Depositary Consultant, Alternatives

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:
As Depositary Alternatives Consultant you will be a key member of the Northern Trust Global Services SE (NTGS SE) Luxembourg Depositary providing technical, monitoring and operational support and day-to-day contacts with our Alternative Investment Funds clients. The role involves technical coordination and regulatory oversight of operational monitoring programmes. There will be periodic involvementwith other jurisdictions and projects to ensure the seamless delivery of operational support of NTGS SE Luxembourg Depositary clients.

The key Responsibilities of the role include:

- Ensure all Depositary requirements are met and escalate any issues where appropriate to management
- Work with the Depositary Managers and EMEA Product Development to ensure that all client technical advisory requirements are anticipated, responded to and validated
- Ensure that any information relating to the client is disseminated with clarity and efficiency
- Identify and act upon and opportunities to improve operating processes
- Assist with the implementation of Depositary new business and client change
- Monitor and report on the effectiveness of the operational output from delegates and/or third party service providers
- Provide management information and risk reporting specific to Depositary Private Equity clients
- Support in relevant Depositary governance forums
- Build relationships with clients, identifying opportunities to enhance service, delivering on Depositary duties
- Keep up to date with internal and external market developments in the Regulatory field, specifically for the private capital asset sector
- Ensure that all SLD requirements are monitored and met
- Supervise daily, weekly and monthly checks of the depositary function for alternative investment funds
- Liaise with and assist on operational and technical queries internal and external parties relating to Depositary services for alternative investment fund business
- Maintain and update operational procedures in line with expected risk requirements
- Provide local support for all on-boarding initiatives
- Be a team player and strong leadership skills, able to multi-task and work with due skill and attention to accuracy

Knowledge/Skills:

- Solid understanding of the Depositary processes in relation to the alternative funds business in particular private debt and private equity.
- Sound understanding of change and the ability to transition and on-board client relationships
- Proven knowledge of financial services regulations specifically in Luxembourg, EU and the US
- Effective verbal, presentation and written communications skills;
- The ability to adapt to and fit in with the Northern Trust culture;
- A ‘can do’ attitude - including a willingness to tackle a broad range of work and to work enthusiastically within a team
- The ability to work under pressure and to represent Northern Trust professionally and positively, both internally and externally
- Personal confidence and flexibility to undertake the variety of tasks required to build out the proposition and win and support client mandates
- Good training skills and the ability to mentor and educate new members of the team
- Fluent in English language, other EU languages would be an advantage

**Experience**:

- Several years of experience in a Depositary, Custodian, ManCo/AIFM or Fund servicing role pertaining to private equity assets.
- Proven client service experience

Qualifications:

- University degree or equivalent in accounting, economics or finance
- Strong understanding of Alternative Investment Funds, specifically those investing in private equity and private debt assets is a distinct advantage.

Core Competencies:

- Client Focused
- Excellence in Execution
- Effective Communication
- Personal Courage - NT Savvy
- Innovative
- Diversity, Inclusion & Respect

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