Finance Data & Automation (FDA) is redefining how Finance works by transforming fragmented data, manual reporting, and legacy processes into digital products, advanced analytics, and AI-enabled insights. We are looking for a curious, driven innovator who wants to operate at the intersection of Finance, data, technology, and artificial intelligence, helping shape the future of decision-making at Northern Trust. This is an opportunity to solve complex business challenges, influence senior leaders, and build solutions that change the way Finance and the business operate
Major Duties:
• Works with business leaders and stakeholders to understand their strategies, how they align with corporate strategies and determine ways to use analytics to drive decision making
• Defines and develops analytic capabilities that can be leveraged to solve cross-business function challenges in a business unit
• Supports the analytical needs of various business functions in a business unit, enabling strategic prioritization to deliver the most value
• Analyzes and understands Northern Trust’s core business processes and data flows to design and develop enduring solutions that provide analytical insights (both historical and predictive)
• Ensures best practice techniques are used to report the data in a form that is accurate and insightful
• Contributes to the development and delivery of solutions that: leverage and extend existing Business Intelligence and analytics infrastructure; consider metric governance and enterprise solutions alignment; are scalable, repeatable and effective; follow agreed upon governance and technology policies including use of Agile or SDLC processes
• Assists with applying and developing statistical models/methods to address business issues
• Develops metrics and create ad-hoc reporting as needed
• Assists internal customers with operational change management activities required to realize business value from the analytics solution
• Ensures issues are identified, tracked, reported on and resolved in a timely manner
• Rapidly and effectively adapts to highly dynamic and fast-paced work environment
• Participates in special projects as needed and perform other duties as assigned
• Fosters a positive and collaborative environment
• Focus of role is on execution of strategic direction of business function activities
• Acts as a resource for colleagues with less experience
• May lead small projects with manageable risks and resource requirements
Knowledge :
• Seasoned multi-disciplinary expert with extensive technical and/or business knowledge and functional expertise
• Excellent oral and written communication skills are required
• Highly flexible and adaptable to change
• Leadership and organizational skills are required to determine the Business Unit's goals, resources needed, and to assess and develop the skills of staff
• Database systems competence is expected
• Familiarity with data analysis and/or reporting
• Strong mathematical skills required
• Experience with SQL and Excel
• Strong project management skills
• Strong team/relationship building skills
• Familiarity with other analytics tools (e.g., Microsoft Business Intelligence Suite, QlikView, Informatica or other tools) preferred
• Familiarity with relational and dimensional database concepts, querying, data warehouses, requirements gathering and/or decision support tools preferred
• Prior experience using statistical software or knowledge of various data mining and analytical tools (SSRS, SAS, etc.) preferred
Experience :•
• 7+ years of relevant experience.
• A College or University degree in a relevant field.
Working Model: Hybrid (#LI-Hybrid)
We have a balanced hybrid working model to ensure you get the flexibility you need, and the successful candidate will spend their time between working in the office and working from home.
Salary Range:
$95,600 - 162,400 USD
Salary range is a good faith estimate of base pay. Northern Trust provides a comprehensive benefits package including retirement benefits (401k and pension), health and welfare benefits (medical, dental, vision, spending accounts and disability), paid time off, parental and caregiver leave, life & accident insurance, and other voluntary and well-being benefits. Northern Trust also provides a discretionary bonus program that may include an equity component.