Associate Specialist, Data Analytics, Finance Data & Automation

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.

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

Posters 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 :

A College or University degree and / or relevant demonstrated work experience

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.