at Northern Trust Company in Chicago, Illinois, United States
Job Description
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.
Join a team where your perspectives, critical thinking skills, and acquired subject matter expertise will directly contribute to servicing clients and help grow the NTHFS Regulatory Reporting practice. The team culture is entrepreneurial in nature and has the feel of a start-up embedded within the well-established Northern Trust brand. The group is continually looking for ways to improve efficiency and effectiveness, so the sharing of feedback and new ideas from every individual, analyst through senior manager, is imperative to achievement of practice goals.
The analyst will be responsible for developing, maintaining, and delivering comprehensive regulatory filings to our clients (e.g. Form PF, CPO-PQR, AIFMD). The partner will develop an end-to-end understanding of hedge fund administration processes as the role necessitates frequent interaction with various internal teams (trading, pricing, fund/investor accounting, etc.) in order to effectively execute assigned responsibilities. The analyst will have the opportunity to develop client management skills early on in his or her career as the position requires communication with senior level hedge fund executives responsible for reviewing and ultimately submitting filings to regulators.
As a key responsibility of this role is the aggregation and presentation of large data sets, the analyst will be trained on internal proprietary systems and data structure. A candidate will benefit from having advanced Microsoft Excel skills, exposure to programming languages, or experience working with data visualization applications such as Power BI . The analyst will have the opportunity to continually build on his or her data manipulation skills through exposure to established regulatory filing processes and assisting in the development of new models to support future product offerings.
Knowledge / Skills
Highly proficient Excel skills.
Attention to detail and critical thinker.
Ability to analyze large quantities of data.
Strong judgment and ability to formulate plans based on needs and leadership styles.
Self-starter, with ability to work effectively both independently and as part of a team.
Executes efficiently and effectively in a deadline driven environment.
Strong communication and project management skills
Leadership and organizational skills are essential to prioritize assignments and provide feedback.
Major Duties
Aggregate and analyze large sets of investment data to comply with Hedge Fund regulation in the US and abroad.
Collaborate with implementation team and clients to customize existing tools and develop new offerings.
Responsible for the end-to-end processing of regulatory filings in a deadline-driven environment, including management of the overall client relationship.
Complete quality control checks on calculations and investigate unexpected deltas period over period.
Review guidance to gain understanding of methodologies and ensure consistent application...
Equal Opportunity Employer - minorities/females/veterans/individuals with disabilities/sexual orientation/gender identity
