Consultant, Client Implementation, OMN

Northern Trust Omnium Fund Services Client Onboarding Specialist

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.

The job involves working for Northern Trust Omnium Fund Services (OMN), a global fund administrator, and is responsible for onboarding clients to the platform. The successful candidate will be an ambitious self-starter who has demonstrated the ability to function as an effective and strategic member in a dynamic, fast-paced and demanding environment. This individual will have a strong industry and/or project management background and excels at working well with others.

Key duties and responsibilities include:

• Interacting with clients, the client's service providers, OMN IT, and OMN shared services teams to onboard new clients.
• Supporting multiple implementation projects simultaneously.
• Working integrally with international partners to troubleshoot queries and provide feedback related to client implementation.
• Providing updates for weekly client meetings, including input for agendas, notes, and takeaways.
• Supporting initiation and maintenance of all necessary project tracking documents.
• Leveraging OMN proprietary tools, financial instruments knowledge, and accounting principles to onboard client's portfolio into the proprietary OMN platform.
• Identifying and communicating bespoke client requests and escalating to manager.
• Interface with internal and external IT to ensure client setup is completed timely and within the constraints of the internal control framework.
• Performing and documenting completion of internal controls.
• Supporting performing all implementation processes related to daily trade break resolution for financial products and transitioning activities to shared services teams prior to go live.
• Performing analysis of financial statements and supporting documents as part of portfolio data validation.
• Performing reconciliations to the source data to ensure the accuracy of data loaded into the OMN platform.

Knowledge and skills required include:

• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office applications and Bloomberg.
• Ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously, with accuracy, and on-time.
• Excellent analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively within a team environment.
• Client service focused.
• Knowledge of basic accounting principles and familiarity with financial markets and instruments is required.
• Highly flexible and adaptable to change.

Education/experience:

• 2-5 years' experience.
• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics or related field.
• Experience with Investment Management, Financial Services, Hedge Fund or Private Equity Funds, and/or project management preferred.