Team Lead, Fund Accounting

Team Lead, Fund Accounting

**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 primary responsibility of the **Team Leader** is to supervise and support a team of Senior Analysts and Consultants within the Fund Accounting team. The Team Leader reports to the Team Manager and assists with workflow distribution and maximizing the effectiveness of the team. You are also responsible for organizing work of the team, assigns tasks, sets short-term priorities, monitors all activities and ensures timely and accurate completion of the work. You will also conducts performance management and career development processes, and staffing and disciplinary actions.

**What you will do**
- Responsible for work flow distribution and the effective use of resources within the team
- Responsible for ensuring accurate completion of NAVs across various Fund Accounting Clients
- Provide on the job technical training and coaching for all team members and brief staff regularly on issues relating to work carried out by the team and new initiatives/investments restructures
- Organize the work of the team, assign tasks, set short-term priorities, monitor all activities and ensure timely and accurate completion of the work
- Ensure all procedures are kept up to date and are adhered to on a daily basis
- Assist the Team Manager in establishing goals and objectives for the team
- Generate process enhancement ideas and co-ordinate the introduction of these changes with supporting documented procedures
- Participate and manage internal and external projects initiatives as and when they arise.
- Manage new clients onboardings along with new onboarding team and internal operation teams.
- Conducts performance management and career development processes, and staffing and disciplinary actions

**About You
- A College or University degree and/or relevant work experience is required Experience of Fund Accounting is required
- Supervisory experience is desirable Excellent oral and written communication skills are required. The role will require the ability to deal confidently and articulately with internal and external counterparties
- Analytical and problem solving skills are required
- Leadership and organizational skills are needed to prioritize assignments and provide feedback to staff
- Ability to set priorities and manage deadlines, escalating issues where necessary
- Good team player, self-starter, flexible, with the ability to work under pressure with mínimal supervision

**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 R123204