Senior Business Analysis Consultant - Hybrid

ntrs; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 83,000 - 141,000; Full time

Job summary

Northern Trust, a global leader in wealth management, asset servicing, and banking, is seeking a data-driven analyst to lead complex data analyses across sources and partner with stakeholders to define business needs. The role focuses on designing reports, models, dashboards, and tools to enable informed decision-making and operational excellence.

The position operates in a hybrid model, with time split between office and home, and requires strong analytical, communication, and cross-functional

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant discipline required; advanced degree preferred.
• 5+ years of relevant experience in a related role or function required.

Responsibilities

• Leads complex data analysis efforts across multiple sources to identify trends, risks, opportunities, and actionable business insights.
• Partners with stakeholders to define business needs, frame problem statements, and translate objectives into analytical workstreams and deliverables.
• Designs and improves reports, models, templates, dashboards, and business analysis tools that support decision-making and operational effectiveness.
• Evaluates current processes, workflows, controls, and service models to identify opportunities for integration, simplification, and improvement.
• Develops recommendations for solving complex business problems by weighing tradeoffs, impacts, dependencies, and implementation considerations.
• Leads smaller projects or components of larger initiatives, coordinating milestones, stakeholder inputs, data requirements, and communication plans.
• Monitors progress, results, and business outcomes for assigned workstreams and communicates insights, risks, and recommendations to management.
• Supports change initiatives by helping define future-state processes, testing requirements, and readiness activities tied to business solutions.
• Acts as a functional resource to colleagues by sharing analytical approaches, review methods, and best practices in business problem-solving.
• Ensures deliverables are timely, accurate, well-documented, and aligned with business priorities, policies, and quality expectations.

Skills

Business analysis

Data analysis

Excel

PowerPoint

Communication

Project coordination

Cross-functional collaboration

Problem solving

MS Office

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

None

Job description

Northern Trust, a global leader in wealth management, asset servicing, and banking, is seeking a data-driven analyst to lead complex data analyses across sources and partner with stakeholders to define business needs. The role focuses on designing reports, models, dashboards, and tools to enable informed decision-making and operational excellence.

The position operates in a hybrid model, with time split between office and home, and requires strong analytical, communication, and cross-functional