Sr. Analyst, Data Management, Hedge Fund Service

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.

Summary:

The successful candidate will be an ambitious self-starter, intellectually curious, intuitive, and trustworthy and have the highest ethical standards.  This person will add value by working on a number of simultaneous projects with minimal supervision and exemplary follow-through.  We enjoy individuals who have the ability to think independently and ask intelligent questions (e.g. challenge the status quo, investigate data challenges deeply and creatively); and the ability to cooperate, working and monitoring members of the team assigned to a specific area/project. The ideal candidate should work actively with the team, efficiently manage day to day data tasks, and bring efficiency of all projects. 

Team Description

The Data Management team is responsible for creating and maintaining the security master (Examples: ETFs, Options, Futures, Common Stocks, etc.), utilizing available external data (Bloomberg, Reuters, etc), and internally engineered and 3rd party systems, to properly research, validate, and represent a security for global consumption. This support also includes researching and validating Mandatory Corporate Action events in the marketplace.  Data will also include maintaining data surrounding legal entities/clients of a global fund administrator and pricing. 

Duties and Responsibilities

• Interface with our Data Vendor Providers regarding security master data, classifications, etc.
• Make independent judgments (based upon market/instruments practices) regarding appropriate resolutions for data discrepancies
• Work with shared office teams and/or Clients to ensure proper impact for Security Master Attributes update
• Interact with participants and groups to overview initiatives and special announcements
• Contribute to projects via special testing process and activities related to restructuring of our SM database
• Provide input/modify procedures and control in order to prevent/reduce breaks/risks
• Define and work on projects related to mass data acquisition, cleansing and uploading.  Communicate with the Back Office, IT and other Knowledge Management personnel to achieve project objectives.
• Assist in building international and domestic proprietary databases related to securities information gathered through research and analysis of securities data
• Make independent/educated judgments regarding appropriate resolutions of data anomalies
• Define and prioritize special projects, provide regular status to business and KM manager, and project manage through to completion
• Responsible for maintaining data surrounding legal entities, accounts, investor funds, addresses, and standard settlement instructions for all financial products
• Oversight of regulatory projects as they relate to the team such as FATCA/LEI/T+1 Settlement changes as well as other projects which improve the efficiency and capabilities of the team

Qualifications                                                        

• Excellent analytic skills as well as exemplary written and verbal communication skills
• General knowledge of the financial markets and functional knowledge of a wide range of asset classes. 
• Detail-oriented with the high degree of accuracy and a strong work ethic
• Proficiency in MS Office (e.g. Excel, Word, Outlook) computer applications. Basic IT skills (database queries, file manipulation) etc.
• Experience with Bloomberg products, Reuters or any general market data providers desirable
• SQL
• 1- or 3-years’ experience in financial services

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Finance, Economics, or above

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Salary Range:

$52,800 - 79,200 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