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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.
Job Summary: Associate Specialist, Middle Office, Trade Operations, Omnium Services
The Middle Office Trade Operations Associate Specialist plays a key role in the trade lifecycle by ensuring the accurate and timely capture, confirmation, and settlement of trades. The successful candidate will be a mature self-starter who has demonstrated the ability to function independently in a fast-paced, dynamic and demanding environment. This person needs to be able to resolve conflict within a short period of time. This person will be intellectually curious, intuitive, trustworthy and have the highest ethical standards. In addition, he/she will be effective addressing a number of internal and external audiences in a professional manner. This person will add value by working on a number of simultaneous tasks with minimal supervision and exemplary follow-through.
Key Responsibilities:
- Can identify inefficiencies and implement standardized processes and procedures
- Involved in development life cycle with writing business requirements and testing
- Training new hires and junior partners
- Evaluating bespoke client requests and analyzing next steps
- Can independently and confidently manage projects
- Expertise in BAU trade operations
- Ownership of onboarding new clients and helps transition to the BAU teams
Job Knowledge & Skills:
- Exceptional written, oral communication and people skills
- Proficiency in Microsoft Outlook, Word, and Excel (ability to create macros is a plus)
- Strong organizational skills, meticulous attention to detail and effective time management skills
- Ability to handle multiple tasks under extremely time sensitive conditions
- Excellent analytical skills and intellectually curious
- Operate with a continuous improvement and innovation mindset
- Full understanding of platform systems, workflows, and upstream/downstream dependencies and asset class expertise
- Model and embed Northern Trust cultural behaviors
WORK EXPERIENCE & EDUCATION
- Bachelor's degree strongly preferred
- 7-10+ years of industry experience in trade operations
- Hold themselves accountable and is passionate about delivering high quality work and servicing clients
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Salary Range:
$95,600 - 162,400 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 [email protected] .
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.
