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Program Manager Settlements Transformation - R124886

at Northern Trust Company in Chicago, Illinois, United States

Job Description

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.

Program / Project Manager

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 organisation 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 programme.



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.

Equal Opportunity Employer - minorities/females/veterans/individuals with disabilities/sexual orientation/gender identity

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Job Posting: 11934074

Posted On: May 28, 2024

Updated On: Jun 27, 2024

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