Business Architecture 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.

Position Overview

Northern Trust is seeking a highly skilled Specialist Business Analyst with a Business Architecture emphasis to support Modernization initiatives within the Client Onboarding & Lifecycle Management (COLM) capability. This role is critical to shaping and aligning business processes capabilities and technology solutions to deliver a seamless client onboarding experience and support strategic transformation initiatives.

In this role you will work closely with Product Management Compliance/KYC Technology Operations Risk and Architecture partners to define business capabilities assess current-state processes identify gaps and translate regulatory and strategic objectives into clear business models process designs and functional requirements.

Key Responsibilities

Business Architecture & Discovery

• Partner with Product Owners Product Managers Compliance/KYC Technology Operations Risk and Architecture teams to define and document business architecture components supporting KYC modernization including business capabilities value streams and operating model impacts.
• Translate strategic and regulatory objectives into capability models conceptual process flows and functional decompositions that guide solution direction and prioritization.
• Assess current-state KYC processes and data flows to identify gaps redundancies risks and opportunities for simplification and standardization.
• Ensure alignment between business processes data concepts and technology architecture supporting scalability auditability and regulatory compliance.

Business Analysis & Delivery Enablement

• Work closely with subject matter experts across business and technology to capture analyze and document business and functional requirements with an emphasis on KYC and onboarding workflows.
• Create and maintain key documentation including business process flows data dictionaries operating model artifacts and traceability documentation.
• Act as a liaison between business and technology teams to validate requirements support solution design decisions and ensure operational readiness.

Collaboration Governance & Readiness

• Facilitate stakeholder discussions to drive shared understanding of KYC business needs constraints and trade-offs across functions.
• Participate in and contribute to Agile ceremonies such as backlog grooming feature and story refinement sprint planning and retrospectives as applicable to initiative phase.
• Support operational readiness and compliance alignment ensuring solutions are designed with appropriate controls handoffs and governance considerations in mind.

Experience Knowledge and Skills

Experience

• For internal applications - 24 months as Senior Consultant(P3)
• 5 years of experience in business analysis with demonstrated exposure to business architecture process design or operating model work preferably within financial services or a complex regulated environment.
• Experience supporting client onboarding KYC AML or regulatory-driven transformation initiatives strongly preferred.

Skills & Knowledge

• Strong understanding of business capability modeling process mapping and data flow analysis.
• Working knowledge of KYC/AML regulations operational controls and risk management concepts.
• Ability to balance strategic discovery with practical execution adapting depth of analysis to initiative maturity.
• Proficiency with process and modeling tools (e.g. Visio BPMN or similar); familiarity with Agile delivery practices is a plus.
• Excellent communication facilitation and stakeholder engagement skills with the ability to operate effectively across business and technology teams.

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

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Apply today and talk to us about your flexible working requirements and together we can achieve greater.

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