Investment Stewardship Analyst

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.

Job Description

A as an Investment Stewardship Analyst, you will be responsible for supporting and executing our evolving active ownership activities. The successful candidate for this role will demonstrate a strong understanding of key governance trends and financially material sustainability topics, applicable to investment outcomes across global markets, with a primary focus on issuers in Emerging Markets. The candidate will be expected to contribute to sector and industry specific research and engagement in collaboration with other partners in the broader investment practice. The candidate should demonstrate an understanding of proxy voting and engagement cycles and be willing to attend industry events to gain insights into best practices, which can contribute to their work within the Stewardship Team.

DUTIES :

Engagement and Voting

• Lead and manage engagement with companies on a variety of topics focused on enterprise value creation, corporate governance and financially material sustainability factors that impact client investment outcomes.
• Ahead of any engagement conduct thorough company specific research, to identity and set objectives for the topics relevant to the specific company.
• Monitoring progress towards engagement milestones / outcomes, maintaining accurate records.
• Collaborate with internal teams to produce timely research and marketing materials on topics related to corporate governance and corporate sustainability.
• Contribute to advancing the integration of our stewardship program and our investment decision-making processes, and increasing collaboration with fundamental research analysts, to add their insights to our engagements and proxy voting decisions.
• Act as a point of contact for firms wishing to meet on corporate governance, corporate sustainability, and voting related issues.
• Analyse shareholder meeting agendas and related materials to ensure votes are submitted timeously and accurately in accordance with NTAM's proxy voting guidelines.
• Support the firm's Proxy Committee by providing research and recommendations on industry trends and contribute to the ongoing refinement of NTAM's proxy voting guidelines.
• Gain an understanding of investment and shareholder issues gathered through research and contact with a variety of market participants to support position papers and contribute to public policy consultations.

Clients

Internal / External Partnering

KNOWLEDGE / SKILLS :

EXPERIENCE :

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.

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