Sr Analyst, Loan Ops

Northern Trust • Tempe, AZ

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About The Position

The Sr Analyst, Loan Ops monitors banking and liquidity work, requests, and issues, helping ensure timely and accurate execution. The role performs complex banking and liquidity activities with significant business, client, and internal impact, and communicates cash, funding, liquidity, and transaction updates to relevant stakeholders.

The position conducts reviews, reconciliations, and control activities to ensure cash movements, liquidity activity, and related records are complete, accurate, and properly documented. It identifies and helps implement improvements to procedures, controls, and team practices, while applying strong knowledge of banking, liquidity, operational processes, counterparty exposure, and control requirements.

The Sr Analyst may coordinate daily operational work, guide and mentor junior employees, and interact with senior stakeholders, committees, or functional leadership. A college or university degree and/or relevant work experience is required. Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S. without current or future employment-based visa sponsorship.

Requirements

• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Strong functional knowledge of banking, liquidity management, cash movement, and related operational processes.
• Analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work effectively as part of a team with minimal supervision.
• Accuracy and attention to detail.
• Ability to perform reviews, reconciliations, and control activities thoroughly and accurately, including support for liquidity and counterparty risk controls.
• A college or university degree and/or some relevant work experience.
• Authorization to work in the U.S. without the need for employment-based visa sponsorship now or in the future.

Responsibilities

• Monitor incoming banking and liquidity work, requests, and issues, and take appropriate action to ensure timely and accurate execution.
• Communicate cash, funding, liquidity, and transaction updates clearly and accurately to relevant stakeholders.
• Provide day-to-day support and guidance to less experienced team members and assist with coordinating workflow across banking and liquidity activities.
• Perform reviews, reconciliations, and control activities to ensure cash movements, liquidity activity, and related records are complete, accurate, and properly documented.
• Identify, document, and help implement updates to procedures, controls, and team practices to improve consistency, efficiency, and risk management.
• Carry out complex banking and liquidity activities with significant business, client, and internal impact.
• Interact as needed with senior stakeholders, committees, or functional leadership on cash, liquidity, and service execution matters.
• Serve as a subject matter resource and mentor to more junior employees.
• Coordinate daily operational activities and oversee day-to-day work of junior employees, without formal management responsibility, as needed.
• Apply technical and functional knowledge of banking, liquidity, and related operational processes while maintaining awareness of counterparty exposure and control requirements.
• Deliver accurate, thorough work that requires minimal revision.
• Facilitate discussions, help evaluate options, and support timely decision-making on cash, liquidity, and transactional matters.

Benefits

• Flexible and collaborative work culture.
• Movement within the organization is encouraged.
• Senior leaders are accessible.
• Inclusive workplace.
• Opportunities to contribute to the communities served.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior