Consultant Client Onboarding

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. The Fund Event Team is central to the ongoing success of our business growth as we are the pivot point between our clients and our operational teams during the project management of our client’s fund event initiatives. It is a highly dynamic and evolving role at the forefront of new products, regulatory changes and shifting client needs. As a member of the fund event project team you will be:

• Active management of direct and indirect communications with clients, service providers, fund management companies, custodians, portfolio managers and brokers in order to successfully run fund events in line with the defined scope and time
• Helping to coordinate the operations teams involved in fund events (launches, mergers, migrations, liquidations…);
• Ensuring that events are coordinated through the whole production life-cycle of the fund by using established best practices and project tools;
• Maintaining project plans, RAID logs, runbooks and any other project related documentation;
• Identifying and escalating issues including system functionality, data availability, resource availability and the scope or scale of on-going projects;
• Assist the Client Service Delivery Managers in identifying any changes to service level reporting or deviation from standard operating models raised in the project environment to ensure they are captured appropriately in service level agreements.

Requirements:

• Excellent analytical, interpersonal and organizational skills;
• Inquisitive by nature and a fast learner;
• A good understanding of the financial industry, especially funds and asset servicing, from an operational and business perspective;
• The ability to stay focused and analytical under pressure;
• Flexibility and adaptability in dealing with an evolving operating model and with an evolving business environment;
• Able to prioritize business requirements to manage deliveries within agreed deadlines;
• Excellent at communicating; both in writing and verbally in English. French and/or German would be an important advantage.

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 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.