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SalaryNorthern 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/Department
Northern Trust provides global coverage for our clients, and trades in 70+ countries through our comprehensive FX capabilities. We are looking to hire a Specialist in the Global Foreign Exchange (GFX) Business Management group, to join a new and growing team.
The GFX Business Management group is responsible for the core operations, overseeing the supporting business services provided by Capital Markets Back-Office Operations & Client Integration, Credit Risk, Legal, Compliance, and the Chief Administrative Office. In this role, you will be part of the Chief Strategy Office for GFX, reporting into the Head of Business Management, supporting the Foreign Exchange trading desk.
We are seeking an ambitious candidate with a passion for delivery, excellent written and oral communication skills, diligently organize, and ready to 'roll up their sleeves'.
The key responsibilities of the role include:
Supporting the GFX business globally in regulatory support, audit remediation, and everyday business management functions.
- Obtain, analyze and summarize market intelligence for the region
- Responsible for the delivery & management of monthly management reporting requirements
- Business Strategy and Growth
- Partner with the management team to develop priorities to enable delivery of the overall strategy for the business
- Drive change through prioritization and alignment of resources
- Own and ensure delivery of initiatives
- Work to align teams to business priorities
- Business Performance and Planning
- Optimize business performance by driving key initiatives
- Input into the annual business budget process including resource budgeting and allocations to achieve business priorities
- Participate in and track investment / productivity initiatives across the business to achieve multi-year targets
- Develop ad-hoc analytics to help the business better understand and manage its costs, risks, capital usage, pricing, growth opportunities, etc.
- Regulation, Risk and Controls
- Work to understand the impact of new regulations on the business and how that may impact the business strategy
- Respond to requests from Regulators as required.
- Ad Hoc / General Business Management Support.
The candidate will benefit from having;
- Solid experience within Financial Services.
- Prior experience of producing MI for senior stakeholders alongside resource and budget management.
- A university/college degree or equivalent and/or relevant proven work experience is required
- Ability to operate autonomously with an ability to face off to the management team, demonstrates a willingness to take initiative and work independently, a problem solver
- Ability to understand the strategic business vision; focus on improving the bottom line
- Experience in supporting a capital markets business, either in a BAU, consulting, or change the bank capacity. Preference for experience with Foreign Exchange markets.
- Sound judgment, professional maturity and personal integrity, strong work ethic, proactive and results-oriented outlook, possess courage to ask tough questions and challenge the status quo
- Strong attention to detail
- Seasoned expert with strong technical and / or business knowledge and functional expertise
- Strong communication skills, together with influencing and relationship-building are important attributes for the role. The ability to maintain confidentiality is essential
- Some cost management experience including preparation of budgets and monitoring expenses for large functions is beneficial
- Able to collaborate across lines of businesses and work with central/corporate organizations, building a strong network
- Working with big sets of data and analyzing this to find conclusions.
- Translating initiatives into a presentation. Must be able to present findings and translate data into corporate presentations.
- Drive trends and provide new conclusions or perspectives on new findings.
- Working collaboratively with business partners: HR, Compliance and Finance in order to support day to day business activities
- Strong documentation skills, having the ability to document process flows and/or business requirements when needed
- Expert Microsoft PowerPoint and Excel skills
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 .
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.
