Strategic Spending & Productivity Business Analyst at Northern Trust in Chicago, Illinois

Job Description:

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 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.

Functional Title: IT Strategic Spending & Optimization, Business Analyst

Background:

IT Strategic Spending & Optimization (SSO) is a practice in Global Technology Services focused on identifying and delivering opportunities to deliver business value for all IT spending. This team is positioned to equip senior IT leaders with analysis and opportunities to improve productivity and predictability of outcomes.

Job Description:

Performs analysis for optimization initiatives to understand current state, identify improvement opportunities, relevant KPIs and prioritization criteria. Collaborates closely across stakeholder groups including technology leadership, finance, procurement and human resources. The successful candidate will be a self-starter with a proven track record delivering exceptional results by adding structure to ambiguous situations, performing data analysis and building executive-ready materials.

Responsibilities:

• Individual contributor, a self-starter with excellent communication skills (both oral and written), story-telling, visual design, Excel, Power BI and PowerPoint skills


• Add structure and enhance data available to better support analysis or prove hypotheses


• Solicits feedback and synthesizes insights to identify opportunities


• Support IT optimization initiatives driving innovation, quality, and efficiency


• Produces 'magazine-ready' deliverables and effectively manage expectations and deadlines to ensure exceptional performance


• Builds relationships and improves communication among stakeholders

Knowledge / Skills Required:

• Ability to structure work independently and anticipate next steps to make progress


• Collecting, normalizing and structuring data to support ad hoc analysis


• Problem-solving experience and ability to analyze problems using data-driven approaches (Power BI and Excel)


• Experience with PowerPoint and executive storytelling


• Ability to navigate and work across multiple stakeholders in a fast-paced, high performing environment


• Strong organization and facilitation skills


• Project management fundamentals


• Understanding of the software development lifecycle and broad technology concepts , preferred


• Thoughtful listener


• Deep sense of personal integrity


• Strong desire to drive projects to completion. Identifies issues and recommends solutions

Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in Business or Technology. Graduate degree a plus


• 3+ years of work experience


• Experience with financial services or technology organizations preferred but not required


• Prior experience working in a consulting and/or strategy role a plus

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.

We'd love to learn more about how your interests and experience could be a fit with one of the world's most admired and sustainable companies! Build your career with us and apply today. #MadeForGreater

Reasonable accommodation

Northern Trust is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please email our HR Service Center at MyHRHelp@ntrs.com .

We hope you're excited about the role and the opportunity to work with us. We value an inclusive workplace and understand flexibility means different things to different people.

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