Sr Project Manager - Wealth Management

About Northern Trust

As a global leader in innovative wealth management, asset servicing, asset management and banking services, Northern Trust (Nasdaq: NTRS) is proud to guide the world’s most successful individuals, families, corporations and institutions.

Since 1889, we have aligned our efforts with our three guiding Principles That Endure: Service, Expertise, and Integrity. Together, they reflect the three cornerstones of business conduct which we strive to instill in our employees, whom we call partners, and to provide to our clients and the communities we serve worldwide.

With more than 135 years of financial experience and over 24,000 partners, we serve the world’s most sophisticated clients using leading technology and exceptional service.

Summary:

Responsible for working on multiple projects of varying size and complexity in a concurrent manner within the Wealth Management BU.  The Project Management function manages a BU project or program to successful outcome.  This role is responsible for aligning resources, overseeing the budget (if applicable), creating project plans, tracking key milestones/risks/dependencies and facilitating working group discussions.  This is the key coordinator to ensure activities are completed.  Qualified candidates should demonstrate strong project

management skills, with an attention to detail and project deadlines.  The ideal candidate will possess and demonstrate knowledge of the Wealth Management business.

Major Duties:

• Carry out activities that vary in scope, complexity and teams involved
• Ability to lead a variety of projects providing solid project leadership, planning, execution, governance and direction
• Build relationships across teams to learn and enable success
• Strategic in developing, implementing and administering programs with a focus on flawless project execution

Demonstrate effective project leadership ability, including working with project sponsors, drafting proposals, creating and managing detailed project plans, risk logs, issue logs and submitting for capital budgets (if applicable)

• Manage multiple projects and competing priorities simultaneously
• Conduct analysis and develops scope related to projects of varying complexity
• Develop and maintain business cases and related plans

Demonstrate excellent communication skills through coordination and execution across initiatives potentially impacting all facets of the business (i.e., front-office, middle-office, operations, IT, Risk, Legal, Compliance, etc.)

Display strong attention to detail while managing across programs through preparation for project meetings, including producing agendas and meeting notes, as well as project communications and any other necessary administrative details to ensure success.

• Demonstrate understanding of budgetary and resource impact to projects and active management/issue resolution in both
• Display an appropriate sense of urgency and understanding of inherent project risk
• Ability to partner with key stakeholders to define key success metrics and measure progress against such metrics

Knowledge / Skills:

• Excellent analytical, consultative, communication (oral and written) and judgement skills
• In-depth functional / industry knowledge is strongly preferred
• Highly flexible and adaptable to change
• Ability to multi-task and manage multiple projects in concurrent manner
• Motivated and self-driven individual with strong time management skills
• Operates independently, but executes projects in partnership with key stakeholders
• Strong interpersonal skills are required for collaboration, negotiation and team building
• Proficient with Microsoft applications (Excel, Word, Powerpoint, Visio)

Experience Required:

• At least 5 or more years of proven project management related experience is required
• A college or university degree is preferred
• Related industry knowledge is preferred