Program Management, Business Solutions Consultant, IPS

Major Duties

• Monitor capital-funded initiatives and track performance against approved budgets and forecasts.
• Analyze monthly spend trends and identify forecast variances, overruns, underutilization, and potential budget risks.
• Aid with capital reporting and investment reviews for management.
• Review and validate developer time reporting and capital allocations for accuracy and completeness.
• Analyze development effort tracking to ensure hours are appropriately aligned to approved initiatives and funding sources.
• Investigate discrepancies between planned capacity, reported effort, and actual project delivery progress.
• Support controls and governance processes related to capitalization policies and development time reporting.
• Partner with delivery teams, engineering managers, agile leaders, and product teams to improve reporting accuracy and accountability.
• Identify trends and opportunities to improve utilization reporting and resource planning.

Data Analysis & Reporting

• Develop reporting and dashboards using Power BI, Excel, Azure DevOps, and related tools.
• Analyze development throughput, resource capacity, budget utilization, and project delivery metrics.
• Identify trends, anomalies, and opportunities for operational improvement.
• Support creation of executive presentations and management reporting materials.

Required Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Strong analytical and financial acumen.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills, including pivots, lookups, forecasting, and data analysis.
• Experience analyzing budgets, forecasts, resource allocations, or operational metrics.
• Ability to synthesize large datasets into meaningful business insights.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Excellent organizational and stakeholder management capabilities.

Preferred Experience

• With capital planning, capital accounting, or technology investment governance.
• Experience using Azure DevOps, Jira, or similar delivery management tools.
• Understanding of software development lifecycle (SDLC) and Agile delivery practices.
• Financial services, asset servicing, middle office, hedge fund administration, or technology delivery experience.

Salary Range

$74,200 - 126,200 USD

Salary range is a good faith estimate of base pay. Northern Trust provides a comprehensive benefits package including retirement benefits (401k and pension), health and welfare benefits (medical, dental, vision, spending accounts and disability), paid time off, parental and caregiver leave, life & accident insurance, and other voluntary and well-being benefits. Northern Trust also provides a discretionary bonus program that may include an equity component.