IAM Strategic Business Management

Northern Trust • Tempe, AZ

9d • Hybrid

About The Position

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 world’s 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 22,000 partners, we serve the world’s most sophisticated clients using leading technology and exceptional service.

Requirements

• Seasoned expert with strong technical and / or business knowledge and functional expertise.
• Strong communication skills, together with influencing and relationship-building are important attributes for the role.
• The ability to maintain confidentiality is essential.
• Able to collaborate across lines of businesses and work with central/corporate organizations, building a strong network.
• Working with big sets of data and analyzing this to find conclusions.
• Translating initiatives into a presentation.
• Must be able to present findings and translate data into corporate presentations.
• Drive trends and provide new conclusions or perspectives on new findings.
• Working collaboratively with business partners: HR, Compliance and Finance in order to support day to day business activities.
• Expert Microsoft PowerPoint ,Excel skills and Power BI skills.
• Familiarity with business intelligence tools.
• Solid experience within Financial Services.
• Prior experience of producing MI for senior stakeholders alongside resource and budget management.
• A university/college degree or equivalent and/or relevant proven work experience is required.
• Ability to operate autonomously with an ability to face off to the management team, demonstrates a willingness to take initiative and work independently, a problem solver.
• Ability to understand the strategic business vision; focus on improving the bottom line.
• Sound judgment, professional maturity and personal integrity, strong work ethic, proactive and results-oriented outlook, possess courage to ask tough questions and challenge the status quo.
• Strong attention to detail.

Nice To Haves

• Some cost management experience including preparation of budgets and monitoring expenses for large functions is beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Define BU wise metrics and relevant data sources.
• Develop strategies for effective data analysis and reporting.
• Oversee all analytics to correct discrepancies and ensure quality.
• Build systems to transform raw data into actionable business insights.
• Keep abreast of industry trends.
• Obtain, analyze and summarize market intelligence for the region.
• Responsible for design, delivery & management of monthly management reporting requirements.
• Act as a trusted advisor to the Business Head.
• Partner with the management team to develop priorities to enable delivery of the overall strategy for the business.
• Drive change through prioritization and alignment of resources.
• Own and ensure delivery of strategic business initiatives.
• Align teams to business priorities.
• Ensure business strategy considers market structure and regulatory changes.
• Optimize business performance by driving key initiatives.
• Lead annual business budget process.
• Ensure optimal resource budgeting and allocations to achieve business priorities.
• Oversee and manage investment / productivity initiatives across the end-to-end business to achieve multi-year targets.
• Develop ad-hoc analytics to help the business better understand and manage its costs, risks, capital usage, pricing, growth opportunities, etc.
• Understand the impact of new regulations on the business and how that may impact the business strategy.
• Respond to requests from Regulators as required.
• Ad Hoc / General Business Management Support.

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: Senior
• Education Level: Associate degree