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.
Scope
The successful candidate is responsible for managing large scale, enterprise-wide Programs. Programs involve delivery of critical strategic business, data and interoperability capabilities that impact multiple business units or disciplines. The function manages a BU project or program to successful outcome.
This role is responsible for aligning resources, overseeing the budget, creating project plans and tracking key milestones/risks/dependencies using the Scaled Agile Methodology. This is the key coordinator to ensure Implementation of critical business capabilities or regulatory change.
- Focus of role is on execution of a program initiated to deliver a change in the strategic direction of business function activities; expansion of critical business capabilities or implementation of cross business unit regulatory change.
- Manages implementation of complex initiatives involving multiple disciplines and/or ambiguous issues
- Displays a balanced, cross-functional perspective, liaising with the business and technology to improve efficiency, effectiveness and productivity
- Communication of program objectives; risks; issues and overall status to multiple levels of the organization.
- Facilitation of cross discipline (business unit) coordination for decision making regarding scope; prioritization and issue resolution.
- Mentors BA team.
- Drives the resolution of issues identified working closely with operations teams and external partners to agree revised business processes or technical changes.
- Collaborate and communicate with third parties, executive sponsors and senior management stakeholders and partner groups in particular the supported business function to ensure that all initiatives are efficiently managed and delivered.
- Build credible, trusted advisor relationships with the key stakeholders at all levels of the organization and also third parties.
- Delivers regular progress reports which present a concise, accurate status of the project, ensuring a consistent status is communicated up to the overall program.
Required Experience
- Highly motivated, team player, self-starter and ability to work independently
- Detail oriented, strong analytical skills, advanced judgment capability, strong problem solving, and ability to manage workflow
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Remaining calm under pressure, having excellent negotiation and conflict management skills with sufficient gravitas and credibility to work with the other PM’s on the project to manage resources, dependencies etc.
- Financial industry knowledge.
- Experience working with Agile release Trains.
Nice to have
- Knowledge of Asset Servicing Custody business
- Strong understanding and experience of trade life cycle.
- Experience in managing cross program Dependencies, Interoperability and Data.
- Awareness of Swift messaging standard.
- Knowledge of T2S.
- Experience of ADO or Jira.
Salary Range
$114,700 - 194,900 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.
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 MyHRHelp@ntrs.com.
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.
