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.

Role/ Department:
The Senior Project Manager (PM) will act as an Agile Product Owner, owning the co-ordination of options and solutions and managing a team of change SMEs to drive the delivery of initiatives in the Market Driven Change space.  Working closely with Partners in Product, Business and Technology Architecture and Operations they will define and estimate deliveries, agree the vision and then drive through to delivery.  Initiatives will be a combination of Traditional and Agile methodologies, the PM will need the flexibility and experience to shift between or blend models as required depending on the teams involved.

The key responsibilities of the role include:

Leads the creation of the project plan and responsible for the execution of the plan.

Ensures delivery of high quality solutions against strategic plans, managing cost, quality and time

Plans, schedules and oversees execution of the project

Proactively monitors progress, resolving issues and managing interdependencies between other work streams of the project including other transformational programmes that may be impacted, initiating corrective action as appropriate

In conjunction with IT and the relevant areas ensure appropriate scheduling of project deliverables to meet the plan

Negotiates priorities as necessary and escalate issues appropriately by understanding the most effective path towards resolution

Collaborate and communicate with third parties, executive sponsors and senior management stakeholders and partner groups in particular the supported business function to ensure that all initiatives are efficiently managed and delivered

Build credible, trusted advisor relationships with the key stakeholders at all levels of the organisation and also third parties

Delivers regular written and verbal progress reports which present a concise, accurate status of the project, ensuring a consistent status is communicated up to the overall programme

Skills/ Qualifications:
The successful candidate will benefit from having:  

Proven experience of managing complex project implementations with multiple systems involved, including vendor managed systems

Detail oriented, strong problem solving, advanced judgment capability and an in depth understanding and experience of business and technology life cycle

Excellent negotiation and conflict management skills with sufficient gravitas and credibility to work with the other PM’s on the project to manage resources and dependencies across multiple regions and time zones

Ability to partner with vendors, 3rd parties, customers, colleagues and develop positive working relationships to create an open positive working environment

Financial industry knowledge

Some knowledge of the role of a Global Custodian including an understanding of: Trade Process, Income, Corporate Actions, Cash, Payments, Stock Lending, Tax, Reconciliations

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.