SrConsultant

About Northern Trust:

Northern Trust a Fortune 500 company is a globally recognized awardwinning financial institution that has been in continuous operation since 1889.

Northern Trust is proud to provide innovative financial services and guidance to the worlds 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 22000 partners we serve the worlds most sophisticated clients using leading technology and exceptional service.

Role:

The Risk Senior Consultant will support the daily monthly and quarterly exante risk reporting process for asset owner clients. The role is highly consultative in nature and the successful applicant must be able to demonstrate strong communication skills and a high level of technical knowledge of exante risk analysis. The role requires competent client servicing skills as well as frequent presentation of the client risk reports associated analytical framework an element of cross sell of Northern Trust analytical tools where appropriate and ability to work with senior stakeholders and product team in achieving the organizational goals.

Major Duties:

• Consults with clients and acts as the technical expert on risk management and analysis concepts and communicates how these concepts apply to institutional investment programs and support the oversight performance evaluation and asset allocation processes.
• Provides institutional clients with complex risk analyses to facilitate the investment management and oversight processes.
• Oversees the implementation of new risk analysis products for clients.
• Communicates with multiple constituents to ensure client satisfaction including clients clients investment managers and team members on a regular basis.
• Develops and makes client presentations explaining the banks risk analysis services new product determines client reporting needs and discusses alternatives for meeting these needs.
• Manages the end to end process of data management quality reviews and reporting of exante risk reports to the client.
• Develops and produces investment risk reports and builds tailored solutions for complex clients
• Uses lowcode tools (such as Alteryx Synapse) to build proof of concepts solutions and exhibits strong excel skills.
• Provides feedback to IRAS Product and Senior management around current offerings client needs and enhancements required.
• Works closely with Product and DevOps teams to enhance existing tools testing enhancements and developing new solutions.
• Researches and implements better ways to model nonpublicly traded asset classes into the risk system.
• Attends industry events to find solutions best practices and stays up to date with latest regulatory requirements
• Trains and mentors junior members of the team conducts technical trainings educates others on product capabilities.

Knowledge/Skills:

• Strong Analytical skills & highly numerate.
• Previous Investment risk experience preferably leveraging market leading risk analytics provider (MSCI BarraOne Riskmetrics etc)
• Significant knowledge of investments (public and private markets derivatives) asset allocation analysis attribution and industry related subject matter such as mandates laws regulations and economic conditions that impact investments.
• Strong oral and written communications skills.
• Ability to set priorities and manage deadlines.
• Flexible approach / Good team player.
• Strong time management skills consulting problem definition and solution delivery experience.
• Proven client relationship experience.
• Good knowledge of financial markets investment instruments and portfolio management.
• Broad knowledge of performance methodology including Equity and Fixed Income attribution.
• Works well under pressure selfmotivated and proactive problem solver
• Ability to develop solutions and proof of concepts on lowcode environments like Alteryx/Synapse.
• Ability to understand and investigate data structures and tables using tools like SQL.

Experience/Qualification:

• 11 years of portfolio analytics experience preferable with exposure to market risk analysis
• Consultants with 1 yr. of experience (for internal applicants)
• Client serving experience preferred

CFA and/or FRM certification Masters in Finance Statistics or Mathematics education in Actuarial sciences.

Eligibility for Internal partners

• 3 years as a Team Leader to move as a Section Manager currently at an Officer level.
• 24 months as a Consultant to move as a Senior Consultant. Movement within Senior Consultant and Section Manager is applicable if they have prior 36 months of people management experience.

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.

Wed love to learn more about how your interests and experience could be a fit with one of the worlds 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 .

We hope youre 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.