Associate Specialist Business Analysis

Northern Trust Corp; Pune District; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 5,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Northern Trust Corp in Pune, India seeks an Associate Specialist in Business Analysis to support Reporting Standards across the 1LOD and 2LOD. You will develop data maps, data dictionaries, and central extracts for board metrics and scorecards, ensuring consistency in governance forums while escalating compliance concerns.

The role requires 11–15 years in financial services with strong BI skills, Excel proficiency, and preferred experience in ServiceNow.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in business administration, management, or a related field.
• MBA or related advanced credentials preferred.
• 11–15 years in financial services with BA/PM/BI experience.

Responsibilities

• Reporting Standards and Alignment: define reports and data maps for 1LOD/2LOD.
• Health of Control Environment: produce trend reports and data extracts.
• Control and Issue standards: run data quality reports and identify trends.
• Enterprise Thematic Analysis: identify enterprise trends and remediation actions.
• Review and Challenge: respond to 2LOD requests and escalate complex issues.
• Assist transformation across a global organization with defined timelines.

Skills

Reporting

Power BI

Excel

Data mapping

Education

Bachelor’s degree in business/related field

MBA preferred

Tools

ServiceNow

Job description

## Associate Specialist Business AnalysisApply: Pune, India: Full time: Posted Today: End Date: October 16, 2026 (9 days left to apply): R160910**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. **Role - Associate Specialist**Based in the first line of defense within the Enterprise COO function, we are seeking a proactive and detail-oriented Reporting Specialist to support the ongoing implementation of the Reporting Standards across Northern Trust. This will involve supporting 1st and 2nd line of defense stakeholders standardizing controls and issues reporting across the governance forums, to ensure consistency through development of reporting standards, data metrics, data dictionaries, reports, and data quality, while establishing communities of practice for ongoing oversight and learning.This individual will become deeply familiar with data sourcing, data standards and be responsible for answering questions that arise from partners as Issues and Controls metrics are reported in the governance committees. In addition, this individual will also work closely with various stakeholders to ensure ongoing escalation of implementation and compliance concerns. The ideal candidate will have a risk and compliance background, experience working across the three lines of defense, experience with data mapping, business analysis and Power BI (or similar solutions). Principal Responsibilities**Reporting Standards and Alignment:** Define standard set of tactical and strategic reports needed and align stakeholders on data sources and data maps to be used for board, scorecard, and other metrics within the 1LOD and 2LOD. This includes creation and maintenance of the data map, establishing data dictionary, and aligning standards across 1LOD and 2LOD**Health of Control Environment and Issue Management:** Create standard set of reports, including report trends, and \"central\" data extracts. Produce any ad-hoc reports needed by the CCO teams**Control and Issue standards adherence:** create and run data quality reports, work with the team to resolve exceptions, and produce metrics to identifying trends**Enterprise Thematic Analysis**: Understand the overall health of the internal control environment (including issues), identify trends, weaknesses, and determination of required mitigation actions.**Review and Challenge**: Respond to the 2LOD review and challenge requestsIdentify and escalate situations that include complex challenges and articulate actionable plans to drive results, while demonstrating exceptional organizational skills and attention to detailDemonstrate experience in reviewing and interpreting deliverables, providing recommendations, and taking initiative on projects or team tasks, while managing multiple priorities effectively and driving outcomes independentlyAssist in the transformation and change across a global organization in line with a defined project timeline, particularly in enhancing processes and controls supporting issues and control reportingPerform thematic read-across to identify enterprise trends and opportunities, formulating remediation plans and ownership to address.**Skills / Experience** For internal applications - 24 months as Consultant or at a P2 levelMinimum of 11-15 years in financial services and experience/expertise in Business Analysis, Reporting, CCO or Internal Audit related role.Demonstrated willingness in driving transformation and change across a global organization.Experience in risk and control assessments (e.g., RCSA, Compliance Risk Assessment) to support an understanding of risk and control framework for the reporting purposesStrong communication written/oral skills, ability to communicate complex topics in a simple and concise mannerProficient in Excel and Power BI, and other business applicationsExperience using ServiceNow is strongly desiredAbility to think strategically, execute with precision and prioritize in a fast-paced environmentBachelor’s degree in business administration, management, or a related field. An MBA, or related advanced credentials preferred.