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.
Position Overview
The Infrastructure Risk and Control function plays an important role in preserving and enhancing the foundational strength of Northern Trusts control environment. In support of the business operating model this function has global alignment which is centrally managed, along with embedded control teams to ensure universal coordination and consistency in delivery. Candidates for this role need to be risk-minded, detail orientated and effective at driving efforts to conclusion.
As part of the IT Control Metrics Role, part of the Infrastructure Risk and Governance support team, you will participate in activities supporting the regional and global management . You will be responsible for developing operational reporting/metrics and support strategic enterprise wide reporting. A successful candidate will need to develop and maintain consistent and effective controls reporting across all of Infrastructure. You will be responsible to identify and understand the reporting metrics corresponding to all Infrastructure areas, identify trends, discuss trends with the respective Platform/Control owner and help identify solutions. In addition, you will work with global process owners, to proactively manage and execute a control reporting governance to reduce the opportunity for losses, errors, threats and risks.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide stakeholders guidance on identifying key control reporting risks and assessing the design and operating effectiveness of the reporting being performed within the Infrastructure function.
- Help to drive improvement of the Infrastructure reporting on the control environment.
- Support Infrastructure Risk and Governance team with various ad-hoc reporting requirements as needed.
- Establish working relationships and communications with key stakeholders globally.
- Help to develop, enhance and execute risk based assessments on all Infrastructure controls reporting.
- Ensure that meetings are effective and deliverables are issued accurate, complete, and provided timely to stakeholders.
Key Skills
- In depth understanding of the Infrastructure Risk and Control
- Good understanding of Processes supporting Infrastructure Standards and associated procedures.
- Proven experience and skill in developing, maintaining and monitoring Key Performance various Control Indicators (KRI's, KCI's, KPI's)
- Lead development/ Maintenance of Monitoring Dashboard for Infrastructure Controls indicators monitoring
- Familiarity with tools/ languages like PowerBI, Python, VBA etc.
Leadership Skills
- You will need Strong leadership capabilities who can excel in effective decision making, mentoring teams, and delivering results
- Ability to develop long-term strategies and align them with organizational goals. Also, ability to influence and inspire others toward achieving shared goals.
- Capable of analyzing complex situations to make informed decisions.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills and ability to articulate vision and direction clearly to various stakeholders.
- Ability to make critical decisions under pressure by balancing risk and opportunity while considering long-term impact.
- Ability to inspire, motivate, and build cohesive teams with strong collaborative skills to foster partnerships with other teams/ stakeholders.
- Skilled in negotiation and handling difficult conversations.
Qualifications
- Proven Risk professional with 12+ years of Risk and Controls reporting/monitoring experience.
- 3+ years of experience with operational and strategic reporting within a Financial Services Institution.
- Have a good understanding of key infrastructure areas including: Incident Management process, change management process, capacity management process, problem management process etc., and be able to identify trends for the corresponding processes, based on the reporting metrics prepared for these areas.
- Good understanding of financial services regulations, risks and controls.
- Internal Audit or Risk related Certification (CISA, CIA, CRISC, etc.) a plus.
- Experience working at Big4 is a plus.
- Highly motivated, self-starter who deals well with ambiguity and can execute effectively.
- Ability to challenge and influence stakeholders of differing viewpoints to reach 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.
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 [Confidential Information].
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.
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