Northern Trust

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.

• Acting product owner of Northern Trust's proprietary reconciliation platform, of which the below responsibilities are included
• Includes a diverse stakeholder group to refine requirements for development
• Responsible for refining a product backlog of prioritized development
• Daily support of product development including but not limited
• Requirements are documented clearly and understood by all relevant parties
• Test plans are thorough
• Validation and feedback through testing is timely
• Performs risk assessment of development solutions to determine appropriate testing strategy
• Support training as deemed required of new technology solutions for both internal and external users
• Participate in discovery sessions with new clients to determine impact to development scope
• Support migrations to new technology including but not limited to
• Training business users on new technology.
• Oversee execution of migration
• Refine requirements of development requests to expedite migrations
• Gather feedback of new technology from early adopters
• Takes a new perspective on existing solutions
• Maintains a consistent feedback loop with business and development owners
• Collaborate directly with project managers, agile managers and scrum masters on milestones of both short-term (e.g. end of day milestone) and long-term (e.g. release milestone)
• Help to define product strategy and determine both tactical and strategic roadmaps for their respective product
• Execute against product roadmap priorities and ensure key stakeholders are actively engaged
• Seasoned multi-disciplinary expert with extensive technical and/or business acumen and functional expertise

KNOWLEDGE/SKILLS

• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills (“solutions-oriented” mindset)
• Strong organizational and prioritization skills
• Client relationship focused (internal and external relationships)
• Is experimental and embraces continuous improvement
• Explains difficult or sensitive information; works to build consensus
• Flexible and adaptable to change; capable of being a ‘change agent’ to identify and drive productivity transformation
• Usage of workflow tools like Jira or Azure DevOps
• Knowledge of software development life cycle and common frameworks (scrum, kanban, waterfall)

EXPERIENCE

• Must have at least one of the below, multiple is preferred
• Supported an agile transition in an organization
• Supported a major client onboarding (multiple over career preferred)
• Responsible for testing new technology updates
• Acting business analyst of a component of technology at your organization
• Support a project where technology solutions solved complex problems
• Experience working with colleagues outside reporting lines
• Experience with Investment Management and/or Financial Services
• Alternative Asset Management specific strongly encouraged
• Has mentored and trained colleagues to perform their function well
• Experience with Reconciliation tools and the process of reconciling data
• A College or University degree and relevant proven work experience
• Certifications are a plus
• Agile (product owner, scrum master, etc.)
• CPA, CFA

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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.