Sr Associate, Brokerage Ops

Responsibilities

• Provide end-to-end brokerage operations support from trade execution and book-out through allocation, confirmation, settlement, and reconciliation.
• Manage the account opening process in partnership with Client Integration, Compliance, Sales Trading, and Operations teams to ensure timely and accurate completion of required steps.
• Maintain client static data, including confirmation setup, commission rates across markets, sub-account configuration, booking preferences, and client settlement instructions.
• Review documentation and account activity for accuracy, completeness, and compliance with internal procedures and applicable regulatory expectations.
• Book out and allocate equity, fixed income and option transactions to the appropriate client accounts, ensuring timely confirmation through Central Trade Manager or manual confirmation workflows.
• Monitor market-side and client-side trade matching and settlement, identify exceptions, resolve mismatches, and work with clients, execution brokers, and internal teams to support high settlement performance.
• Apply commercial awareness to settlement risk, including high-value trades, sensitive clients, debit-interest exposure, and time-critical market requirements.
• Support daily reconciliation and position management to ensure agency brokerage accounts are flat of position and profit/loss at end of day, with any error positions documented and handled in accordance with regulatory and internal control requirements.
• Analyze complex issues using multiple sources of information, identify practical solutions, and escalate matters appropriately when risk, client impact, or business impact is identified.
• Contribute to process improvement, operational efficiency, and control enhancements across the team, including support for large, complex, or cross-functional projects.
• Partner with colleagues across related teams to support service delivery, strengthen team dynamics, and promote consistent execution of brokerage operations standards.

Pay

Salary range: $67,500 - $111,500 USD (good faith estimate of base pay).

Benefits

• 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
• Other voluntary and well-being benefits
• Discretionary bonus program that may include an equity component

Requirements

• Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S. without the need for employment-based visa sponsorship now or in the future.
• Northern Trust will not sponsor applicants for U.S. work visa status for this opportunity (no sponsorship is available for H-1B, L-1, TN, O-1, E-3, H-1B1, F-1, J-1, OPT, CPT or any other employment-based visa).