Sr Consultant, 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.

Major Duties :1. 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. 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. 7. Carries out activities that are large in scope, cross-functional and technically difficult. 8. Role is balanced between high level operational execution and development, and execution of strategic direction of business function activities. 9. Conducts preliminary analysis. 10. Responsible for direct interaction with different committees and/or management. 11. Strategic in developing, implementing and administering programs within functional areas. Knowledge :- Knowledge of Data Governance, Data Quality, and Enterprise Data Management concepts. - Understand and be capable of effectively communicating the role of Data Governance to both business and technical communities within the sphere of the data domain. - Excellent oral and written communication skills are required. - In-depth Functional / Industry Knowledge is required - Highly flexible and adaptable to change. - Technical skills / systems knowledge (e.g. Peoplesoft) is required Experience :A College or University degree and/or relevant proven work experience is required / preferred. Related Industry qualification (e.g. ACCA) is required / 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

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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.