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.
Payment Operations– Senior Consultant
Scope Of Role
The role is required to work within the Payments Standards and Control Group (PSCG) within the Northern Trust (NT) Asset Servicing (Payment Operations) Business. The twin objectives of the PSCG are to ensure:
- NT’s payments are processed in a regulatory compliant manner;
- NT’s payments are processed with the optimum level of operational efficiency.
Core Responsibilities
- Regulatory Reporting – gathering source payments data and generating regular reporting for validation. Preparing regulatory reports for onward validation by regional risk teams.
- Ongoing payments data quality checking, both in relation to regulatory compliant messages being sent and received, and in relation to operational efficiency rates: internal and external STP monitoring and corrective action where necessary.
- Act as part of the PSCG investigations team in relation to dealing with matters of payments format, charges, and agent/market practice.
- Performance of some senior roles within the team – for example and without limitation:
- agreement of service descriptions with compliance stakeholders;
- maintenance of procedure documents, including keeping them up to date and ensuring process changes are properly recorded;
- maintenance of continuity plans and internal records and checklists;
- working with audit services to test and improve our procedures and controls.
Knowledge/Skills
- Strong payments knowledge & good understanding of NT’s business & payment use-case scenarios.
- Good understanding of international payment regulation and a forensic mindset to interpret payment regulation.
- Excellent problem solving skills and an ability to adapt well to change.
- Clear written style to translate payment formatting issues into layman business language.
- Good power point skills & ability to show complex payment trends in dashboard type materials.
Experience
- Requires a basic understanding of current and impending global payments standards and regulation.
- Good understanding of how NT makes and receives its payments today – globally.
- Proven experience of interfacing with multiple teams and communicating in a clear and succinct fashion, ideally within payments or cash operations.
- Ability to resolve complex problems using negotiation, influencing and escalation methods.
- Excellent organizational skills.
- Experience working on highly sensitive processes in a robust control environment with low tolerance for errors.
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!
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.
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