Jobs at Northern Trust

Creates and delivers motion graphics, animation, visual effects, video, and branded visual storytelling across campaigns, social, digital, executive, and event channels. Develops storyboards, style frames, templates, motion systems, and reusable assets while maintaining brand, accessibility, legal, and technical standards. Collaborates with creative and marketing teams, manages complex assignments, and supports scalable, AI-enabled production workflows.

Leads quality engineering and test automation for payments, messaging, liquidity, and banking systems. Responsibilities include developing automation frameworks for UI, APIs, and microservices; implementing CI/CD pipelines; establishing enterprise testing strategies; conducting proof-of-concepts; resolving defects; improving automation metrics and processes; and mentoring SDETs. The role requires extensive quality engineering, automation, technical leadership, financial-services domain knowledge, and collaboration with global technical and business teams.

Drive distribution of NTAM solutions through Wealth Client Group intermediaries by creating targeted account plans, coordinating with product and marketing teams, designing coverage models, identifying high-probability prospects, deepening client relationships, and traveling domestically to client offices (20–40% travel).

Lead global content strategy and delivery for Wealth Management sales enablement. Create scalable, compliant sales and proposal content, drive adoption through training and technology, manage RFP/proposal teams, partner across Sales, Investments, Compliance and Marketing, and measure content impact using KPIs and AI-enabled tools to improve pipeline conversion and response quality.

Maintains complex wealth management client relationships across fiduciary, investment management, estate settlement, guardianship, and custody accounts. Coordinates account administration, service requests, transactions, documentation, compliance processes, action plans, and issue resolution. Supports advisors with client meetings, presentations, business development, and account reviews. Ensures systems and fee information remain accurate, identifies process improvements, and mentors junior employees while overseeing daily operational activities.

Manages OTC and FX derivatives trade operations, including confirmations, settlements, resets, corporate actions, discrepancy resolution, documentation, and regulatory processes. Serves as a product subject-matter expert, escalation point, project lead, and liaison among clients, counterparties, trading desks, control groups, and technology teams. Supports trade-management system enhancements, staff training, strategic initiatives, and accurate risk-controlled processing in a fast-paced environment.

Leads Northern Trust’s national Sports & Entertainment wealth management franchise. Develops strategy, operating model, ecosystem partnerships, client pipeline, and advisory revenue while coordinating advisors and specialists. Builds relationships with athletes, entertainers, agents, team owners, executives, family offices, and professional advisors. Establishes governance, controls, reporting, and risk standards, advises senior leadership, and connects the franchise to ultra-high-net-worth offerings.

Performs internal audits across departments by assessing risks, controls, business processes, and operating practices. Develops audit test steps, documents findings, evaluates control effectiveness, identifies weaknesses, and recommends improvements. Reviews regulatory changes, supports special projects, communicates audit results to business units, and prepares professional summaries and workpapers. The role requires analytical, organizational, report-writing, and financial-services auditing knowledge.

Prepare and maintain fund accounting records, assist with investment fund NAV calculations, reconcile cash and securities accounts, resolve accounting discrepancies, process investment transactions, and follow internal controls. The role also supports process improvements and requires strong analytical, communication, teamwork, and attention-to-detail skills.

Consults with institutional trust and custody clients to assess requirements and implement asset servicing, custody, and trust products. Coordinates onboarding, implementation plans, service setup, documentation, training, and stakeholder communication. Manages risks, resolves implementation challenges, and ensures successful client outcomes while partnering with sales, relationship management, client service, and operational teams.

Administers complex hedge fund portfolios through daily transaction and position reconciliations across equities, futures, fixed income, and OTC products. Investigates and resolves cash and security breaks, performs reconciliation controls, coordinates with internal teams and clients, manages SLA-related inquiries, and supports process-improvement projects. The role also collaborates with technology teams to improve scalability, controls, and efficiency while maintaining data integrity across geographically distributed teams.

Leads a wealth management investment compliance team, overseeing regulatory compliance, fiduciary obligations, conflicts of interest, risk assessments, policies, procedures, training, and business advisory support. Manages staff performance and development, supports investment committees, implements the Corporate Compliance Program, advises stakeholders on applicable regulations, and escalates compliance risks. Partners with Corporate Compliance and contributes to strategic planning and special projects.

Supports Wealth Client Group leadership by translating growth objectives into strategic priorities, business plans, resource decisions, investment cases, and execution milestones. Evaluates staffing, territories, sales effectiveness, budgets, market trends, and business performance to identify growth opportunities. Develops recommendations, coordinates cross-functional stakeholders, and provides leadership updates on progress, risks, trade-offs, and expected business value.

Supports institutional client relationships for Northern Trust Asset Management by partnering with Relationship Managers, handling client inquiries, coordinating account maintenance and cross-functional resolution, preparing meeting materials, and facilitating due diligence, RFPs, questionnaires, and information requests. The role also supports business development, identifies growth opportunities, maintains client documentation, and requires Series 7 and 63 licenses.

Supports Relationship Managers serving institutional investment clients by handling inquiries, coordinating internal teams, tracking deliverables, managing account maintenance and onboarding activities, preparing client meeting materials, and documenting relationship developments. Requires financial markets knowledge, strong communication and problem-solving skills, Microsoft Office and CRM proficiency, plus Series 7 and 63 licenses within 90 days.

Supports enterprise internal communications by administering communication platforms, managing email distributions, publishing content, maintaining intranet and digital signage channels, creating visual assets, training users, and troubleshooting technology. Produces newsletters, maintains templates and content repositories, analyzes engagement metrics, and identifies opportunities to improve communication processes and channel effectiveness. Collaborates with Corporate Communications, Technology, Human Resources, Workplace Services, and business stakeholders on strategic communications initiatives.

Supports private credit fund administration and middle-office clients by processing syndicated bank loan trades, lifecycle events, reconciliations, and position maintenance. Coordinates with clients, counterparties, and agents through ClearPar, verifies trading activity, monitors bank debt positions for accurate P&L reporting, and maintains professional internal and external relationships. The role requires accuracy, process discipline, client focus, communication skills, and proficiency with Excel and Microsoft Office.

Leads development and architectural evolution of an AI-powered code security scanner. Responsibilities include building user-facing dashboards and workflows, implementing secure authentication, extending backend scanning and orchestration services, integrating LLM-based security analysis, automating vulnerability validation and reporting, enhancing scalability, and mentoring junior engineers.

Develop and enhance an AI-powered code security scanner platform. Responsibilities include building React dashboards and workflows, developing Python backend and orchestration services, integrating LLM-based security analysis, implementing authentication and authorization, automating vulnerability detection and verification, and improving platform scalability, security, and quality.

Manages complex HNW and UHNW wealth management relationships, providing fiduciary, financial, estate planning, investment, and advisory services. Leads client conversations, resolves issues, identifies relationship and business development opportunities, coordinates with professional advisors, manages fiduciary risk, and supports complex initiatives. Mentors colleagues and provides leadership on fiduciary projects and committees.