Reference Data 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.

Description:

The Enterprise Data & Analytics (EDA) team is looking to hire a Reference Data Analyst.  This role will involve collaborating with various teams within the organization to gather relevant information to analyze, rationalize and summarize valid Reference Data values, and to identify the sources of truth.

Expectations:

Responsible for managing, analyzing and maintaining high quality Enterprise Reference Data. Specifically,

• Determine if a code set is an Enterprise Reference Data based on the relevant Standard and usage
• Profile and analyze raw data to identify, interpret and summarize patterns, outliers and data quality issues
• Conduct meetings with Data Owners, Data Stewards and Data Domain Leads to harmonize the code values and ensure completeness
• Identify the Data Owners, Data Custodians and Data Stewards for code sets
• Identify the Authoritative Data Sources (ADS) for code sets
• Utilize Collibra workflows to create code sets and to maintain data in the code sets
• Identify improvements to collibra workflows, translate them to requirements and partner with technology team to implement and validate the changes
• Define Business Terms as needed and ensure the Business Terms are added and approved in Collibra
• Catalog the code sets in Collibra and work with Data Custodian to ensure they are published to Data Mesh
• Validate Enterprise Code Set information is accurate in both the ADS and Data Mesh.
• Document the maintenance procedures for the Reference data.
• Keep the Reference Data up-to-date by following the maintenance procedures.

Skills/Experience

• At least 3 years in data analysis
• A College or University degree and/or relevant proven work experience is required
• Excellent analytical skills and attention to detail
• Proficiency in MS Office and SQL
• Ability to present ideas to both technical and business stakeholders and facilitate discussions
• Experience working in a fast-paced growth organization in a Global Delivery Model
• Strong communication and collaboration skills
• Financial Services domain knowledge will be a plus
• Experience with Agile application delivery
• Experience with Collibra is a plus

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.