Consultant, International Cash Management

**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 Cash Management team is responsible for the analysis of cash holdings across multiple APAC currencies, working closely with Treasury to provide accurate and timely information to enable investment decisions, and for ensuring sufficient liquidity is held at our sub-custodian and agent bank network to meet our market obligations. In addition, the **Consultant** supports broader team functions including management of liquidity for AUD payment flows within the RTGS payment system.

In this role, you will be part of a small and dynamic operational team, reporting to the Manager, International Cash Management, and will build and maintain relationships and knowledge across business, operations, technology, and strategic change teams globally.

**What you will do**:

- Work closely with the Treasury department to calculate and determine currency investments, mitigate risk, and ensure smooth settlement across APAC currencies
- Proactively identify and manage potential liquidity issues, liaising with internal and external parties to mitigate settlement risk
- Perform monitoring and funding across sub-custodian and agent bank accounts
- Retrospectively analyse funding and investment decisions, putting in place remedial actions to aid in future decision making
- Assist to manage day-to-day team deliverables, including query management, reconciliation, and ad hoc reporting requests
- Provide support to the wider team and business unit functions, participating in cross-training and learning opportunities to strengthen team resiliency
- Participate in and lead initiatives, including continuous improvement, market or internal changes, and other small to medium sized projects

**About You**:

- Demonstrated understanding of Global Custody and/or related securities and payment functions
- Strong operational experience, with cash or liquidity management experience desired
- Independent decision making, takes ownership for own actions and outcomes
- Sets priorities and manages competing deadlines, proven organisational skills
- Demonstrates innovative approach to problem solving
- Solid analytical/research skills
- Communicates effectively with staff/managers at the appropriate level
- Ability to identify process inefficiencies and develop procedural improvements
- Proven related business experience.

**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.

In Australia, we are actively involved in many ways with both community and diversity organisations, which includes paid volunteer days. For families, we offer a very generous parental leave scheme, and all staff have access to subsidised health insurance if they choose.

**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.