Northern Trust
Sr Consult, Derivatives (Finance)
Northern Trust provides innovative financial services and guidance to corporations, institutions and affluent families and individuals globally. With over 130 years of financial experience and nearly 20,000 partners, we serve the world's most sophisticated clients using leading technology and exceptional service.
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We are seeking an innovative and experienced Business Analyst to join Northern Trust's Innovation and Change Team. The Business Analyst is responsible for creating process designs, business requirements, and acceptance criteria for our Operational Automation projects within our Derivative Practice. The successful candidate will work closely with the business stakeholders to evaluate, clean up, and improve processes to be automated, and then apply RPA and machine learning technologies to enable the automation.
The ideal candidate will demonstrate strong attention to detail and have analytical and problem-solving abilities. The candidate should have a background in process design, and be able to ask key questions in order to shape the to-be process for the most effective automation approach.
Requirements:
• Strong communication and problem-solving skills. The candidate should be able to ask the right questions to draw the information needed to develop a manual process into an effective, automated process.
• Connect the dots between siloed processes and have a big picture view.
• Experience in leveraging RPA tools in the automation of business processes, specifically Blue Prism a plus.
• Detailed knowledge about data structures and data management practices. Much of our automation needs are aligned to ensuring we are able to pull timely data.
• Demo automation processes and revise designs based on user & stakeholder feedback.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders in identifying/clarifying user story acceptance criteria, and supporting user acceptance test planning for each release.
• Identify additional opportunities and processes for RPA & Machine Learning automation.
Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Finance or related field and/or equivalent work experience
• 5+ years of work experience in the financial sector, ideally in a data or business analyst role
• Relevant certifications highly preferred, including Blue Prism, SQL, Markit EDM, Agile SCRUM
• Excellent organizational skills and an ability to prioritize multiple deliverables and work independently with minimum supervision.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills and meticulous attention to detail.
• Experience in the system development life cycle (SDLC) and working in an Agile SCRUM environment.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to build strong working relationships with our business stakeholders.
• Knowledge of financial operational processes, preferable in the derivative industry