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.
Middle Office Program Management Associate Specialist
Role Summary
The Middle Office Program Management Associate Specialist supports the execution of strategic initiatives across Middle Office functions, partnering closely with business, product, technology, testing, and shared-service teams. The role combines product and program management disciplines, with responsibility for translating business needs into development requirements, managing development workstreams and backlogs, coordinating testing and implementation, and providing transparent reporting on delivery progress, risks, dependencies, and financial performance.
The successful candidate will bring strong business and technical knowledge, demonstrate effective cross-functional leadership, and be comfortable managing multiple priorities in a dynamic environment. This role requires an individual who can connect business objectives with technology execution while driving accountability, efficiency, and continuous improvement.
Major Duties
Act as product manager within a development workstream, including defining scope, documenting business and development requirements, partnering with development teams on solution design, and facilitating backlog prioritization and decision-making with business partners.
Serve as a key point of contact between business partners, IT development teams, testing teams, and shared-service functions, building strong partnerships and ensuring alignment across stakeholders.
Translate business needs into clear, actionable development requirements, supporting development teams throughout design, build, testing, and implementation. Ensure development activities and program deliverables remain aligned with business objectives
Coordinate initiative implementation with business partners, including readiness activities, issue resolution, communication, and post-implementation follow-up.
Provide regular and timely written and verbal communications to stakeholders through status reports, meeting notes, project plans and charts, decision tracking, and issue, risk, dependency, and action-item logs.
Identify and escalate resource constraints, delivery dependencies, operational risks, and execution challenges to senior management, accompanied by recommended mitigation strategies and resolution paths.
Partner with others within the program management team members to monitor capital budgets, actual spend, forecasts, and financial outlook, supporting accurate and timely financial reporting.
Facilitate working-group meetings, development discussions, governance forums, and lessons-learned sessions, promoting open communication, accountability, and transparency into development status and delivery outcomes.
Act as a change agent, identifying opportunities for process improvement, automation, standardization, and productivity transformation.
Manage multiple workstreams, priorities, and deliverables simultaneously while maintaining a high level of accuracy, organization, and attention to detail.
Knowledge and Skills
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to communicate effectively with business, technology, and senior stakeholders.
Strong product, project, or program management capabilities…