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.
Summary:
The role involves working for Northern Trust Omnium Change Management, supporting the software development lifecycle for the Omnium Platform. This is a multi-tenant platform supporting mainly Hedge Fund Services (HFS), a global fund administrator, specializing in complex hedge funds and alternative asset investments. The successful candidate will be an ambitious self-starter who has demonstrated the ability to function as an effective and strategic leader in a dynamic, fast-paced, and demanding environment. This individual will have a strong technical background, experience working within the Financial Services industry and a proven track record of solving business problems, managing projects and internal/external relationships. The role will be a key part of our Omnium Change Management team and will be visible to many teams and partners.
Major Duties:
- Responsible for project managing highest priority strategic initiatives that cross multiple workstreams in alignment with executing on business strategy.
- Responsible for defining the project approach and execution plan which will include scope, risks, resources, prioritization, implementation and overall communication and governance. These activities to be done while managing and collaborating with multiple stakeholders, clients, IT developers, vendors, Agile Managers and Product Management.
- Responsible for facilitating sessions to define the problem statement or business case of the initiative to identify expected project benefits. Clearly define appropriate scope of work (in-scope and out-of-scope), business value, impacted clients and create a process for change requests.
- Responsible to work with the team to define incremental milestones that will deliver value and metrics to measure success against (i.e., hitting project milestones).
- Define project framework and governance structure that will be used throughout the project including, materials, meeting cadences, key decision makers, roles and responsibilities of the team members and escalation paths.
- Use sound judgement to escalate issues appropriately and timely, including solution options and associated impacts to drive effective decision making.
- Demonstrate critical thinking to anticipate and connect opportunities to drive the project forward and resolve challenges / escalations.
- Collaborate with Agile Managers and Product Management to stay informed on software development to ensure the delivery plan is executed against agreed milestones. Collaboration may include requirements and design, prioritization, testing and release management.
- Collaborate with Agile Managers and Product Management to create a roadmap visualization for development delivery. Maintain ownership of the initiative/feature level roadmap tracking against plan.
- Create and present project status materials including dashboards, global forum, roadmap visualizations and fit-for-purpose highlights/impacts ensuring the right level of information is articulated clearly for the audience.
- Manage project closure responsibilities...
Equal Opportunity Employer - minorities/females/veterans/individuals with disabilities/sexual orientation/gender identity
