Senior Consultant- Business Management

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

1. Obtain, analyze and summarize market intelligence for the region
2. Responsible for the delivery & management of monthly management reporting requirements
3. Business Strategy and Growth
   1. Partner with the management team to develop priorities to enable delivery of the overall strategy for the business
   2. Drive change through prioritization and alignment of resources
   3. Own and ensure delivery of initiatives
   4. Work to align teams to business priorities
4. Business Performance and Planning
   1. Optimize business performance by driving key initiatives
   2. Input into the annual business budget process including resource budgeting and allocations to achieve business priorities
   3. Participate in and track investment / productivity initiatives across the business to achieve multi-year targets
   4. Develop ad-hoc analytics to help the business better understand and manage its costs, risks, capital usage, pricing, growth opportunities, etc.
5. Regulation, Risk and Controls
   1. Work to understand the impact of new regulations on the business and how that may impact the business strategy
   2. Respond to requests from Regulators as required.
6. Ad Hoc / General Business Management Support.

Knowledge

1. Seasoned expert with strong technical and / or business knowledge and functional expertise
2. Strong communication skills, together with influencing and relationship-building are important attributes for the role. The ability to maintain confidentiality is essential
3. Some cost management experience including preparation of budgets and monitoring expenses for large functions is beneficial
4. Able to collaborate across lines of businesses and work with central/corporate organizations, building a strong network
5. Working with big sets of data and analyzing this to find conclusions.
6. Translating initiatives into a presentation. Must be able to present findings and translate data into corporate presentations.
7. Drive trends and provide new conclusions or perspectives on new findings.
8. Working collaboratively with business partners: HR, Compliance and Finance in order to support day to day business activities
9. Strong documentation skills, having the ability to document process flows and/or business requirements when needed
10. Expert Microsoft PowerPoint and Excel skills

Experience

1. Solid experience within Financial Services.
2. Prior experience of producing MI for senior stakeholders alongside resource and budget management.
3. A university/college degree or equivalent and/or relevant proven work experience is required
4. Ability to operate autonomously with an ability to face off to the management team, demonstrates a willingness to take initiative and work independently, a problem solver
5. Ability to understand the strategic business vision; focus on improving the bottom line
6. Experience in supporting a capital markets business, either in a BAU, consulting, or change the bank capacity. Preference for experience with Foreign Exchange markets.
7. Sound judgment, professional maturity and personal integrity, strong work ethic, proactive and results-oriented outlook, possess courage to ask tough questions and challenge the status quo
8. Strong attention to detail

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.