Business Strategy Data Analyst

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.
Working Model: Hybrid
We have a balanced hybrid working model to ensure you get the flexibility you need, and the successful candidate will spend their time between working in the office and working from home.
Global Fund Services:Global Fund Services (GFS) is a full-service provider of fund solutions to investment manager and fund company clients around the world. North America GFS Operations provides Fund Accounting and Administration, Custody Servicing, Investment Outsourcing Operations, Transfer Agency, and Investor Servicing. Our expert team of 900 partners across North America are solutions-oriented, innovative, and passionate about servicing clients and helping them execute their business strategies. We commit ourselves to ensuring our partners reach their full potential.
Major Duties
Responsible for supporting senior management in various business and/or corporate strategy projects, employee and industry development activities.
Digital Transformation

• Focuses on automation using digitization to implement change management, with the aim to align people, process, and technology initiatives of Northern Trust to business unit strategy and vision.
• Requires technical or other specific training or equivalent experience to support and innovate operating model changes on behalf of clients and partners.
• Requires full proficiency gained through job-related training and considerable on-the-job experience to perform a range of tasks. Takes a broad perspective to problems and spots new, less obvious solutions.
• Completes work with limited degree of supervision. Likely to act as an informal resource for colleague with less experience

Data Analysis

• Identifies key issues and patterns from partial/conflicting data
• Analyzes industry trends, business performance, hiring data
• Carries out cross-functional activities that are moderate in scope and technical complexity
• Conducts preliminary analysis
• Responsible for direct interaction with different committees and/or management
• Strategic in developing, implementing and administering programs within functional areas

Administrative Support

• Assists senior management in creating strategic people plans, including communication plans
• Assists with planning employee engagement events
• Assists with creating presentations, reports, procedures
• Responsible for direct interaction with different committees and/or management
• Strategic in developing, implementing and administering programs within functional areas
• Manage communication tool (SharePoint site) and disseminate communication to the business
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• A College or University degree and/or relevant proven work experience in financial analysis and project management is required
• Excellent oral and written communication skills are required
• Moderate data analysis and pivot table knowledge within excel skills are required
• Analytical and problem solving skills are required
• Technical skills / strong Excel and Power Point knowledge and other Microsoft Office suite) are required
• Strong process and project management skills are required

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! Join a workplace with a greater purpose.
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 [email protected].
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.