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Job Description: Business Analyst
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.
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
Project Overview:
We are looking for a employee to come aboard who has experience in conducting analysis with expertise in different business areas, application wide analysis and proposal of solutions. This person will help assembles, analyze, and represents customer business requirements. They will perform feasibility analysis, scopes project, recommends alternative solutions, project strategy, and deliverable prioritization for an ongoing client reporting project for the Asset Management group
Role Overview:
•Assist with manual process and documenting the current state to document stakeholders with the future state of project needs
• Business, technology and financial feasibility assessment of product/project opportunities
• Documentation of business requirements using a range of elicitation techniques
• Ensure all Business requests are well documented/detailed and responded/approved in a timely manner.
• Work with SMEs and IT to ensure successful handover of requirements
• Experience in test planning and execution, reviewing Test scenarios, and framework
• Traceability of requirements from scope / requirements through to testing and implementation
• Self-managing tasks, effort, issues and risks throughout the project.
• Helping translate business requirement into technical reequipment in differentiates application areas.
• Determine IT business requirements and then translate such into specifications for technical projects
Qualifications:
• Writing technical requirements.
• Creating Analyzing application flows.
• Able to understand complex technical concepts quickly.
• Detail oriented, but understands broader impacts of requests.
• Adjusts quickly to changing priorities as necessary.
• Manages multiple tasks and deliverables simultaneously and in an organized and results-oriented manner.
• Strives to proactively identify and address areas where business process efficiency and effectiveness improvements would make a positive impact on the top and bottom lines.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Possesses a strong analytical, quantitative and objective outlook.
• Excellent people skills are also necessary since this position interacts with all levels of resources across the entire organization.
• Expert level skills utilizing Microsoft Visio, Excel and Word.
• Excellent interpersonal and diplomacy skills
• Sound verbal and written communication
• Comfortable interacting at all levels
• Effective presentation skills
• Excellent organizational and time management skills
• Able to establish and build effective working relationships at all levels
Nice to Have
• Strong business background including Financial Services
• Strong technology background with the ability to liaise and direct technical project teams.
Tasks & responsibilities:
• Document processes for future consumption/consideration in DPAD format
• Provide meeting notes/minutes for action/tracking purposes
• Responsible for high level implementation plans, data and process models, cost estimating, cost benefits analysis, and return on investments. These resources are also able to facilitate workshops such as JAD, RAD, and DRP sessions, etc.
• Conduct business process reviews to understand current state business processes and how underlying applications support can enable these processes.
• Collaborate with business partners and stakeholders to identify and define high level and detailed technical/business/functional requirements.
• Demonstrated success in facilitating discussions with all levels and functional areas of the organization.
• Prepare gap and impact analysis documentation if needed.
• Provide guidance to project team regarding technical and functional requirements.
• Partner with testing resources to identify testing requirements.
• Ensure and validate that delivered functionality meets the business objectives.
• Serve as the SME for User Acceptance Testing efforts.
• Proactively identify opportunities to utilize current or innovative technical solutions to improve business processes and/or products that provide additional revenue, cost savings or efficiency gains.
