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Sr. Implementation Lead (Finance)



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.

Summary:

Responsible for managing a large code porting program for a major legacy application, providing leadership and guidance to a cross-discipline set of partners/groups that will work on this large scale, complex, enterprise wide initiative. The successful candidate will act as the business lead for the program, working with technology and SQM teams to oversee technology change, business teams to understand business process impacts and interactions with other large scale modernization programs that align with this program.

Responsibilities:

  • Collaborate with internal stakeholders across technology and business to ensure implementation plans and working group materials are vetted and approved across all levels of management
  • Partner with Architecture and Enterprise teams on best practices and oversight of programs implementation.
  • Coordinate with third party vendor and drive their successful execution
  • Provide oversight of full program landscape to drive management transparency
  • Create and deliver compelling presentations, effectively communicate with senior internal clients, simplify complexity, and provide thoughtful and succinct recommendations
  • Assumes full accountability for the performance and budget of the area as compared to the plan.
  • Application Business Owner for the legacy application
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Qualifications

  • 15 + years of experience of managing large and complex program implementations with multiple systems involved, including vendor managed systems.
  • Has a detailed understanding and experience of global asset servicing business and technology life cycle.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Excellent budget management, time management and planning skills
  • Highly motivated, team player, self-starter and ability to work independently
  • Ability to partner with vendors, 3rd parties, clients, colleagues and develop positive working relationships to create an open positive working environment
  • Have experience with strategic planning, managing significant change initiatives with multiple stakeholders with varying priorities
  • Be comfortable navigating internal clients with the ability to drive decision making and gain consensus across groups, seniority levels, and interests in a complex global organization
  • Seasoned leader with extensive business experience, and broad functional expertise, with focus on proactive strategic leadership.
  • Detail oriented, strong analytical skills, advanced judgment capability, strong problem solving, and ability to manage workflow
  • Remaining calm under pressure
  • Excellent negotiation and conflict management skills with sufficient gravitas and credibility to work with the extended team to manage resources, dependencies etc.
  • Works Well to Deadlines

Salary Range:
$137,400 - 240,400 USD

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 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. Apply

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