Technical Coordinator

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.

Asset Pricing:

The Asset pricing team is responsible for pricing all securities in client portfolios on a regular basis. This involves pricing of all non-derivatives securities based on the appropriate pricing frequency. The Pricing Department has teams located in Chicago, Limerick, Bangalore and Manila.

Process objective is obtaining prices from reliable and established pricing vendors in the marketplace and price securities using appropriate price types of bid/offers, last traded, settlement and evaluated prices for each security held by our clients in accordance with NT's Pricing Guidelines.

Job Description:

The position requires in-depth knowledge of financial markets and various financial instruments like Equities, Fixed Income securities, Funds, CFDs, P-Notes etc. The role requires working in a team that has high complexity and criticality. Includes supporting and working closely with the Team Leaders and Section Manager for implementation of business plans.

This role's primary responsibility is not limited to manage BAU, but also to ensure all activities are executed by the team as per procedures/ SLAs. Act as the primary point of contact for any process issues, timely review of checklists and documents, ensure all tasks are completed in a timely manner and signed off for the day, manage training requirement of the team and take care of stretch assignments and projects for the team.

The Technical Coordinator position will report to Team Leader in NOSAI Manila.

Major Duties

• Ability to Handle, Escalate and resolve Pricing queries in a timely manner.

• Take active role in settling of new 'Pricing Operating Platform' (POP) Program.

• Deliver high quality service to clients by accurate, timely completion of all assigned tasks and requests for information.

• MIS & Reporting: Generating and maintaining MIS reports pertaining to process delinquency/ recoveries/variances/ corrective actions and presenting the same to the management for facilitating decision making.

• Continuous review of new and established processes to ascertain Risk areas within the same and introduce necessary checks & controls to mitigate any kinds of risk and also ensure compliance of procedures and policies of the Process / Organization.

• Assist with the provision of data for the internal and external audit process. Conduct MOC audit, participate in Internal Audit/External audit to ensure the process adheres to the audit standards and requirements.

• To highlight the operational gaps, updated control and escalate the necessary issues to the Management.

• To proactively and effectively establish a level of client knowledge ensuring all requirements is met and allow the team build the relationship further.

• Deliver training /coaching effectively.

• Respond flexibly to the needs of the current situation, amend own work program to deliver desired outputs

• Manage any potentially difficult situations which may impact on the clients by developing a close working relationship with client services.

• Develop early warning techniques for process failures.

• To have a thorough understanding of the theoretical and technical nature of Asset Coding specifically hands on experience on AIP is preferred.

• To create, maintain and update procedures for the process.

• To ensure full and proper reporting to the manager of any operational issues

• Where delays are expected to flag any service delivery issues as early as possible and ability to work on ad-hoc activities.

• Partner should be flexible to work in any of the 3 locations (Ecospace & Manyata )

Knowledge/Skills

• Desired knowledge of POP, Enterprise & Fund Master. AIP and IMS knowledge supplementary.

• Good working knowledge of Industrial vendors and vendor applications such as ICE, Reuters & Bloomberg.

• Client Servicing

• Risk Management

• Policy analysis, quality control

• MIS Reporting

• Experience in handling critical queries and managing internal partner area expectations.

• Industry Knowledge - Knowledge of various financial instruments & reference data.

• Attention to detail.

• Good communication skills.

Experience 

• Graduation Degree in B.Com/BBM/MBA etc.

• 5 plus years of work experience in a Financial Institution with a minimum of 2 years in Securities pricing or related activities with evidence of strong technical and procedural expertise is preferred. 

• Knowledge of Financial Instruments and Corporate Action events, familiarity with financial market Vendors is strongly preferred.

Other Requirements

• Partners are expected to be flexible to support business requirements across multiple shifts.

• All other NOS IJP criteria's to be met. 

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. #MadeForGreater

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.