Senior Consultant

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.

Cash Service -Change Capability team

Cash Capability team is a change team that supports Cash Servicing within Northern Trust corporation, that support optimize growth of Northern strategic Enterprise banking model (EBM) to support clients and operation, by delivering a modern harmonized, scalable global cash operating model that strengthens operational and technical resiliency and drives productivity through automated, transparent and efficient toolsets in order to deliver improvement to client services, strengthen the intraday risk and control framework.

SUMMARY-

Individual will perform Business Analysis duties in line with the delivery of the Products within the Cash Services Change Portfolio.

Individual will work closely with the relevant Product Owner to ensure the correct level of upfront analysis is completed to inform the design of both the Operating and App Development Models.  They will be responsible for supporting the Product Owner in writing features, taking the lead in writing Stories and maintaining good SDLC discipline.

Individual requires a forensic mind-set with a passion for “understanding how things work”. The ability to pull an overall complex picture together from stakeholder interviews, documentation and reviewing external market practice.  Create documentation where none existing and provide metrics and evidence to help validate decisions and strategic direction     

MAJOR DUTIES-

• Work collaboratively with the Scrum team, conducting analysis as required to document changes needed, writing User stories, taking the lead in writing Stories and maintaining good  SDLC discipline.
• Support Product Owner, Solutions Architects, Testers and Developers to ensure that eventual outcome meets the desired success criteria
• Elaborate high-level business requirements & design provided by operations teams, product owner, business architects to a level of detail that is sufficient for developers to build a complete solution
• Analyse data to determine the logic of new business rules
• Create detailed acceptance criteria for each user story in the Given, When, Then format that, if met, will demonstrate that the development meets the business need
• Refine the user story with the scrum team ensuring that there is understanding of both the business need and detailed requirements
• Answer questions from developers and testers throughout the lifecycle of the story
• Conduct a detailed review of test results v. the acceptance criteria
• Write functional specifications where necessary so that end users understand how to use the new or enhanced functionality
• Actively participate in Agile ceremonies such as stand-up, backlog refinement, planning and retrospectives

KNOWLEDGE/SKILLS:

• Market Knowledge of Cash Products, Global Payments and Industry Change
• In-depth knowledge of NT’s current Cash Architecture and associated business processes.  
• Previous experience working large scale, complex change initiatives
• Experience with working with Agile delivery methods, specifically Scaled Agile.
• Excellent problem solving and analytical skills
• Strong communication skills: written and verbal.
• Exposure and understanding of Project & Product Change methodologies
• Analytical skills to resolve and research enquiries and issues
• Strong planning, organizational and problem-solving skills
• Ability to actively collaborate and work with extended team outside of the Business unit
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Suite of tools, PBI
• High level of attention to detail with a focus on ensuring accuracy in financial records
• Must have good interpersonal skills with the ability to establish credibility and foster excellent working relationships with internal and external partners
• Work well with people in the same department, both locally and globally

EXPERIENCE:

• 24 months as Consultant
• 5-10 years hands-on Payments Business Analyst in Agile and Waterfall delivery methodology
• Track record of successful delivery of 2-3 full life-cycle changes in Banking and Financial industry in recent years
• SME level knowledge of FIN and ISO20022 messaging across  SWIFT CBPR+, CHAPS,RITS and Target 2 payment networks
• Worked on creation of functional led Target Operating Model
• Expert and up-to-date in usage of standard tools & processes viz. JIRA, AzureDevOps, and MS Office suite
• Processing and manipulation of data to achieve business objectives
• Basic SQL skills
• (Nice to have) Custody Product knowledge,

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.