Specialist - Strategic Finance & Productivity

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.

Northern Trust Corporation is a leading financial institution servicing wealth management and institutional clients around the globe. Northern Trust’s Strategic Finance & Productivity Office drives a key strategic initiative for the enterprise through establishing and evolving governance, providing ongoing oversight and measuring resource usage and spend in order to optimize productivity across the firm.

As a member of the team, the specialist will partner with Northern Trust’s business units in the prioritization and financial management of technology capital initiatives. The partner will act as a financial advisor to the business unit assessing the financial health, performance execution and benefit realization of a portfolio of projects.

In addition, the specialist will have the opportunity to collaborate in the modernization and redesign of expenditure governance, management and reporting.

Responsibilities

• Report monthly actual results and forecast to Portfolio Investment Council, providing an explanation of variances relative to forecast and plan, respectively
• Actively participate in Portfolio Investment Council providing insights into the financial performance of the portfolio
• Portfolio appropriation requests, ensuring information provided is accurate and complete and in alignment with approvals set forth by the Portfolio Investment Council
• Actively participate in the modernization of the function including providing feedback on automation and leading specific efforts, as needed
• Provide guidance to portfolio managers in their preparation of the monthly forecast and submission of appropriation requests

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in a financial planning and analysis role understanding drivers of variance of forecast relative to plan.
• Working knowledge of capital projects drivers and accounting treatment.
• Experience with change management and modernization.
• Experience developing forecast models and challenging forecast results prepared by others.
• Experience interpreting historical financial performance in relation to forecast.
• Ability to manage large data sets and synthetize results for executive management.
• Experience with Microsoft tools, including Excel and PowerBI.
• Experience with Clarity PPM as a planning and forecasting ideal but not required.

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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.