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