Senior FX Business Manager

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: Northern Trust provides global coverage for our clients, and trades in 70+ countries through our comprehensive FX capabilities. We are looking to hire a Specialist in the Global Foreign Exchange (GFX) Business Enablement group, to join a new and growing team. The GFX Business Enablement group is responsible for the business administration and oversight of the risk & control environment for GFX. In this role, you will be reporting into the GFX Head of Business Enablement, supporting the Foreign Exchange trading desk. We are seeing an experienced yet ambitious candidate with a passion for delivery, excellent written and oral communication skills, diligently organized, and ready to ‘roll up their sleeves’. The individual should be ambitious and not afraid of a challenge.

The key responsibilities of this role include:

• Co-ordinate and manage documentation around business interaction with internal audit, risk & control teams, bringing in relevant SMEs where required and ensuring deliverables are consistently met.
• Work within the NT issue management standards following any issues until resolution.
• Work with Sales & Trading partners to provide business support, allowing those teams to prioritize client facing and risk management responsibilities.
• Document existing processes: draft policies, procedures, process flows, and other key documentation required to support the FX business.
• Liaise with key stakeholders across the 3 lines of defense to understand enterprise risk program standards and demonstrate how the business is addressing those risks.
• Partner with subject matter experts to write-up any incidents or near misses, or loss events.
• Assess existing front-office processes and help identify strategic changes identified as improvement opportunities.
• Develop strong knowledge of regulations, policies and procedures relevant to GFX, and take lead in ensuring regulatory and enterprise standards are met.

Skills/Qualifications:

• Proven professional experience within financial services or consulting firm and possesses a deep knowledge in Foreign Exchange trading.
• Understanding and/or experience of a robust Risk & Control framework, including operating within a 3 lines of defense model.
• Proven capability in high-quality execution, including both independent delivery, as well as supporting cross-functional stakeholders to drive change.
• Has deep knowledge of key business processes, products and services within the GFX.
• Excellent oral and written skills with the ability to present complex information that can be understood by non-subject matter experts.
• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills.
• Good stakeholder management skills, with a proven ability to work with team members of all levels across regions and time zones.

Working with Us: As a Northern Trust partner, greater achievements await. You will be part of a flexible and collaborative work culture in an organization where financial strength and stability is an asset that emboldens us to explore new ideas. Movement within the organization is encouraged, senior leaders are accessible, and you can take pride in working for a company committed to assisting the communities we serve! Join a workplace with a greater purpose. We’d love to learn more about how your interests and experience could be a fit with one of the world’s most admired and sustainable companies! Build your career with us and apply today.

Reasonable accommodation: Northern Trust is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please email our HR Service Center at MyHRHelp@ntrs.com. We hope you’re excited about the role and the opportunity to work with us. We value an inclusive workplace and understand flexibility means different things to different people. Apply today and talk to us about your flexible working requirements and together we can achieve greater.