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.
ROLE SUMMARY
Northern Trust Asset Management (NTAM) is a trillion dollar investment management firm entrusted by investors around the globe to help them navigate changing market environments, so they can confidently realize their long-term objectives.
The Digital Product Manager - Performance, reporting into the digital product organization, is primarily responsible for championing the digital strategy and overseeing development milestones of investment performance technology and related activities for NTAM. This role will partner with practices including Performance Measurement, Attribution, Accounting, Product, Marketing, COO, Investments, Data Office and Technology. Together they will develop and execute a strategic roadmap to build a world-class performance reporting and analytics data and digital capabilities, meeting NTAM's current and future needs in prospecting, client servicing and internal management.
PRIMARY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Digital Product Owner Performance is primarily focused on the digital and strategic road map and execution of the technology and data aspects supporting investment performance measurement, reporting and analytics. Responsibilities include:
- Lead performance-related digital, system and vendor related initiatives to drive reporting and compositing capabilities across all of NTAM clients, accounts and funds.
- Drive, participate and oversee existing and emerging proprietary or vended applications and data used for performance reporting and compositing, providing thought leadership on effective use of spend.
- Develop the strategic roadmap for the performance measurement, reporting and analytics function, including digital and automation-driven transformation opportunities to achieve scalability
- Collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams to assess current state and architect future-state operating models, processes, capabilities required to successfully support evolving business needs and adopt digitization and automation solutions to drive excellence. Communicate roadmap in terms meaningful to both business and technology organizations.
- Partner with Business Unit Manager to develop service levels with technology and data teams, establish a robust governance and control framework to ensure delivery of timely and accurate information, and monitor on-going effectiveness
- Develop an intake framework for managing the pipeline of work to deliver the capabilities and growth of the production pipeline. Prepare monthly reporting Product updates to COO & Tech leadership.
- Strengthen the first line of defense (1LOD) by instilling a culture of continuous improvement and robust policy and data domain documentation to reduce operational risk and drive operational excellence.
- Lead development of new capabilities and improved cross-functional connectivity to effectively position performance and analytics for broader commercial use.
NECESSARY KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS
- Digital product management expertise, strong technical and application...
Equal Opportunity Employer - minorities/females/veterans/individuals with disabilities/sexual orientation/gender identity
