Team Leader, Financial Analysis

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.

About the Team:

Northern Trust’s International MRP&A team provides financial information and business support to business management across its International business in EMEA, APAC and Canada. This includes the production of monthly financials, key performance ratios, analysis of business and financial data and drivers, and monthly forecasts across its business segments. In addition, the team supports business management in assessing pricing decisions across clients and products and plays a key role in acting as advisor and consultant to management in supporting business decision making. The International MRP&A team operates a ‘hub and spoke’ model whereby business reporting is produced by a central reporting team based in Limerick and Manila (‘the hub’) with finance partners in each International business location providing direct support to business management in their location (‘the spoke’).

Role Summary

Direct responsibility for leading a team in Manila (currently 5 partners) with oversight of deliverables for the International reporting hub. This role is responsible for assisting to ensure the delivery of high quality, relevant, timely and insightful information to our business management and MRP&A business partners across our International Business while adopting consistent and standard processes. The role reports to the Head of The International MRP&A Reporting Hub.

Principal Responsibilities

Leadership and Management

• Manage, develop and oversee a highly efficient, high performing and robust reporting team in Manila
• Assist to set clear and measurable goals and objectives for the team and individuals, ensuring performance assessments are completed in line with corporate requirements
• Ensure that the team are appropriately integrated, aligned and operating effectively as part of the broader International MRP&A function as well as the wider Corporate Financial Management community

Operational

• Oversee the monthly production of the business financials and related reporting across all International business segments, ensuring that all reporting is produced in line with defined standards, in a consistent manner and on a timely basis
• Oversee detailed analysis and interrogation of monthly financial data with appropriate analysis of financial performance variances to plan, forecast and prior period
• Oversee the production of monthly forecasts all International business segments in line with defined processes
• Ensure all queries from business management, MRP&A business partners and Business Unit Finance Teams are responded to and resolved in a timely manner
• Recommend and implement standardized process improvements identified in day-to-day activities ensuring improvements are in line with best practice and corporate guidelines
• Working with the Head of the International Reporting Hub and other business partners, input to and oversee the implementation of future enhancements to reporting

Other

• Develop an in-depth knowledge of financial and management reporting systems, ensuring that the team as a whole remain current and proficient in the use of all systems and data interrogation
• Demonstrate the ability and desire to share knowledge in the form of training, mentoring or coaching others
• Complete adhoc project work as required

Skills / Experience

Required Competencies

• Strong leadership skills Self-starter with an ability to self-motivate
• Strong planning and organizational skills
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Highly numerate with strong analytical skills and high attention to detail
• Ability to assess issues, identify solutions and problem solve
• Ability to react and respond on a timely basis
• Ability to adapt and react positively in a changing and dynamic work environment
• Ability to work as part of a team in the region and as part of the broader EMEA financial management team

Required Skills

• Financial Services background with experience in managing a team
• Advanced level of IT skills notably MS Office 365
• Cognos and TM1 experience (preferable but not essential)

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.

We’d love to learn more about how your interests and experience could be a fit with one of the world’s most admired and sustainable companies Build your career with us and apply today.

Reasonable accommodation

Northern Trust is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please email our HR Service Center at

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.

Apply today and talk to us about your flexible working requirements and together we can achieve greater.

About Our Manila Office

The Northern Trust Manila office celebrated a decade of excellence in 2024. Through agility, resiliency, innovation, and excellence, they have evolved into a dynamic hub with diverse capabilities and a thriving workforce of over 1,200 — driving meaningful impact and sustainable growth. Learn more.

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