Fund Accounting NAV Specialist

at  Northern Trust Corp

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:
This role is within Northern Trust’s growing UK Fund Accounting team. This team looks after more than 10% of all UK Authorised Funds for numerous Fund Management clients. Within the Department the Funds are split by Client. This role is for oversight of our offshore locations, and service the clients’ needs relating to the NAV process. The successful applicant will have exposure to a range of products.
This specialist role will report to the Head of NAV Oversight alongside three Managers running Nav Oversight teams. They will be focusing on operational readiness for the NAV Oversight and Production teams for new clients and existing client change.

The key responsibilities of the role include:

• Lead and assist the team with NAV change through governance and project management
• Provide clear status updates on change inflight back to the Change Team
• SME knowledge expected on UK OEICS, equities, bonds. Pooling funds, Pension schemes
• Required to learn multiple clients nuances to ensure SME resource
• Attend client meetings as the SME to discuss client change
• For projects impacting NAV Oversight represent as business lead, requiring you to recognise the risks and business constraints to the process
• Work with the offshore team as an escalation point on projects impacting the end to end NAV process

Skills / Qualifications

• Strong knowledge and experience of Fund Accounting
• Has a detailed understanding of the industry and NT, in particular NT’s systems, infrastructure and process/data flows
• Strong communication, first class presentation and internal and external client-servicing skills
• Excellent Project Management skills

Qualifications

• Project Management qualifications advantageous (e.g. PRINCE2)
• Completed modules in the IOC (or Industry standard equivalent).

• Complies with the companies policy on educational standards.

  The successful candidate will benefit from having:

• Experience in Fund Accounting role, production experience an advantage

• Management skills to work within a global team.
• Ability multitask to achieve deadlines for client deliverables.
• Knowledge of the FCA regulations pertaining to Unit Trusts, Mutual Funds, OEICs and all the above mentioned fund types i.e. COLL.
• The job holder must possess good interpersonal skills for liaising with other members of their team, other Internal Departments, Trustees/Depositaries, Custodians, Auditors, offshore locations and the Fund Management Companies to which we provide a service.
• Disciplined, authoritative, determined
• Identifies solutions as well as issues
• Ability to prioritise workloads effectively
• Takes initiative to improve areas outside of immediate responsibilities

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. #MadeForGreater
Reasonable accommodation
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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

• Lead and assist the team with NAV change through governance and project management
• Provide clear status updates on change inflight back to the Change Team
• SME knowledge expected on UK OEICS, equities, bonds. Pooling funds, Pension schemes
• Required to learn multiple clients nuances to ensure SME resource
• Attend client meetings as the SME to discuss client change
• For projects impacting NAV Oversight represent as business lead, requiring you to recognise the risks and business constraints to the process
• Work with the offshore team as an escalation point on projects impacting the end to end NAV proces