Senior Consultant, Private Equity Fund Accounting

Overview 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 We are currently recruiting for a Senior Consultant within our growing Private Equity Fund Accounting department. This is a pivotal role within the overall division. The Senior Consultant has responsibility for reviewing the work of a team and is also tasked with monitoring workloads, and ensuring adherence to Service Level Agreements. The Senior Consultant is also responsible for providing leadership for the team and ensuring an excellent working environment at all times.
Principal Responsibilities Assist in managing an ever expanding Private Equity 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 Net Asset Values (NAVs) and Valuations 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.
Addressing partner issues and development of 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 accounting platform Investran.
Has responsibility for assisting with the development and execution of the department’s strategic plans, goals and priorities.
Responsible for the delivery of high quality service to each of the clients assigned to their team.
Liaises with new clients to determine fund structure and level of detail required to support striking of NAV.
Communicates effectively with clients, investors and associated parties on fund activities.
Keeps abreast of current activities in the Private Equity market as well as industry and regulatory developments.
Skills /Experience Holds a recognised Professional Accounting Qualification with extensive post QE experience.
Detailed knowledge of Irish/UK GAAP/US GAAP and IFRS.
Working knowledge of the Irish regulatory /tax regime as it relates to Fund Accounting and Financial Reporting.
Knowledge of or willingness to quickly gain knowledge of Private Equity Fund Administration.
Client service orientation
Ability to develop a team
Good attention to detail
Demonstrates willingness to support with daily BAU where necessary to support the team and to help others outside team
Good prioritisation and multi-tasking
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
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 a others around them
Ability to communicate clearly and concisely
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.
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.
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