About Northern Trust:

Northern Trust, a Fortune 500 company, is a globally recognized, award-winning financial institution that has been in continuous operation since 1889.

Northern Trust is proud to provide innovative financial services and guidance to the world's most successful individuals, families, and institutions by remaining true to our enduring principles of service, expertise, and integrity. With more than 130 years of financial experience and over 22,000 partners, we serve the world's most sophisticated clients using leading technology and exceptional service.

We are looking for an analyst to join the Currency Management team in Chicago. The successful candidate will join a dynamic, successful and collaborative team of FX professionals, managing currency portfolios and delivering solutions to Northern Trust clients.

You will be part of a global team, who manage passive currency hedges for a diverse client base. This involves trade generation, verification, execution of trades as well as associated portfolio performance measurement.

The analyst will support their senior partners and other team members in all aspects of the day to day duties of the currency management business with the dual goals of minimizing operational risk and delivering on currency hedging objectives for our clients. As you gain experience, you will take responsibility for individual accounts and have increased client interaction.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Assist in the daily management of clients' currency hedging portfolios
• Monitor and analyze portfolio performance
• Take initiative to drive the improvement of internal processes working together with our global teams to identify and develop efficiencies
• Support the client servicing efforts with preparation of client presentation materials and reporting packages

Knowledge and Skills

• Highly analytical mindset
• Exhibit strong attention to detail producing high quality work with a high degree of accuracy while operating under time sensitive deadlines
• Strong interpersonal skills and excellent communication skills (both written and verbal), you are able to work as part of a team as well as taking initiative to work independently on behalf of the team
• An interest in financial markets with a desire to learn more
• Currency management experience would be an advantage
• Proficiency in Excel
• Coding knowledge would be useful
• Flexible and able to thrive in a fast-paced environment involving intra-day deadlines.

Personal Attributes

• High degree of integrity
• Priority management
• Organized
• Analytical thinker with good attention to detail
• Constructive team worker with positive communication skills

Working with Us:

As a Northern Trust partner, greater achievements await. You will be part of a flexible and collaborative work culture in an organization where financial strength and stability is an asset that emboldens us to explore new ideas.

Movement within the organization is encouraged, senior leaders are accessible, and you can take pride in working for a company committed to assisting the communities we serve! Join a workplace with a greater purpose.

We'd love to learn more about how your interests and experience could be a fit with one of the world's most admired and sustainable companies! Build your career with us and apply today. #MadeForGreater

Reasonable accommodation

Northern Trust is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please email our HR Service Center at [email protected].

We hope you're excited about the role and the opportunity to work with us. We value an inclusive workplace and understand flexibility means different things to different people.

Apply today and talk to us about your flexible working requirements and together we can achieve greater.