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.
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.
As the Data & Technology Governance Lead, you will be part of the GRAO (Global Regulatory Affairs Office), primarily supporting Risk and Control Enhancements (RCE) programs with focus on Data and Technology. You will be working with leaders in Technology, Data, ERM, Compliance, Liquidity, and other corporate functions to deliver at-scale change in our risk, reporting, and resiliency capabilities. In your role, you will support NT’s strategic resiliency agenda through the development of governance, risk, and compliance technology and data providing thought leadership in defining and structuring our data and technology enablement.
You will ensure consistency of output across all programs within RCE to ensure coverage for embedded Data and Technology enablement, oversight and challenge, and you may provide leadership to other team members.
The ideal candidate will have experience with the execution of data and technology projects as well as broad enterprise change initiatives, working effectively with cross-functional teams and facilitating alignment between business, risk, and technology stakeholders across the organization. The ideal candidate would also understand the systems and data required for managing Risk and/or Remediation at a large financial organization, ideally GSIB.
This would be a seasoned multi-disciplinary person with extensive technical and business knowledge and experience with high attention to detail.
Responsibilities:
- Partner with GRAO PMO to monitor execution of the RCE and related plans within Technology and Data, and coordinate closely with other Data & Technology Oversight leads for individual RCE programs to ensure that end-to-end plan dependencies are proactively identified and managed
- Responsible for proactively managing and challenging overall staffing and funding plan across Data and Tech as relates to RCE, in close partnership with the other RCE program groups and central GRAO teams. That includes sustainable governance process for staffing and funding for both RCE and mapped priority issues, ensuring alignment and lineage/challenge to the actual commitments - as relates to all Technology and Data work
- Enable and support processes and content for all Governance and execution bodies related to Technology and Data RCE program, including forums, working groups, and formal Steering Group for RCE Data and Technology.
- Responsible for providing a strategic lens over the activities to look for optimization opportunities and provide horizon reporting and story boards to be used with senior management.
- In partnership with PMO team, ensure there is fit-for-purpose executive reporting and analytics that represent Data and Technology Book of Work for both owned and impacted commitments and dependencies
- Establish and manage processes to engage with all Technology and other RCE-related governance committees/forum/bodies that ensures all RCE and related work is appropriately embedded and represented
- Ensure consistency across all Programs that require Data and Tech support
- Innovative approaches towards delivery
- Periodic “look-ins” with technology and data teams for complex programs
- Continuously ensure that programs have clearly identified roles and responsibilities and have appropriately identified, and are engaging, all relevant NT stakeholders with appropriate accountability
- Perform end-to-end review and challenge of program to confirm quality and adequacy of deliverables against target states
Required
- Experience working as a self-directed contributor as well as director to meet complex business objectives in a highly matrixed environment
- Substantial broad experience in managing large transformation programs with focus on risk management and/or remediation
- Expertise in managing PMO, Financials, Staffing plans and assessments at enterprise scale in a financial company, ideally GSIB
- Understanding of key banking regulations
- Well-developed listening skills
- Articulate and effective communicator
- High attention to detail
- Strong interpersonal skills, and proficient with complex stakeholder management with senior stakeholders
- Ability to influence positive outcome without direct functional control
- “No surprise: approach in communicating issues and requests
- Strong Leadership skills with proven track record of delivering positive and sustainable change
- Knowledge of general risk, compliance and governance concepts and methods such as policy management, risk assessments, control testing etc.
- Understanding of data and technology needs to support regulatory expectations
- Remediation with focus on Technology and Data in a GSIB
- Bachelor's and/or master's degree in business, operations, data, or technology
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
Base Pay Salary Range:
$150,000 - $250,000
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.
