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Job Description
Northern Trust Job Description
Job Title: Financial Reporting Manager
Responsible for managing a financial reporting team, including conducting performance management processes. Establish goals and objectives for the team and monitor timely and accurate completion of related tasks. Develop 'early warning' tools to identify process failures and improve quality percentages.
Key Responsibilities:
- Provide unrivalled client satisfaction and continuously improve department performance.
- Produce accurate and timely financial statements, including tax reporting requirements.
- Monitor accounting operation process to ensure 100% quality and timeliness of deliverables.
- Identify training and development needs and establish performance standards for the department.
- Guide staff in resolving non-routine and complex financial reporting issues.
- Support cross-functional communication and knowledge sharing to achieve company success.
- Conduct Partners in Performance Development Reviews and address development and training needs of self and team.
- Manage employee-related administration duties and recruit, select, manage, motivate, and conduct probationary reviews for direct reports.
- Produce accurate and timely management information reporting and analysis.
Requirements:
- Proven experience in the investment management industry, financial reporting, and management roles.
- Leadership and team-building qualities with ability to motivate a team.
- Strong communication, presentation, and client-servicing skills.
- Evidence of successful negotiation skills.
- Detailed knowledge of onshore and offshore funds administration, particularly Irish/UK GAAP and IFRS experience.
- Working knowledge of Irish regulatory regime related to Fund Accounting and Financial Reporting.
- Systems knowledge of leading Fund Accounting and Financial Reporting systems.
- Process skills to provide input into long-term strategy for the department.
- Client service experience representing businesses to clients via presentations.
- People management experience managing teams and delegating responsibility.
- Business management experience jointly managing the ongoing success of NT Ireland.
- Personal development skills to develop further as the business grows.
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