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 Project Management function manages a BU (Business Unit) project or program to successful outcome.

Programs involve delivery of critical strategic business capabilities or regulatory changes that impact multiple business units or disciplines. 

This role is responsible for aligning resources, overseeing the budget, working with senior stakeholders, implementing and managing the overall program governance, creating project plans and tracking key milestones/risks/dependencies.

This is the key coordinator to ensure Implementation of critical business capabilities or regulatory change.

 

Major duties include:

Managing large scale, enterprise-wide Programs with multiple projects and work streams.Execution of a program initiated to deliver a change in the strategic direction of business function activities; expansion of critical business capabilities or implementation of cross business unit regulatory change.Managing implementation of complex initiatives involving multiple disciplines and/or ambiguous issuesDisplaying a balanced, cross-functional perspective, liaising with the business and technology to improve efficiency, effectiveness and productivityCommunication of program objectives; risks; issues and overall status to multiple levels of the organisation including senior stakeholdersFacilitation of cross discipline (business unit) coordination for decision making regarding scope; prioritisation and issue resolution.Implementation and management of the overall governance of the program, chairing meetings at multiple levels of the organisation and producing relevant reporting at all levels.

 

The ideal candidate should have a fair amount of the following skills:

Excellent communication skills; verbal, non-verbal and written are required for communication to all levels of the organizationIn-depth Functional; Technical and/or Industry Knowledge Highly flexible and adaptable to changeLeadership and organizational skills are required to determine the Program’s  goals, structure, budget and resource needPeople Management skills to be able to manage all situations, liaise and delegateTeam work skills to drive execution without direct reporting line responsibilitiesIndependent and proactive self starter Seasoned expert with program/project management expertise  Technical and/or business knowledge developed through previous industry experience.Experience in managing budgets and forecasting financialsHigh level of presentation skills to senior stakeholdersWaterfall and agile methodology experience required

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.