Implementation Manager - Finbourne

Northern Trust; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 137,400 - 240,400; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401k and pension

Health and welfare benefits

Paid time off

Job summary

Northern Trust is seeking an Implementation Manager to lead a large-scale cloud transformation in the portfolio accounting domain. You will design a scalable future state and own delivery, budgets, and profitability while guiding managers and staff.

You will leverage Azure, SQL, Java and APIs, applying Agile practices to deliver complex products with cross-functional teams across technology and business units.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field.
• 10+ years in portfolio or fund accounting implementations.
• Strategic planning and profitability oversight experience.
• Strong leadership across multiple teams and programs.
• Proficient with Azure, SQL, Java and APIs; Agile product sense.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive strategy for enterprise-wide initiatives and link to roadmaps.
• Oversee project delivery and ensure alignment with objectives.
• Manage budgets, resources, timelines, and profitability.
• Provide strategic leadership within accounting and daily valuation offerings.
• Lead cross-functional teams and coordinate with senior management and clients.

Skills

Leadership

Agile experience

Communication

Cloud experience

Azure

SQL

Java

APIs

Organizational skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Finance, CS, Math, Stats, Economics

Tools

Azure cloud

SQL

Java

APIs

Job description

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.

Working Model

Hybrid – balanced hybrid working model to ensure flexibility: time between office and home.

Job Description

Implementation Manager to lead a large scale, highly complex, enterprise wide cloud transformation initiative. Responsible for designing and implementing a scalable future state technology, business, product, and operating model in the portfolio accounting and fund accounting domain. Provides leadership to managers and professional staff, full ownership of project deliverables, ensures alignment with corporate strategic initiatives, and accountable for performance, profitability, and career development.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive strategy and innovative solutions for enterprise-wide initiatives that address current and future business challenges and achieve organizational objectives.
• Look across all corporate strategic initiatives to understand how the big picture initiatives link together in a holistic roadmap.
• Oversee, plan, and direct the activities of the project, ensuring that business objectives are being met.
• Develop, implement, and communicate an overall strategy to meet both the Business Unit's and Corporation's strategic plan. Direct the activities of those areas toward accomplishing those objectives.
• Assume accountability for financial and staffing resources, including developing and managing capital and expense budgets focused on continually improving efficiency, effectiveness, and productivity.
• Assume full accountability for timeline, delivery, performance, and profitability of the implementation.
• Utilize extensive business experience and broad functional expertise to provide proactive strategic leadership, particularly within accounting, unitization, and daily valuation product offerings.
• Have extensive track record of delivering complex products or transformation initiatives using Agile software development methodologies.
• Have cross-functional knowledge across the business and technology, with familiarity building scalable, stable, resilient software in the cloud.
• Coordinate and align priorities across stakeholders, including senior management, program leadership, other strategic initiatives, and clients/prospects.
• Work directly with clients and prospects to market and implement the future state products.
• Engage with and manage third‑party vendors, including staff augmentation and external service providers.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field (Finance, Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Economics).
• 10+ years of relevant industry experience in portfolio accounting or fund accounting domains.
• Knowledge of business strategy development necessary to provide long‑term planning and manage profitability/performance of major implementation.
• Leadership and organizational skills to direct activities of multiple teams.
• Technical skills and ability to learn new technology; conversant with Azure cloud technology, SQL, Java, and APIs.
• Excellent organizational skills; ability to prioritize multiple deliverables and work independently with minimum supervision.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• A collaborative approach; Agile experience as a product owner or product manager required.
• Experience working with cloud applications is a plus, but not required.

Salary Range

$137,400 - 240,400 USD. Salary range is a good‑faith estimate of base pay. Northern Trust provides a comprehensive benefits package including retirement benefits (401k and pension), health and welfare benefits (medical, dental, vision, spending accounts and disability), paid time off, parental and caregiver leave, life & accident insurance, and other voluntary and well‑being benefits.

Work Authorization

Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S. without the need for employment‑based visa sponsorship now or in the future. Northern Trust will not sponsor applicants for U.S. work visa status for this opportunity (no sponsorship is available).