• 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
• Defines and develops analytic capabilities that can be leveraged to solve cross-business function challenges in a business unit
• Supports the analytical needs of various business functions in a business unit, enabling strategic prioritization to deliver the most value
• Analyzes and understands Northern Trust’s core business processes and data flows to design and develop enduring solutions that provide analytical insights (both historical and predictive)
• Ensures best practice techniques are used to report the data in a form that is accurate and insightful
• Contributes to the development and delivery of solutions that: leverage and extend existing Business Intelligence and analytics infrastructure; consider metric governance and enterprise solutions alignment; are scalable, repeatable and effective; follow agreed upon governance and technology policies including use of Agile or SDLC processes
• Assists with applying and developing statistical models/methods to address business issues
• Develops metrics and create ad-hoc reporting as needed
• Assists internal customers with operational change management activities required to realize business value from the analytics solution
• Ensures issues are identified, tracked, reported on and resolved in a timely manner
• Rapidly and effectively adapts to highly dynamic and fast-paced work environment
• Participates in special projects as needed and perform other duties as assigned
• Fosters a positive and collaborative environment
• Focus of role is on execution of strategic direction of business function activities
• Acts as a resource for colleagues with less experience
• May lead small projects with manageable risks and resource requirements