled items
• Working with other team members to ensure Reconciliations Team Mailbox is kept up to date at all times and that e-mails are actioned/filed promptly and within the standard SLD.
• Attendance at internal/client meetings as required
• Maintain a close working relationship with other Transfer Agency areas, such as Dealing, Registration, and other internal areas such as the Client Services
• Fulfil additional, relevant, tasks appropriate to the role and business requirements
• Achievement of monthly KPIs
• Attend all mandatory training within the required deadlines
• Comply with the regulatory regime in which Northern Trust operates as appropriate to the above role.
• Exercise due care and diligence, ensuring the areas the incumbent is responsible for are organised and controlled.
• Observe proper standards of market, business and personal conduct, demonstrating integrity in the execution of duties.
• Foster and maintain relationships with key internal and external stakeholders

Skills / Experience Required:

• Previous Financial services experience desirable.
• Transfer Agency Finance experience is an advantage.
• Ability to review and resolve complex issues
• Ability to work under pressure meeting challenging deadlines
• Strong Microsoft excel skills
• Experience in working with Multiple Currencies
• Knowledge of regulatory environment is highly desirable
• Customer Service experience would be preferred
• Excellent planning and organisation skills
• Ability to work on own initiative
• Effective verbal reasoning and numeric skills (Essential)

About Northern Trust:

For more than a century, Northern Trust has worked hard building our legacy of outstanding service, expertise and integrity. From a Chicago-based bank founded in 1889, we now have more than 20 international locations and 18,500 employees globally. We serve the world’s most-sophisticated clients – from sovereign wealth funds and the wealthiest individuals and families, to the most-successful hedge funds and corporate brands.

We burnished our reputation as a global leader delivering innovative investment management, asset and fund administration, fiduciary and banking solutions enabled by sophisticated, leading technology. And through it all, we continually laid a solid, forward-looking foundation on which future generations can continue growing and achieving greater.

Northern Trust proudly cultivates a diverse workforce, to serve our diverse client base. We strongly believe that diversity of experience contributes to a broader collective perspective that will consistently lead to a better company. We encourage applications from the best regardless of ethnicity, gender, gender identity, age, nationality, disability, sexual orientation, education, socio-economic background, parental and caring status, or religion.

As of March 31st ,2019, Northern Trust Corporation had:

• $10.9 trillion in assets under custody/administration
• $8.2 trillion in assets under custody
• $1.2 trillion in assets under management
• $122 billion in banking assets

For further information, and to apply, please visit our website via the “Apply” button below.