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.
Major Duties:
- Collaborate closely with Portfolio Solutions Strategists to ensure the successful implementation of client activity within agreed timelines.
- Work in partnership with partners in Brokerage Operations to continuously enhance operational efficiency and risk control.
- Manage and oversee relationships with external counterparties in the FX and Futures domains.
- Act as a trusted advisor to the Business Head, contributing to the development of business priorities and overall strategy.
- Drive change by prioritizing initiatives and aligning resources accordingly to meet strategic goals.
- Take ownership and ensure the successful delivery of strategic business initiatives.
- Optimize business performance by leading key service delivery initiatives.
- Work with the Business Head on the annual business budget process.
- Chair the Quarterly Portfolio Solutions Business Council and represent Portfolio Solutions in the broader Risk Councils.
- Collaborate with Risk & Compliance to ensure compliance with changing global regulatory requirements.
- Respond to requests from regulators as needed.
- Coordinate periodic testing and reviews with internal parties such as Audit, Risk, and Compliance.
- Provide day-to-day team management for Implementation Managers, setting goals, conducting performance reviews, and assigning tasks.
- Act as a point of direction and escalation for the team, observing, monitoring, and controlling productivity.
- Offer ad hoc/general business management support as required.
Knowledge:
- Seasoned multi-disciplinary expert with extensive technical and / or business knowledge and functional expertise
- Excellent communication skills, together with influencing and relationship-building are important attributes for the role
- Able to collaborate across lines of businesses and work with central/corporate organizations, building a strong network
- Working with big sets of data and analysing this to find conclusions.
- Drive trends and provide new conclusions or perspectives on new findings.
- Working collaboratively with business partners: HR, Compliance and Finance in order to support day to day business activities.
Experience:
- Licenses as required by the governing bodies with the specific region.
- Significant experience within Financial Services.
- Prior experience of producing management information reporting for senior stakeholders alongside resource and budget management.
- A university/college degree or equivalent and/or relevant proven work experience is required
- 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
- Demonstrated ability to influence business leaders and partner well as part of a global business
- Strong focus on understanding and contributing to the strategic business vision, with a focus on improving the bottom line.
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