Sr. Client Solutions Consultant - Wealth Management

The Northern Trust Company; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Northern Trust is seeking a Senior Client Solutions Consultant to lead complex client onboarding and transition events, coordinating intake, documentation, funding, and asset movement. The role requires partnering with relationship teams and multiple support groups to ensure a transparent, well-controlled onboarding experience from start to finish.

You will monitor milestones, resolve issues, and maintain clear communications with clients, front/middle/back-office teams, and leadership, driving

Qualifications

• Experience in wealth management, client onboarding, trust or banking operations.
• Strong understanding of onboarding workflows, documentation requirements, operational handoffs, and client servicing standards.
• Ability to lead multiple complex, cross-product onboarding events simultaneously while maintaining accuracy, urgency, and risk awareness.
• Demonstrated ability to coordinate across front office, middle office, back office, and subject matter expert teams.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to provide clear status updates and explain complex requirements in a practical manner.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary coordination owner for assigned complex onboarding and transition events from intake through completion, providing one clear point of contact for status and follow-up.
• Engage directly with clients and relationship teams to understand onboarding requirements, coordinate information and documentation needs, and facilitate progress throughout the onboarding process.
• Assess client, account, product, documentation, funding, fee, tax cost, and risk considerations to determine required workstreams and subject matter expert involvement.
• Coordinate product specific onboarding paths across Trust, Banking, Brokerage, Funding, AML/KYC, Investment, Fee, Tax Cost, Statement Review, and other specialty teams as needed.
• Monitor onboarding milestones, identify potential delays, and escalate issues that may impact client experience, processing timelines, or operational readiness.
• Partner with relationship teams to clarify requirements, reduce duplicate asks, and support clear communication with clients when appropriate.
• Track funding and asset transfer activity, including ACAT, DTC, non-ACAT, cash funding, prior custodian follow-up, settlement timing, and outstanding asset issues.
• Review documentation and intake submissions for completeness and consistency to help prevent Not In Good Order items, rework, and avoidable processing delays.
• Facilitate onboarding review meetings, pipeline discussions, and recurring status checkpoints with applicable business, operations, and support teams.
• Maintain transparent status reporting for stakeholders, including open items, owner assignments, target dates, escalations, and completion readiness.
• Confirm account opening, coding, funding, fee setup, and service handoff activities are complete before closing the transition event.
• Document lessons learned, recurring issues, process gaps, and improvement opportunities to support playbook updates, training enhancements, and future operating model improvements.

Skills

Wealth management

Onboarding workflows

Client servicing

Cross-team coordination

Communication

Workflow tools

Case management systems

Tools

Workflow tools

Case management systems

Microsoft Office

Job description

About Northern Trust

As a global leader in innovative wealth management, asset servicing, asset management and banking services, Northern Trust (Nasdaq: NTRS) is proud to guide the world's most successful individuals, families, corporations and institutions.

Since 1889, we have aligned our efforts with our three guiding Principles That Endure: Service, Expertise, and Integrity. Together, they reflect the three cornerstones of business conduct which we strive to instill in our employees, whom we call partners, and to provide to our clients and the communities we serve worldwide.

With more than 135 years of financial experience and over 24,000 partners, we serve the world's most sophisticated clients using leading technology and exceptional service.

Senior Client Solutions Consultant Job Description

Position Title: Senior Client Solutions Consultant

Department: National Client Support Services / Wealth Management Operations

Reports To: Onboarding Manager or designated Wealth Management Operations leader

Role Type: Individual Contributor / Subject Matter Expert

Position Summary :

The Senior Client Solutions Consultant is the client-facing coordination owner for complex client onboarding and transition events. This role brings together intake, documentation, account-opening, funding and asset movement, fee setup, status communication, issue resolution, and final handoff into one coordinated experience. The Senior Client Solutions Consultant works closely with clients, front office teams, NCSS onboarding partners, funding teams, operations, risk/control partners, and subject matter experts to deliver a transparent, consistent, and well-controlled onboarding experience from intake to completion.

Key Responsibilities :

• Serve as the primary coordination owner for assigned complex onboarding and transition events from intake through completion, providing one clear point of contact for status and follow-up.
• Engage directly with clients and relationship teams to understand onboarding requirements, coordinate information and documentation needs, and facilitate progress throughout the onboarding process.
• Assess client, account, product, documentation, funding, fee, tax cost, and risk considerations to determine required workstreams and subject matter expert involvement.
• Coordinate product specific onboarding paths across Trust, Banking, Brokerage, Funding, AML/KYC, Investment, Fee, Tax Cost, Statement Review, and other specialty teams as needed.
• Monitor onboarding milestones, identify potential delays, and proactivelyescalate issues that may impact client experience, processing timelines, or operational readiness.
• Partner with relationship teams to clarify requirements, reduce duplicate asks, andsupport clear communication with clients when appropriate.
• Track funding and asset transfer activity, includingACAT, DTC, non-ACAT, cash funding, prior custodian follow-up, settlement timing, and outstanding asset issues.
• Review documentation and intake submissions for completeness and consistency to help prevent Not In Good Order items, rework, and avoidable processing delays.
• Facilitate onboarding review meetings, pipeline discussions, and recurring status checkpoints with applicable business, operations, and support teams.
• Maintain transparent status reporting for stakeholders, including open items, owner assignments, target dates, escalations, and completion readiness.
• Confirm account opening, coding, funding, fee setup, and service handoff activities are complete before closing the transition event.
• Document lessons learned, recurring issues, process gaps, and improvement opportunities to support playbook updates, training enhancements, and future operating model improvements.

Required Qualifications :

• Experience in wealth management, client onboarding, trust or banking operations, client servicing, account opening, or related financial services operations.
• Strong understanding of onboarding workflows, documentation requirements, operational handoffs, and client servicing standards.
• Ability to lead multiple complex, cross-product onboarding events simultaneously while maintaining accuracy, urgency, and risk awareness.
• Demonstrated ability to coordinate across front office, middle office, back office, and subject matter expert teams.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to provide clear status updates and explain complex requirements in a practical manner.
• Proficiency with workflow tools, case management systems, Microsoft Office applications, and shared tracking mechanisms.
• Strong attention to detail, follow-through, judgment, and ability to identify when escalation is required.

Preferred Qualifications :

• Knowledge of IJNT, Partner Workstation, BPM, SmartIQ, account documentation, funding, account coding, statement review, and documentation imaging processes.
• Experience supporting high-value, sensitive, cross-product, or complex client onboarding events.
• Familiarity with Trus