Jobs at Northern Trust

Manage Trade and Transaction Reporting initiatives across business analysis, project delivery, regulatory change, requirements definition, testing, and rollout. Translate regulatory guidance into business and functional requirements, coordinate Tech, Operations, Compliance, Legal, and Front Office stakeholders, establish data mappings and controls, oversee UAT and production parallel testing, and communicate project status. The role requires substantial capital markets and transaction reporting experience, strong analytical and stakeholder management skills, and the ability to deliver complex transformation programs.

Provides compensation consulting and strategic advice to business leaders and HR partners. Develops pay recommendations, conducts job evaluations and market-pricing analyses, supports pay equity and compensation governance, and translates complex data into executive-ready recommendations. Leads and supports global annual compensation cycles, including planning, testing, stakeholder communications, and issue resolution. Requires strong analytical, consulting, communication, project management, and change management skills.

Leads UK Transfer Agency operations across the UK, Ireland, and India, overseeing service delivery, fund administration processes, controls, regulatory compliance, operational resilience, client escalations, transformation, workforce planning, budgets, and talent management. Acts as a senior escalation point and strategic partner to executive leadership while ensuring scalable, controlled, and high-quality investor servicing across multi-location teams.

Leads complex, cross-functional Treasury and Finance initiatives from planning through delivery. The role embeds Treasury considerations into enterprise change, manages governance and controls, tracks audit and regulatory actions, develops reporting frameworks, performs strategic analysis, mitigates risks, and drives stakeholder alignment across Finance, Treasury, IT, Operations, and Risk. It requires independent judgment, strong prioritization, analytical rigor, and effective communication with senior stakeholders.

Provides securities lending subject-matter expertise and operational project support across global teams. Responsibilities include managing regulatory changes, IT development and testing, business continuity, outsourcing certification, CSDR oversight, audit and CASS activities, offshore team performance, new product onboarding, and industry communications. The role also provides management coverage and ensures operational compliance across international Trade Support and Collateral teams.

Leads innovation within the Enterprise Change Management Office by identifying AI and automation opportunities, designing future-state operating models, developing prototypes and production solutions, and driving enterprise adoption. Oversees innovation frameworks, policies, controls, roadmaps, integrations, feedback loops, and measurable value realization while partnering with business, technology, risk, architecture, engineering, and organizational change teams.

Leads enterprise change management programs across business units and regions, establishing governance standards and managing scope, schedules, budgets, resources, risks, dependencies, and performance metrics. Facilitates steering committees, coordinates organizational change communications, ensures legal, compliance, procurement, and technology involvement, and drives implementation and continuous improvement. The role also oversees financial forecasting, planning, stakeholder accountability, and rollout of new ECM offerings.

Owns the strategy, lifecycle, governance, adoption, and performance of enterprise personal productivity AI tools such as Microsoft Copilot. Translates business needs into AI capabilities, manages roadmaps and launches, tracks adoption and productivity KPIs, conducts risk assessments and audits, oversees financial performance, and coordinates business, technology, risk, compliance, and executive stakeholders in a regulated environment.

Provides expert guidance on complex employee relations matters, including workplace investigations, disciplinary actions, grievances, performance concerns, and terminations. Advises managers and HR teams on employment legislation, policy interpretation, risk mitigation, and conflict resolution. Partners with Legal and business stakeholders, analyzes employee relations trends, improves policies and practices, mentors HR professionals, and leads employee relations initiatives while handling confidential matters.

Leads the design, implementation, and evolution of enterprise third-party risk management programs. Responsibilities include developing risk methodologies, operating models, controls, documentation, reporting, training, gap analyses, regulatory impact guidance, and technology enablement. The role coordinates global business units, manages stakeholder relationships, supports system implementations, prioritizes process automation requirements, and serves as a subject matter expert for third-party risk, issue and incident management, and regulatory compliance.

Leads complex, cross-functional programs involving multiple projects and workstreams. Responsibilities include establishing governance, roadmaps, integrated plans, delivery cadence, and decision forums; managing scope, dependencies, risks, resources, costs, and milestones; coordinating business, product, technology, operations, and control stakeholders; supporting pilots, implementation, adoption, executive reporting, benefit tracking, and operational transition. The initial program focuses on AI, automation, and emerging technologies, with future assignments potentially spanning strategic, regulatory, product, data, digital, and change initiatives.

Lead enterprise data modelling and semantic/knowledge modelling across Snowflake and Databricks, govern canonical entities and lineage, define standards and guardrails, support agentic AI data products, mentor architects, and present architecture to stakeholders to ensure compliance, performance, and interoperability.

Lead UK localisation and enhancement of Northern Trust's insurance investment accounting product. Ensure UK GAAP/IFRS17/Solvency II/SORP compliance, design UK reporting and operational model, support client acquisition/onboarding, oversee integrations and month-end processes, produce UK-compliant reporting, and collaborate cross-functionally to drive product improvements and client engagement.

Manage and optimise institutional equity securities lending portfolios and support build-out of equity total return swap products. Execute lending and swap trades, monitor risk, collateral, and P&L, engage counterparties and clients, produce reporting and market commentary, and partner with cross-functional teams to improve controls, automation, and product development.

Lead and oversee global KYC/EDD controls and processes, act as subject-matter expert advising on AML/KYC, support a multi-year KYC transformation, manage oversight, risk escalations, regulatory exams and reporting, and drive centralization and efficiency across first- and second-line teams.