FX Product Business 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 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/Department:

The FX Product team supports Northern Trusts FX into the Global Head of FX Product the individual will primarily support business leads product leads and technology partners to perform business analysis help define and establish requirements for new and existing workflows and capabilities support product leads to execute on product strategy and help in developing new client products and capabilities leading to the overall growth of business revenues and profitability.

The key responsibilities of the role include:

The successful candidate will benefit from having:

• Perform business analysis and map out existing workflows identifying challenges and areas of improvement
• Support product managers in defining requirements for new workflows and capabilities
• Work with IT on estimations and prioritization
• Participate in supplier calls with venues exchanges and liquidity providers to understand change to Northern Trusts FX products and services
• Work with operational teams to understand downstream impact of change
• Maintain a thorough knowledge and awareness of FX legal requirements regulatory environment and marketing trends in the industry to determine the directional impact of change
• Collaborate with PMO; technology; risk & compliance; operations and senior management to ensure execution aligned with the product roadmap
• Participate in FX business initiatives related to FX Payments eFX Trading Voice Sales Transactional FX or FX wide initiatives related to market structure or regulatory changes

Skills/Qualifications

• Deep FX experience in a front office business analysis role within a custody bank
• Knowledge of how FX is processed within a custody bank covering securities settlement middle office operations and front office execution required
• Experience in FX transformation in terms of people process and technology at a custody bank is required
• Additional knowledge in FX Payments eFX and FX Overlay is preferred
• In-depth functional / industry knowledge of the FX market required
• Ability to work closely with technology utilizing agile techniques and understanding technology terminology required
• Prior experience of using JIRA or similar tool required
• Excellent in building key relationships influencing and negotiating with partners and leaders across multiple disciplines
• Program or project management experience is advantageous; planning analysis design and governance
• Excellent oral and written communication skills are required
• Highly flexible and adaptable to change
• Analytics skills e.g. excel python are preferred

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.