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 world’s 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 22,000 partners, we serve the world’s most sophisticated clients using leading technology and exceptional service.

Role/ Department:

A vacancy has arisen in our Private Equity (PE) Operations team. Northern Trust offers a first class service to a variety of PE clients and work as a close team to ensure deliverables are met.

You will be working as a key member within the administration team whilst providing additional support to the wider team that administers a very large client with an active investment portfolio across multiple fund products.

Key components of the role include liaising with internal teams and the Investment Advisor, completion of client bespoke tasks, completion of investment administration and dealing with ad-hoc queries as they arise, all within scheduled timeframes and ensuring that all client KPIs are met.

The key responsibilities of the role include:

• Providing a premier client service by building strong relationships with the Investment Advisor and any other third parties including working closely with the client to resolve queries and other teams within NT to ensure completion of client deliverables.

• Developing a thorough knowledge of your client and their bespoke requirements with regards to key processes performed in their systems.

• Support the monitoring of assigned mailboxes, completing tasks assigned by the senior fund administrator or management.

• Support other team members with workloads and rotate tasks on a regular basis.

• Investments: Create and maintain investment and portfolio records in the client’s bespoke systems, including preparing and processing of purchases and disposals; recording of income receipts; monitoring receipt of monthly or quarterly valuations and understanding other types of complex investment transactions and restructurings.

• Fund operations: Undertake daily cash management duties, bookkeep valuations in structures, perform periodic reconciliations and prepare invoice coding for all fund products.

• Client reporting: Develop client specific knowledge to facilitate the preparation of regular reporting for the client’s senior management, finance, investor relations and deal team. This includes having detailed understanding of fund structures and the investment portfolio across fund products.

• Investor reporting: Complete adhoc queries for investors where qualitative data forms a part of the response; and other stakeholder reporting: support preparation and review of reports within set deadlines.

• Risk management & efficiencies: To identify efficiencies and areas for improvement to reduce risk and become more efficient; ensuring that technology available is being fully utilized in the most efficient manner; working with technology to resolve any issues and improve processes; ensure full and proper reporting to your manager of any operational issues and where delays are expected to flag any service delivery issues as early as possible; and ongoing review of daily controls and communications of any new ideas or suggested procedural changes.

Skills/ Qualifications:

The successful candidate will benefit from having:

• Previous experience of fund administration of private equity funds, credit funds or perpetual funds is necessary;
• The ideal candidate would have business or financial services qualification or studying for same;
• Be computer literate with proven ability to learn new systems and processes, with data literacy skills advantageous;
• Possess excellent organisation skills with the ability to handle multiple priorities, escalating issues where necessary;
• Have customer service orientation with a concern for quality including being effective in the use of a variety of communication methods;
• Ability to problem solve and be a team player.

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.

We’d love to learn more about how your interests and experience could be a fit with one of the world’s most admired and sustainable companies! Build your career with us and apply today. #Made For Greater

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.

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