Specialist, Product Owner

About Northern Trust

As a global leader in innovative wealth management, asset servicing, asset management and banking services, Northern Trust (Nasdaq: NTRS) is proud to guide the world’s most successful individuals, families, corporations and institutions.

Since 1889, we have aligned our efforts with our three guiding Principles That Endure: Service, Expertise, and Integrity. Together, they reflect the three cornerstones of business conduct which we strive to instill in our employees, whom we call partners, and to provide to our clients and the communities we serve worldwide.

With more than 135 years of financial experience and over 24,000 partners, we serve the world’s most sophisticated clients using leading technology and exceptional service.

Summary Responsible for working on single large scale, multiple projects or a work stream of projects. The Business Analysis function plays a key role during the onset of a project or program by helping define scope and create requirements by working closely with business partners to understand and translate needs.  This role serves as a contact for IT during the design, development, and testing phase.  Functional expertise is required.

Key BA Competency expectations for role: End to end software development life cycle experience covering: - Gathering requirements, process modelling and data analysis

Working with the design teams to ensure that the requirements are understood and that the delivered design fulfils all the requirements adequately

Supporting the technology teams through the build and unit test activities to ensure that all requirements are understood

Working with business teams to elicit input and support the planning and execution of user acceptance testing

Supporting the test team through pre-acceptance testing, system testing and system integration testing

Assisting with operation readiness, data migration, user testing and roll-out as necessary

BA skills covering: Understand business strategy and collaborate with business and technology to facilitate the development project scope

Lead development of function and non-functional business requirements

Responsible for providing expertise, analysis and driving change for a variety of strategic transformational and operational initiatives

Look across corporate strategic initiatives to understand how big picture initiatives link together in a holistic roadmap

Provide oversight, direction, and management to assigned scrum team members with appropriate span of control

Review requirements for quality and completeness and hold team accountable to senior business analyst execution standards

Skill/ Domain Knowledge: Experience of having worked in a Global Custody and/or Securities Servicing environment is key, Trade Settlement process knowledge is a must.

Experience & knowledge on SAFe Agile delivery framework.

Good knowledge and experience of working on tools like Micorsoft 365 tools, Visio, Miro and ADO and co-pilot

Strong communication skills, collaboration and stakeholder management

Experience of working in a large multiyear global transformation project

Ability to quickly interpret/decipher trends, identify early signs from available data and formulate effective strategies and actions in achieving program objectives.

Highly flexible and adaptable to change

Having done the Business Analysis role for 15 years or more

Hands on experience in Product owner or Product Manager roles.

BA and Agile or SaFE Agile certifications are encouraged

Experience: For internal applications - 24 months as Senior Consultant Seasoned expert with extensive financial services experience and Trade Settlements process knowledge that has been developed over 15+ years and/or equivalent experience Education MBA/PGDM in any specialization

B.Com/BA/BE in any specialization

Working with Us

As a Northern Trust partner, you will be part of a flexible and collaborative work culture, which has a strong history of financial strength and stability. Movement within the organization is encouraged, senior leaders are accessible, and you can take pride in working for a company committed to an inclusive workplace and assisting the communities we serve.

Philanthropy is deeply rooted in Northern Trust’s history and is an essential element of our culture. Employees around the world give their time and talent to work for the greater good of their communities.

Reasonable Accommodation

Northern Trust is committed to working with and providing adjustments to individuals with health conditions and disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please email our HR Service Center at MyHRHelp@ntrs.com , or alternatively you can discuss your individual requirements with the recruiter you are working with.

About Our Bangalore Office

The Northern Trust Bangalore office, established in 2005, is home to over 5,600 employees.  In this stunning office space, we offer fantastic amenities which include our Arrival Hub - Jungle, the GameZone, and the Employee Experience Zone that appeal to both clients and employees.  Learn more.