Assoc Specialist, Data Governance

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.

Reporting to the Data Lead for Custody and Transactions

Responsibilities:

This is a new role in Northern Trust to act as an on the ground active investigator for long-running or major data quality issues.  This is a role that requires analysis as well as leading conversations with various teams in order to ensure collaboration and that fixes are completed. 

• Define ownership and stewardship from business process / business capability perspective, using latest business capability mapping
• Identifying business data owners for the CDEs from the business processes owners
• Advising and assisting Settlements and Transactions Business Domain staff in data cataloging and lineage of CDEs in Collibra.
• Data transformations documented for CDEs including ownership / responsibilities around those transformations with an eye to how this will be monitored / maintained in BAU.
• Data Quality requirements for producers and consumers of CDEs of legacy applications are documents and owned across the business domain with an eye to how this will be monitored / maintained in BAU.
• Ensure prioritized issues from the Data Quality Escalation Forum are investigated for root cause analysis, that fixes are owned and implemented on an ongoing basis
• Work closely with Settlements & Transactions Data Product Owner on legacy process issues uncovered for different data products.
• Investigate data related issues (from the DQ Escalation Forum or from S&T Data Product Owner) with Operational staff uncovering process / control issues, making recommendations on the action plan to remediate the issues and then ensuring that this is completed in the agreed timescales.  
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Requirements:

• Senior BA experience with complex data environments where quite a lot of investigation and analysis is constantly required.  Ability to handle running into roadblocks and moving around them.  Also excellent process and issue documentation is required.
• Experience with taking issue management from identification to completion having to work with multiple teams over time is required
• Financial Services experience in Operations required
• Excellent SQL querying is required
• Experience with Agile
• Familiarity with DCAM framework.
• Ability to work to priority list and tight schedules
• Ability to propose solutions to both business and IT
• Good interpersonal skills with the business.
• Experience with Alteryx is a plus.
• Experience with Collibra is a plus.

Salary Range:

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 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.