Head Of Strategic Finance & Productivity

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.

Head of Strategic Finance & Productivity

The Head of Strategic Finance and productivity will drive strategic change in aligning financial goals to business priorities and outcomes, organizational culture, and operating model efficiency. From a financial lens, this role is about creating strategic change that will deliver substantial benefits to our organization, including cost savings, increased accuracy, and the ability to deliver insightful financial data more rapidly. This role will also work from an organizational lens; improving our processes, removing redundancy, and increasing daily effectiveness, through both organizational structure and technology.

Responsibilities:

• Developing and executing financial strategies aligned with business goals, conducting financial analysis, and collaborating and advising senior management on key decisions.
• Working closely with senior leadership to align productivity goals with overall business objectives, ensuring sustainable growth and success.
  
• Aligning resources, evaluating, and categorizing capabilities, identifying those to strengthen and those to rationalize using various levers:
  
• Governance & decision-making forums and tools: building nimble Capital investment committee structures and decision-making frameworks aligned to strategic vision.
• Operating model design: identifying operational efficiency and effectiveness levers across business units including corporate shared services.
  
• Partnering with Information Technology: Identifying investment opportunities, platforms, and tools for automation and data analytics
  
• Collaborating across departments, assessing, and implementing productivity tools, and establishing performance metrics.
• Leading teams in fostering a culture of efficiency, innovation, and continuous improvement across the enterprise.
  
• Ongoing strategic organization review:
  
• Functional assessments, delayering, and b of control optimization.
• Establishing metrics to guide change and aid in accountability.
  
• Establishing appropriate change management to support the change dynamics.
  

Qualifications:

• Strong leadership, analytical skills, a strategic mindset, and an initiative-taking approach to innovation are essential for success in this role.
• 10 + years of experience in a Finance, Data, or Automation, role; preferably within a finance environment.
  
• Strong understanding of finance processes and the potential applications of technology within this area.
  
• Experience with AI, RPA, and other emerging technologies.
  
• Excellent problem solving, critical thinking and the ability to creative thinking about how technology is used to solve business challenges.
  
• Effective communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to non-technical audiences.
  
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Finance, or a related field. MBA 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. 

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.

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