- SALARY:NONE
- Chicago, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
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.
Overview
The Technology Refresh and Estate Management program governs EOL Lifecycle across all asset classes for Northern Trust. The data analyst will develop reports and provide data analysis support through ad-hoc and repeated reporting requests. This role will provide data analysis and reporting ensuring that the EOL assets are correctly identified and the execution of the EOL / EOS capabilities are appropriately reported on. This role will report through the Enterprise Architecture organization and report directly in the Technology Refresh and Estate Management program.
Major Duties
1. Consults with partners regarding new techniques, practices, or technologies in data processing and the impact of proposed and ongoing projects. 2. Provides analytical insights for management through development of PowerBI or other reporting platform reports.
3. Develops reports in coordination with disparate data sets from different data repositories within Northern Trust. 4. Reviews reports with leadership to align data trends to in scope project work.
5. Evaluates and makes recommendation on techniques, practices, or technologies that would enhance business needs. Also does work to ensure continuous process improvements. Examples could include providing usability improvements to Excel documents.
6. Develops or maintains data driven reporting and analysis, including designing, coding, testing, debugging, and installation as needed.
7. Conducts feasibility studies and defines and designs system requirements for complex data processing projects.
8. Prepares project phase reports, including requirements, feasibility, definition and design. May also review and validate requirements, definition and design to evaluate production impact and support requirements
9. Carries out activities that are large in scope and technically difficult
10. Role is balanced between high level operational execution and development, and execution of strategic direction of business function activities
Knowledge
- Knowledge of reporting tools, programming languages, various business applications, state of the art technology, and current trends in the computer industry is required to evaluate and recommend new technologies.
- Knowledge of various application designs and programming techniques, usually acquired through related experience, is required to evaluate processes.
- Analytical and problem solving skills are needed for systems guidance.
- Comfortable with cloud and server technology both terminology and upcoming trends.
Experience
- A College or University degree and/or relevant proven work experience is required
- Experience with project feasibility, definition requirements, and design and/or project leadership.
- Experience with various technical programming languages, and phase report studies are required.
- Expert level skills with Excel are required.
- Development experience with PowerBI is required. Development using Python or similar programming languages is a plus.
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
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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.