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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.

Role/ Department:

FX Currency Management - Portfolio Analyst

Northern Trust's Currency Management team provides clients with currency hedging protection and volatility reduction for the FX exposures generated by their foreign assets. Join an established global team where you will be responsible for managing risk on behalf of our clients across a range of strategies and investment mandates. This will require learning the nature of our solutions and understanding how to implement them to achieve optimal outcomes. You will become a trusted point of contact and expertise for both internal and external stakeholders, as well as working collaboratively with supporting teams and the trading desks. This role would suit a candidate with a STEM background and interest/experience in financial markets, or a candidate with a background in banking and finance with good coding skills as these will be necessary.

The key responsibilities of the role include:

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. You will also be responsible for using your technical skills to undertake projects that computationally streamline our processes.

• Assist in the daily management of clients' currency hedging portfolios
• Monitor and analyse 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

Skills/ Qualifications:

The successful candidate will benefit from having:

• 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
• Good level of coding knowledge and experience with implementing technical solutions, Python skills would be relevant for the role
• An interest in financial markets with a desire to learn more, FX experience would be helpful
• Flexible and able to thrive in a fast-paced environment involving intra-day deadlines.
• High degree of integrity
• Organized with strong priority management

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 MyHRHelp@ntrs.com .

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.