Fund Accounting Operations Manager, Fund Accounting (Limerick)

Job Description Responsible for managing an accounting operations group(s) such as corporate trust reporting, security clearance, and personal savings and deposit services, including conducting the performance management process and providing input for staffing and disciplinary actions. Monitors accounting and recordkeeping processes to ensure timely and accurate client reports. Ensures that adequate systems supports are obtained and maintained. Monitors productivity and quality of output. Major Duties Manages an accounting operations group. Conducts the performance management process, provides input for hiring and disciplinary actions, and provides hands-on training to staff. Develops periodic goals, organizes the work, sets short-term priorities, monitors all activities, and ensures timely and accurate completion of the work. Manages and controls various functions in an accounting operations group to ensure a timely and accurate product/service. Prepares schedule of assignments or directs subordinate coordinators to ensure processing is completed within timeframe. Provides technical expertise for new or complex accounts and oversees new accounts on an on-going basis to ensure that client needs are met. Determines most efficient method of setting up or processing accounts. Provides management reporting on transactions, including statistics on volume, productivity, new development and service impact to clients. Cultivates and maintains working relationship with relationship managers and other operations areas to ensure client account activity meets client needs. Assists client, partners, and staff with complex problem resolution. Consults on effective ways to meet client needs or appropriate method to be used for resolution of an error. Interacts with various operations areas to improve processes, oversee software installations, and research processing problems or resolve client inquiries. Provides hands-on training for new staff and on-going training of experienced staff. Knowledge/Skills Knowledge of financial industry operations, including fiduciary services and use of trust systems, usually acquired through experience in related areas, is required to ensure productivity of the section. Knowledge of accounting and legal reporting requirements is required to manage aclient reporting unit. Leadership and organizational skills are required to develop periodic goals and to motivate team members towards the goals set 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 September 30, 2017, Northern Trust Corporation had: $131 billion in banking assets $7.8 trillion in assets under custody $9.7 trillion in assets under custody/administration $1.1 trillion in assets under management