Associate Specialist - Finance Data Analytics

About Northern Trust As a global leader in innovative wealth management, asset servicing, asset management and banking services, Northern Trust (Nasdaq: NTRS) is proud to guide the world’s most successful individuals, families, corporations and institutions. Since 1889, we have aligned our efforts with our three guiding Principles That Endure: Service, Expertise, and Integrity. Together, they reflect the three cornerstones of business conduct which we strive to instill in our employees, whom we call partners, and to provide to our clients and the communities we serve worldwide. With more than 135 years of financial experience and over 24,000 partners, we serve the world’s most sophisticated clients using leading technology and exceptional service. Finance Data & Automation (FDA) is redefining how Finance works by transforming fragmented data, manual reporting, and legacy processes into digital products, advanced analytics, and AI-enabled insights. We are looking for a curious, driven innovator who wants to operate at the intersection of Finance, data, technology, and artificial intelligence, helping shape the future of decision-making at Northern Trust. This is an opportunity to solve complex business challenges, influence senior leaders, and build solutions that change the way Finance and the business operate Major Duties: • Works with business leaders and stakeholders to understand their strategies, how they align with corporate strategies and determine ways to use analytics to drive decision making • Defines and develops analytic capabilities that can be leveraged to solve cross-business function challenges in a business unit • Supports the analytical needs of various business functions in a business unit, enabling strategic prioritization to deliver the most value • Analyzes and understands Northern Trust’s core business processes and data flows to design and develop enduring solutions that provide analytical insights (both historical and predictive) • Ensures best practice techniques are used to report the data in a form that is accurate and insightful • Contributes to the development and delivery of solutions that: leverage and extend existing Business Intelligence and analytics infrastructure; consider metric governance and enterprise solutions alignment; are scalable, repeatable and effective; follow agreed upon governance and technology policies including use of Agile or SDLC processes • Assists with applying and developing statistical models/methods to address business issues • Develops metrics and create ad-hoc reporting as needed • Assists internal customers with operational change management activities required to realize business value from the analytics solution • Ensures issues are identified, tracked, reported on and resolved in a timely manner • Rapidly and effectively adapts to highly dynamic and fast-paced work environment • Participates in special projects as needed and perform other duties as assigned • Fosters a positive and collaborative environment • Focus of role is on execution of strategic direction of business function activities • Acts as a resource for colleagues with less experience • May lead small projects with manageable risks and resource requirements Knowledge : • Seasoned multi-disciplinary expert with extensive technical and/or business knowledge and functional expertise • Excellent oral and written communication skills are required • Highly flexible and adaptable to change • Leadership and organizational skills are required to determine the Business Unit's goals, resources needed, and to assess and develop the skills of staff • Database systems competence is expected • Familiarity with data analysis and/or reporting • Strong mathematical skills required • Experience with SQL and Excel • Strong project management skills • Strong team/relationship building skills • Familiarity with other analytics tools (e.g., Microsoft Business