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: Digital Transformation Execution Effectiveness Specialist / Digital Modernization Office (DMO)

The Digital Modernization Office (DMO) is the control tower and heart of our digital modernization. The DMO focuses on the high priority, transformative initiatives, drives cross-enterprise coordination and alignment, provides enterprise transparency and directly engages to address critical issues with senior leadership cross-BU; Providing a strategic, independent, unbiased perspective while cultivating a transformation mindset.

The Digital Transformation Execution Effectiveness Specialist role will support DMO “Special Projects”. Working in conjunction with technology and business executives across NT in a strategic fast paced environment. The role will problem solve, define and drive a range of strategic enterprise initiatives including: product operating model design and execution, target funding model design, execution effectiveness productivity, large program health checks analysis and remediation and other enterprise initiatives.

The key responsibilities of the role include:

• Evaluate operating model changes and automation opportunities across the SDLC including development (e.g., copilots), testing automation, CI/CD, etc. that will drive productivity outcomes

• Develop and continually refine execution productivity strategy and adaption plan to include financials, operating model, tools, new processes, etc.

• Define and drive any required analysis, working sessions, ad-hock meetings, to continually drive progress against goals

• Organize drive and support ideation and problem-solving sessions as required with DMO, technology and business leadership

• Prepare high quality materials and talking points for management group updates, internal communications, high-level readout reports, etc..

• Support on going socialization with technology and business executive teams including the development of executive level presentations as required

• Work closely with DMO technology and business leadership to drive execution productivity plan adaption, including change management plans and tracking against progress

Skills/Qualifications:

• Experience as a management consultant or internal consultant within financial services is desirable

• Business knowledge in Asset Servicing, Wealth Management or Asset Management

• Experience with technology productivity levers at scale in financial services organizations

• Proficient in financial modeling and business case development with return on investment analysis

• Experience with operating model and organizational design to improve productivity

• Understanding and exposure to product based operating model strategies

• Understanding of SDLC process and tools (agile, automated testing, CI/CD , GitHub co-pilot, etc. )

• Understanding of Cloud strategies, tools and technologies

• Practical experience with change management processes

• Highly flexible with a change agent mentality

• Ability to work with imperfect information

• Excellent verbal and written communications skill

Salary Range:

Salary range is a good faith estimate of base pay. Northern Trust provides a comprehensive benefits package including retirement benefits (401k and pension), health and welfare benefits (medical, dental, vision, spending accounts and disability), paid time off, parental and caregiver leave, life & accident insurance, and other voluntary and well-being benefits. Northern Trust also provides a discretionary bonus program that may include an equity component.

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 [email protected].

 
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.