Associate Specialist

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 Description Summary

• Responsible for improving data quality across the organization by implementing and maintaining an institutional data governance structure and data quality methodology. Establishes policies, standards and processes that will be developed and maintained to support the data governance function. As subject area expert, consults on data quality improvements across the organization. Change agent and advocate for the adoption of rigorous data quality management. 15+ years of experience

Job Description

Major Duties

Develop tools and processes used to maintain a common, data standard across the organization.
2. Assess, manage, maintain strategies that reduce data redundancy and increases the consistency / confidence of data used for decision making; improving knowledge firm-wide.
3. Define and deliver data management standards, processes and controls and content for the creation and maintenance of common data dictionaries.
4. Participates in periodic reviews to ensure continued compliance with the data governance policies (includes compliance assessments, monitoring and control testing).
5. Resolves conflicting priorities among data owners, data consumers and custodians within sphere of the domain.
6. Drive efficiency and risk mitigation through balancing business value and cost working with data owners, and consumers to deliver an efficient operating model and data architecture.
7. Collaborates with partners across the organization in maintaining the data governance and data quality structures ensuring we are meeting business needs while balancing quality, risk and cost.
8. Coordinate and implement data quality remediation efforts to ensure data meets the standards identified by the enterprise.
9. Experienced, functional expert with technical and/or business knowledge and functional expertise
10. Carries out complex initiatives involving multiple disciplines and/or ambiguous issues
11. Displays a balanced, cross-functional perspective, liaising with the business to help improve efficiency, effectiveness and productivity
12. Strategic in developing, implementing and administering programs within functional areas
13. Provides leadership and guidance to staff, fostering an environment that encourages employee participation, teamwork, and communication

Knowledge :

Strong understanding and capable of effectively communicating the role of Data Governance to both business and technical communities within the sphere of data domain; possess broad knowledge of the domain data
Understand key business drivers of those functions which enter, modify, manage, and consume the data within domain
Understand all aspects of defining and implementing data quality management
Possess excellent verbal and written communication skills
Possess proven facilitation and conflict resolution skills
Possess exceptional analytical, conceptual and problem-solving abilities with tools like Alteryx, PowerBi , Excel and SQL.

Expertise in Data Governance tools like Collibra / Alation

Experience in implementing Cloud Data Management over Snowflake and Azure ecosystem
Experience :

24 months as Consultant

12 months as Senior Consultant

• A College or University degree and/or relevant demonstrated work experience
• Certifications in Data Management is preferred.

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.