Liquidity Stress Testing and Reporting Senior Consultant - Chicago, United States - Northern Trust

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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.


    The Liquidity Stress Testing and Reporting Senior Consultant will be responsible for helping drive the development of liquidity risk measurement framework components across the continuum, business as usual to resolution.

    The successful candidate will be a member of the Liquidity Stress Testing team and help lead the development and maintenance of the enterprise liquidity stress testing framework and cash flow projections.


    Ideally, the prospective candidate will have experience with Liquidity Stress Testing production and calibrating assumption based on regulatory and internally required scenarios.

    Strong understanding of liquidity risk management, liquidity risk framework, risk identification, risk measurement approaches and leader with balance sheet management experience primarily in the areas of Liquidity Risk Management.

    The prospective candidate should have a working knowledge of the three lines of defense and ideally experience working closely with second line risk management and third line internal audit groups.

    Duties


    • Help drive the development and maintenance of stress testing scenarios and methodologies that cover idiosyncratic, market, combined risk, and operational risk events. Partner with Balance Sheet Modelling team, business line subject matter experts and risk management to ensure sound assumptions are developed that covers all products and external market considerations for business as usual to resolution.
    • Work with global liquidity and resolution planning in the development of liquidity triggers that signal varying degrees of stress.
    • Own the production of daily cash flow projections to support regulatory requirements. Aim for continuous improvement with respect to business unit and Treasury forecasting to increase accuracy of cash flow projections through back testing and variance analysis.
    • Support the broader resolution planning effort by leading the build out of the liquidity components of the resolution plans. Provide in-depth knowledge and perspective on how key liquidity risk drivers would behave across the continuum, business as usual to resolution. Have working knowledge of critical operations, including FMU and CSD operations and potential liquidity impacts.
    • Communicate financial issues in a clear and concise manner to senior management, internal oversight groups, and external regulators. Lead the development of robust documentation to support major assumptions, models used in liquidity stress testing, resolution and cash flow projections.
    • Ensure compliance with global regulatory requirements and expectations that govern liquidity risk, resolution planning, stress testing, and modeling practices.
    • Develop and deploy the enterprise liquidity Risk and Intraday liquidity frameworks.
    • Coordinate balance sheet execution strategies with the Funding and Portfolio Management Teams.
    • Manage internal and external qualitative risk measures, stress testing, LCR, NSFR, limit and threshold framework.
    • Develop, measure, and report legal entity liquidity risk components to the senior management, executive committees and supervisors.
    • Develop and drive strategic liquidity analysis for the resolution plan.
    • Lead coordination of intraday activities across the enterprise.
    • Development and maintenance of the enterprise's contingency funding plan.
    • Ensure consistent compliance with global liquidity supervisory regulations.
    • Lead cross-functional and regional efforts to ensure collateral is effectively managed and optimized.
    Qualifications


    • 5-10 year's work prior liquidity risk management experience working in a financial institution, regulatory agency, consulting firm, or related field.
    • A college or university degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics, Statistics, Math, Engineering or other quantitative field.
    • Familiarity with Asset Liability Management, Liquidity Risk Management, and Funds Transfer Pricing.
    • Proficient in Microsoft Excel and PowerBI.
    • Strong analytical and quantitative skills, critical thinking, investigative problem-solving and decision-making talents.
    • Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to lead the development of senior management level presentations.
    • Requires in-depth conceptual and practical knowledge in own job discipline and basic knowledge of related.
    * job disciplines.

    • Applies best practices and how own area integrates with others.
    • Is aware of the competition and the factors that differentiate them in the market.
    • Explains difficult or sensitive information; works to build consensus.

    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.

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    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

    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.