Associate Specialist - Finance Data Analytics

Northern Trust • Chicago, IL

4d • $95,600 - $162,400 • Hybrid

About The Position

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.

Requirements

• 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
• 7+ years of relevant experience.
• A College or University degree in a relevant field.

Nice To Haves

• Familiarity with other analytics tools (e.g., Microsoft Business Intelligence Suite, QlikView, Informatica or other tools) preferred
• Familiarity with relational and dimensional database concepts, querying, data warehouses, requirements gathering and/or decision support tools preferred
• Prior experience using statistical software or knowledge of various data mining and analytical tools (SSRS, SAS, etc.) preferred

Responsibilities

• 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

Benefits

• 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
• other voluntary and well-being benefits
• discretionary bonus program that may include an equity component

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Associate degree