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.

The Data Analyst will join the Technology Strategic Spend Team to drive the delivery of information for decision making and various analysis for Northern Trust's Technology Organization. This role is responsible for Technology-specific analysis and information delivery focused on optimization of labor, software, and hardware. The ideal candidate will have a strong analytical mindset, hands-on technical skills, and the ability to translate complex business needs into impactful data solutions.

Major Duties

• Support the analytics needs of Technology’s Strategic Spend organization and enable insights across the broader Technology organization.
• Works with business leaders and stakeholders to understand their strategies, how they align with corporate strategies and determine ways to use analytics to drive decision making
• Work with the IT Optimization team to develop and report on metrics and key performance indicators
• Work with Enterprise License Management team to develop and report on utilization of software and hardware licenses to maintain compliance
• Work with the Total Cost of Ownership team to deliver reporting to application teams and Technology Leadership.
• Use a combination of tools (SQL, Power BI, Excel, and/or Power Point) to create and deliver insightful reporting in a sustainable and scalable manner
• Create and maintain requirements, specifications, and business processes documentation
• Ensure issues are identified, tracked, reported on and resolved in a timely manner
• Identify opportunities to enhance processes regarding data flow and data quality to improve accuracy, viability and value
• Foster a positive and collaborative environment
  
  

Required Skills, Knowledge, And Qualifications

• 3-5 years of experience in data analytics, reporting, business intelligence
• Bachelors Degree in a related field and/or equivalent work experience required.
• Candidate must have strong presentation and reporting skills, as well as high degrees of skill with Power BI, SQL, Excel, and Power Point.
• Ability to manipulate large amounts of data for analytical projects and translate that data into sound insights.
• Familiarity with relational and dimensional database concepts, querying, data warehouses, requirements gathering and/or decision support tools preferred Strong project management skills a plus
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills to collaborate across technology teams.
  
  

Salary Range

$83,100 - 141,300 USD

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 [email protected].

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.