Consultant, Financial Reporting

**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 Summary**

The **Consultant, Financial Reporting **supports the Australian Financial Reporting team and will be responsible for monthly, quarterly, half-yearly and annual financial reporting, regulatory reporting and tax reporting to a diverse range of investment manager and superannuation fund clients.

It will be crucial for you to establish a level of client knowledge, to ensure all requirements are met and allow the team to build the relationship further. You will also be involved in managing new client onboarding process as it relates to financial reporting and tax, in conjunction with other teams.

You will report to the Manager of Financial Reporting and Tax.

We are open to both Melbourne and Sydney location.

**What you will do**:

- Provide a high level of client service, and be the first point of contact in relation to all accounting and tax queries for an allocation of clients
- Reviewing financial statements and templates
- Proactively seek to identify and improve current core processes and procedures, ensuring they are updated with changes in regulations and industry trends
- Deliver training and coaching to junior members of the team
- Work closely with other teams to achieve client reporting objectives - Unit Pricing, Business Process Analysts, Client Services, Operations and Technology
- Work closely with Financial Reporting and Tax manager on new product developments and process improvement projects
- Help manage new client onboarding process as it relates to Financial reporting and Tax
- Provide oversight of off shore teams' output and performance
- Ensure sufficient risk management controls are in place and adhered to Northern Trust compliance standards

**About You**:

- Experience working within a Custodian, Superannuation fund, or Investment Manager accounting/tax team
- Strong excel skills and the proficiency in utilizing Financial statements and tax reporting system tools
- Accounting/Commerce/Finance degree qualified ideally with a CA or CPA
- Demonstrated relevant experience in a similar role
- Client service and relationship management

**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.

**Reasonable accommodation**

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.

Job ID R131886
- ABOUT COMPANY
- Northern Trust Company
- Melbourne, Australia
22000 Employees Private Banking / Wealth Management

As a global leader in innovative wealth management, asset servicing and investment solutions, Northern Trust (Nasdaq: NTRS) is proud to guide the worl...