Senior Consultant, Business Analysis

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.

Role/Department:

The Senior Consultant, Business Analysis is responsible for independently delivering Business Analysis activities for defined projects or workstreams.

The initial assignment will support a major strategic programme involving artificial intelligence, automation and emerging technologies. The role will work with business, product, operations, technology and risk stakeholders to assess opportunities, define requirements and support solutions through testing and implementation.

This is a generalist Business Analysis position. The successful candidate may also support strategic, regulatory, product, data, digital and operational-change initiatives as business priorities evolve.

The key responsibilities of the role include:

The successful candidate will benefit from having:

• Analyse business problems, opportunities and expected outcomes.
• Conduct feasibility, process and impact assessments.
• Assess and document potential AI, automation and technology-enabled use cases.
• Plan and facilitate requirements workshops and stakeholder interviews.
• Elicit, document and validate:
  • business and functional requirements;
  • epics and user stories;
  • acceptance criteria;
  • process and data requirements;
  • business rules and controls;
  • assumptions, risks and dependencies.

• Translate business needs into clear, structured and testable requirements.
• Define expected solution outcomes, human-review points and exception processes.
• Work with business and technology teams to support solution design.
• Identify process, data, technology, operational and control impacts.
• Contribute to target operating models, including processes, roles, responsibilities and hand-offs.
• Support test-scenario development, business testing and defect analysis.
• Maintain traceability from business need through requirements, testing and implementation.
• Support pilot planning, implementation readiness, adoption and value measurement.
• Manage assigned Business Analysis deliverables with limited supervision.
• Escalate unresolved requirements, risks, dependencies and decisions.
• Apply established Business Analysis standards, methods and templates.
• Use approved digital and AI-enabled tools to improve analysis quality and efficiency, with appropriate validation and human review.

Scope and Accountability

• Independently owns Business Analysis deliverables for a defined project or workstream.
• Works within an agreed project scope and Business Analysis approach.
• Manages medium-to-high-complexity requirements and stakeholder groups.
• Makes recommendations within the assigned area of responsibility.
• Accountable for the quality, completeness and timeliness of own deliverables.
• Collaborates with other Business Analysts but does not ordinarily direct or quality-review their work.
• Escalates material cross-workstream issues or strategic decisions.
• Has no formal people-management or wider Business Analysis functional responsibility.

Skills/Qualifications:

• Ability to convert ambiguous needs into clear, testable requirements.
• Working knowledge of feasibility analysis, testing and operational readiness.
• Strong stakeholder-engagement, facilitation and communication skills.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and deliverables.
• Understanding of Agile, Waterfall or hybrid delivery methods.
• Experience in financial services or another regulated industry is desirable.
• Exposure to artificial intelligence, automation, data or digital products is desirable.
• Specialist AI-development experience is not required.
• Business Analysis, Agile or project-delivery qualification is advantageous.
• Experience using requirements-management, process-modelling or delivery-management tools is advantageous.

Work Authorization

Applicants must have the right to work in Ireland at the time of application and for the duration of employment.

Please note that Northern Trust is unable to provide employment permit sponsorship for this role. This includes Critical Skills Employment Permits, General Employment Permits, Intra-Company Transfer Employment Permits, Stamp 1G permissions, and other employment permits under Irish immigration frameworks.

Working with Us

As a Northern Trust partner, you will be part of a flexible and collaborative work culture, which has a strong history of financial strength and stability. Movement within the organization is encouraged, senior leaders are accessible, and you can take pride in working for a company committed to an inclusive workplace and assisting the communities we serve.

Philanthropy is deeply rooted in Northern Trust’s history and is an essential element of our culture. Employees around the world give their time and talent to work for the greater good of their communities.

Reasonable Accommodation

Northern Trust is committed to working with and providing adjustments to individuals with health conditions and disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please email our HR Service Center at [email protected], or alternatively you can discuss your individual requirements with the recruiter you are working with.