Consultant Transfer Agency

**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.

**Northern Trust - Consultant, Transfer Agency**

**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/ Department**:
Reporting to the Manager of Transfer Agency Asia, the Consultant - Transfer Agent (TA) is responsible for overseeing the performance of the TA activities outsourced to offshore centers in accordance with the agreed service level. The TA is also required to provide offshore TA support to the other home locations. The TA builds and maintains a strong partnership with the Northern Trust Transfer Agency Department in Ireland, UK, Singapore, Manila, India to deliver a high quality service to Northern Trust's clients and their fund investors.

**The key responsibilities of the role include**:

- Oversees outsourced functions to ensure timely and accurate completion by TA partners in offshore location including tasks processed through Northern Trust's workflow process such as dealing, registration, settlement and reporting.
- Liaise with offshore TA partners to ensure that tasks performed are in accordance with the fund's requirement, Northern Trust's procedures and applicable regulatory requirement.
- Highlight and timely escalate material issues and exceptions to management.
- Respond and assists in problems and critical issues as escalated by the offshore TA team, as well as those received from clients.
- Prepare and up activity associated with audit/review.
- Prepare service review pack and attend the service review meeting with offshore TA on their performance.
- Complete checklist and prepare dashboard, End of Day Hand over report and any other management reporting as required.
- Performs additional work where volume or absence requires such workload to be completed.
- Support projects and any ad hoc tasks as assigned by the TA manager.

**Qualifications**:

- Required language - verbal and written English and Japanese
- Experience in day-to-day Transfer Agent processes and procedures on investment funds
- Strong organizational and communication skills

**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 R130267
- ABOUT COMPANY
- Northern Trust Company
- Melbourne, Australia
22000 Employees Private Banking / Wealth Management

As a global leader in innovative wealth management, asset servicing and investment solutions, Northern Trust (Nasdaq: NTRS) is proud to guide the worl...