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Salary 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.
The Role
This is a Senior Project manager role within the Global Funds Services arm of the Northern Trust Company. This role, based in London, is focused on on boarding a strategic client with a focus primarily on IOO, Fund Accounting, Performance and Custody.
The candidate should be able to provide comprehensive and extensive project management support to stakeholders in defining and executing the programme. The candidate should be able to identify and understand the stakeholders’ and client’s needs, and assess the risk, assumptions and constraints. The candidate should also be able to articulate strategic direction to large, complex project or programme activities.
The candidate should be confident, well presented and an agent of change. Prior experience implementing new processes and on boarding in the GFS arena would be an advantage.
Key Responsibilities
- Oversees all work streams with a high degree of risk and impact.
- Provides comprehensive and extensive project management support to stakeholders to manage the establishment of the required operational model. .
- Responsible for designing and overseeing the implementation plan for the Client on boarding onto a strategic platform and operating model. Working very closely with the client to transition the business onto a robust and stable platform that meets the clients requirements.
- Developing the project management plan, identifying and scheduling project activities, managing meetings
- Executes the work in the plan to accomplish the project objectives that are defined in the project scope statement.
- Responsible for monitoring and controlling by performing the work to compare actual performance with planned performance. Responsible for analysing variances, assessing any trends that can effect process improvements, evaluating possible alternatives, and to implement appropriate corrective action(s) as needed.
- Responsible for communication, leadership, and management to effectively exchange accurate and relevant information with stakeholders; and responsible for providing guidance and motivation to team members and project stakeholders and ensuring resources are achieving project objectives.
- Seasoned multi-disciplinary expert with extensive project management and business knowledge functional expertise.
- Focus of role is on execution of strategic client on boarding.
- Highly flexible and adaptable to change.
Key Skills
- Experience of Clients Transitions.
- Multi-disciplinary expert with authoritative Project Management knowledge
- Authoritative knowledge in business specific industry and regulatory knowledge and fundamentals
- Knowledge in developing standards or best practices
- Skills in translating broad strategic intent into tactical plans and directions
- Excellent organizational and analytical skills are required. Requires excellent leadership skills and communication skills (both written and oral)
- Requires a college or university degree and/or relevant work experience, excellent organizational and leadership skills in project management that provides knowledge to the functional business
- Demonstrates excellent experience in change initiatives, covering such areas as operations, IT and product development; with a track record of accomplishment in large, complex projects and change initiatives
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.
