Specialist, Client Change Lead

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.

Job Summary

Responsible for providing comprehensive and extensive technical support to stakeholders to identify and understand needs concerns and environment or business in which they work. Serves as the lead consultant for designing business solutions on the largest and most complex projects or programs. Oversees the design of business requirements and helps drive strategy and directions in achieving the business results. Responsible for incorporating industry standards and best practices to define strategies that improve existing business processes.

Work Model: Hybrid

Major Duties:

• Provides comprehensive and extensive technical support in planning and monitoring the activities that are necessary to complete a business analysis effort and identifying the stakeholders selection of business analysis techniques process that will be used to manage requirements and how to assess the progress of work.
• Oversees the work with stakeholders to identify and understand needs concerns and environment or business in which they work.
• Consults with stakeholders by underlying that their needs are understood by interviewing and documenting for verification.
• Manages all complex conflicts issues and changes to requirement in order to ensure stakeholders and the project team are all in agreement on the solution scope.
• Reviews and determines how requirements are communicated and how the knowledge obtained is maintained for current and future use.
• Responsible for managing the business need refines and clarifies the definition of that need and designs and produces a solution scope that can feasibly be implemented by the business.
• Oversees the development of the business case.
  Prioritizes the solution requirements that meet the needs of the sponsoring organization which includes analyzing stakeholders needs to deliver solutions that meet those needs assessing the current state of the business to identify and provide improvements and to verify and validate the resulting requirements on newly developed or on existing business and systems process to business unit or function.
• Designs and proposes solutions which can best fit the business need identifies gaps and shortcoming in solutions and determines necessary work-around or changes to the solution.
• Oversees that the solution was deployed validates the needs of the business were met and the solution scope was achieved.
• Seasoned multi-disciplinary expert with extensive technical and/or business knowledge and functional expertise.
• Focus of role is on execution of strategic direction of business function activities.
• Highly flexible and adaptable to change.

Knowledge:

• Multi-disciplinary expert with authoritative knowledge of business analysis and all of the business analyst function competencies.
• Authoritative knowledge in business specific and industry knowledge and fundamentals.
• Experience in extensive and wide range of situations.
• Knowledge in developing standards or best practices.
• Skills in translating broad strategic intent into tactical plans and directions.
• Excellent leadership analytical conflict management and negotiation skills are required.
• Must have excellent communication skills both written and oral.
• Organizational skills are required to develop and monitor projects/business process plans.
  

Requires a college or university degree and/or relevant proven work experience organization and leadership skills that provides knowledge to the functional business. Demonstrates excellent experience in change initiatives covering such areas as operations IT and product development; with a track record of accomplishment in large complex projects and change initiatives.

Salary Range:

Salary range is a good faith estimate of base pay. Northern Trust provides a comprehensive benefits package including retirement benefits (401k and pension) health and welfare benefits (medical dental vision spending accounts and disability) paid time off parental and caregiver leave life & accident insurance and other voluntary and well-being benefits. Northern Trust also provides a discretionary bonus program that may include an equity component.

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 andapply 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.