Tech Strategy & Financial Analytics Consultant

ACCA Careers; Chicago (IL); Híbrido; USD 83.000 - 141.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Northern Trust is seeking a Business Consultant to join the Technology Strategic Spend Team to drive IT capital expenditure analyses and strategic planning. The role focuses on budgeting, forecasting, vendor/technology decision analyses, and cross-functional collaboration with Finance and Procurement.

The ideal candidate has 7–10 years of related experience, strong analytics skills, and proficiency with Power BI, SQL, Excel, and PowerPoint to present insights to senior leadership.

Formación

• 7 to 10 years of related experience in analysis and reporting.
• Strong written and verbal communication for senior leadership.
• Ability to build financial analyses and business cases.

Responsabilidades

• Drive analysis and presentation material for IT Capital Expenditures in the Technology Portfolio, including consideration for strategic prioritization, developing budgets, forecasting, and variance analysis.
• Create Leadership-level analyses that inform on Technology usage and demand, financial impacts, contractual analysis, while considering potential
• Build financial business cases for technology decisions (e.g. considerations for switching vendors, adding new products or capabilities, etc.)
• Leverage data analytics tools (Power BI, SQL, Excel, etc.) to reach data-driven suggestions that drive strategic discussions and planning efforts with senior leadership.
• Work with finance and procurement to analyze and report on efforts for productivity and automation.
• Conduct and lead special projects and ad hoc requests to support the Technology function.

Conocimientos

Analytical thinking

Communication

Problem solving

Presentation skills

Educación

Advanced degree or equivalent work experience

Herramientas

Power BI

SQL

Excel

Word

PowerPoint

Descripción del empleo

Northern Trust is seeking a Business Consultant to join the Technology Strategic Spend Team to drive IT capital expenditure analyses and strategic planning. The role focuses on budgeting, forecasting, vendor/technology decision analyses, and cross-functional collaboration with Finance and Procurement.

The ideal candidate has 7–10 years of related experience, strong analytics skills, and proficiency with Power BI, SQL, Excel, and PowerPoint to present insights to senior leadership.