Associate Accountant (Fees and Billing)
Skills / Experience
Required Competencies
- Meticulous attention to detail with an ability to work in a fast paced environment where month end financial reporting deadlines and compliance with documented controls and processes are paramount.
- Highly numerate with strong analytical skills.
- Exceptional relationship building skills targeted at ensuring deliverables are met with both internal and external partners.
- Motivated, enthusiastic and positive personality.
- Strong planning and organisational skills.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Strong client focus.
- Ability to assess issues, identify solutions and problem solve on a timely basis.
- Ability to adapt and react positively in a changing and dynamic work environment.
- Ability to partner effectively with peers, management, business and overseas partners.
- Ability to work in a global team environment effectively to ensure critical deadlines are met.
- Flexible approach towards changing work methods, deadlines and variable workloads.
- Continuous improvement mind-set.
- Self starter with the ability to work autonomously.
- Motivated, positive and enthusiastic
Required/ Preferable Skills
- Advanced level of IT skills notably MS Excel.
- Experience in Fund Administration/Transfer Agency/Operations within Financial Services is preferable.
- Experience in a billing and accounts receivable function of a multinational organisation is preferable (financial services experience an advantage).
- Experience in a compliance focussed environment.
About Northern Trust
For more than a century, Northern Trust has worked hard building our legacy of outstanding service, expertise and integrity. From a Chicago-based bank founded in 1889, we now have more than 20 international locations and 16,500 employees globally. We serve the world’s most-sophisticated clients – from sovereign wealth funds and the wealthiest individuals and families, to the most-successful hedge funds and corporate brands.
We burnished our reputation as a global leader delivering innovative investment management, asset and fund administration, fiduciary and banking solutions enabled by sophisticated, leading technology. And through it all, we continually laid a solid, forward-looking foundation on which future generations can continue growing and achieving greater.
Northern Trust proudly cultivates a diverse workforce, to serve our diverse client base. We strongly believe that diversity of experience contributes to a broader collective perspective that will consistently lead to a better company. We encourage applications from the best regardless of ethnicity, gender, gender identity, age, nationality, disability, sexual orientation, education, socio-economic background, parental and caring status, or religion.
As of March 31, 2018, Northern Trust Corporation had:
- $10.8 trillion in assets under custody/administration
- $8.1 trillion in assets under custody
- $1.2 trillion in assets under management
- $130 billion in banking assets