Business Product 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.

Role/ Department:
 

Due to a significant increase in workload especially in the area of regulatory reporting analysis we need to recruit a graduate trainee in the Brokerage Product Owner team

The key responsibilities of the role include:

• Partners with Product Management and Business stakeholders to influence, support, and champion product vision and roadmaps, and to coordinate value realization across teams beyond their direct responsibility
• Anticipates potential future client needs and proactively positions product capabilities to take advantage of business opportunities
• Maintains a well-groomed backlog of development items to be used for efficient implementation of projects
• Influences the shape and champions the adoption of automated testing frameworks; reviews and agrees acceptance criteria for new development and signs off on business-readiness, in coordination with quality assurance team members
• Face off to Feature Team Business Owner
• Agree catalogue priorities
• Provide estimates and costs
• Provide ongoing progress updates
• Discuss timescales and resource constraints
• Provide product demos
• Discuss phased delivery
• Manage Feature Team Priorities and Work Items with Technology
• Be responsible for delivery of the requirement as it moves through the sprint cycle from development to testing to go-live
• Add JIRA’s to sprints and provide feedback to Business owners regarding effort and delivery dates
• Discuss effort with development and add estimates to JIRAs
• Document requirements and raise JIRAs
• Face off to business users to capture detailed global requirements
• Update technology on Business Owners priorities
• Documentation and Testing
• Work with the test team to script the changes for initial delivery and then discuss automation and regression
• Document changes and educate support team and the business.  Each major delivery or change will be included in a ‘Quick Reference Guide (QRG)’
• Assist support teams in each region post go-live

 

Skills/ Qualifications:

• No prior product or business knowledge is required and on the job training will be given
• Excellent communication and problem-solving skills
• A willingness to learn and a high level of enthusiasm is needed
• Comfortable operating in a technical environment involving complex business logic and its programmatic implementation
• A strong work ethic
• The ability to listen to advice, absorb and react to it
• Be able to adapt to different situations and take ownership of issues
• Good communication skills

Salary Range:

$60,720 - 91,080 USD

Salary range is a good faith estimate of base pay. Northern Trust provides a comprehensive benefits package including retirement