Job Description
**Financial Reporting Manager** Manage a team responsible for producing accurate and timely financial statements for clients, while identifying process failures and improving quality percentages. About Northern Trust: Northern Trust is a globally recognized financial institution with over 130 years of experience, providing innovative financial services to the world's most successful individuals, families, and institutions. **Key Responsibilities:** * Manage a financial reporting team, including conducting performance management and establishing goals/objectives * Consult with clients and partners on effective ways to meet needs, translating into actionable steps * Develop 'early warning' tools to identify process failures and improve quality percentages * Provide unrivalled client satisfaction and continuously improve department performance * Produce accurate and timely financial statements, including interim and annual statements * 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 **Requirements:** * Proven experience in the investment management industry, preferably in fund administration, asset management, or securities operations * Financial reporting experience and knowledge of onshore and offshore funds administration * Demonstrated leadership and team-building qualities, with ability to motivate a team * Strong communication, presentation, and client-servicing skills * Experience with leading fund accounting and financial reporting systems * Knowledge of Irish, UK GAAP, and IFRS experience * Working knowledge of the Irish regulatory regime as it relates to fund accounting and financial reporting **Personal Qualities:** * Disciplined, authoritative, determined * Enthusiastic, good communicator, coach, mentor * Confident, well-balanced, and resilient * Approachable and gain respect * Results-oriented, ambitious, highly driven * Enthusiasm to improve company performance and systems * Ability to think and act creatively **Working with Us:** As a Northern Trust partner, you will be part of a flexible and collaborative work culture, where financial strength and stability 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.