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. With more than 130 years of financial experience and over 22,000 partners, we serve the world’s most sophisticated clients using leading technology and exceptional service.
Role
We are currently recruiting for a Senior Consultant within our growing Private Equity Transfer Agency department. This pivotal role involves reviewing the work of a team, monitoring workloads, ensuring adherence to Service Level Agreements, providing leadership, and maintaining an excellent working environment.
Principal Responsibilities
Assist in managing an ever expanding Private Equity Transfer Agency team within our Limerick operation.
Deliver high quality service to clients – both internal and external – by accurate, timely completion of all assigned tasks and requests for information.
Organise workload and team members in an efficient and effective manner.
Ensure Calls / Distributions and Investor Reporting are completed in an accurate and timely manner.
Look to meet and improve the preparation of client reporting.
Seek to learn quickly and strive to continually improve service offered.
Create and maintain a respectful and productive work environment.
Deliver training / coaching effectively.
Understand risk in own team, help others to understand this and to recognise that risk is everyone’s responsibility.
Active liaison with clients and external auditors, dealing with audit queries.
Ensuring agreed client service levels and regulatory filing deadlines are met.
Address partner issues and develop indirect reports on the team, providing objective and regular feedback to staff.
Assist the Department in the annual targets of the business including the development of the offshore team and the automation of the Private Equity’s platform Investran.
Assist with the development and execution of the department’s strategic plans, goals and priorities.
Responsible for the delivery of high quality service to each client assigned to their team.
Communicate effectively with clients, investors and associated parties on fund activities.
Keep abreast of current activities in the Private Equity market as well as industry and regulatory developments.
Skills / Experience
Operational experience in a similar role within Private Equity preferred.
Working knowledge of Sungard Investran would be a distinct advantage.
Client service orientation.
Ability to develop a team.
Excellent attention to detail and numerically competent.
Demonstrates willingness to support with daily BAU where necessary to support the team and to help others outside the team.
Strong prioritisation and multi‑tasking skills.
Strong problem solving skills.
Organises own workload and establishes priorities.
Demonstrates good knowledge of standards and procedures required for own tasks.
Excellent PC skills especially MS Excel, Word, PowerPoint, etc.
Ability to participate in systems development projects.
A track record in optimising system use and automating processes where possible.
Demonstrate leadership and team‑building qualities and ability to motivate others around them.
Ability to communicate clearly and concisely.
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 MyHRHelp@ntrs.com.
We hope you’re 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.
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