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.

Overall GRC technology ownership and accountability across development and support for Non-Financial Risk initiatives.  Working closely across technology organization and NFR business partners to enhance, implement, and transform NorthernTrust’s risk management capabilities.  This role is expected to provide leadership on technology, people, and process within NFR domain.  Key strategic programs include risk transformation program with ServiceNow, and various transformation within existing GRC toolsets (Archer, Fusion, etc.).  Day to day, this role is expected to engage with NFR business team and leadership to delivery across initiatives, engaged to align on outcomes/changes and other delivery factors to ensure aligned success, provide technical oversight and guidance on design and implementation, and provide team level management (inclusive of staffing decisions). 

Qualifications (must haves):
• Senior stakeholder engagement experience, including with heads of various Non-Financial Risk functions.

• Excellent verbal and written communication, ensuring informed and aligned decisions across technology and business stakeholder groups.

• Expertise technology and business architectures for GRC implementations and BAU. 

• Global management experience working with business partners across jurisdictions and technology centers of excellence.

• Expertise in vendor management and partnership across delivery and support.

• Hands-on experience creating roadmap aligned with business and technology strategy for NFR.

• Hands-on team management experience, building a team and maturing a team.

• Hands-on management of KPIs and KRIs within technology

• Focused on commitments to timeline, cost, and result across all initiatives by the team.

• Hands-on development experience and not afraid to rollup the sleeve.  Must be from development pedigree.

• Experience with configuration and customization (coding) based GRC development on Service Now (prefer also Archer and/or Fusion).
• Understands the various GRC functional capabilities – familiarity of Service Now is a must.  Archer / Fusion is highly preferred.
• >7 years of ServiceNow IRM experience within Financial Services industry.
• A College or University degree in Computer Science and/or relevant work experience is required.
• Must be from a technical background with hands-on technical development experience.
• >7 years in GRC development space
• Report on issues and root causes, and manage remediation and sustainability of the remediation.

• Work with offshore team to coordinate issue finding, escalations, resolution implementation, etc.

• Must have Risk Management transformation program experience

Nice to have:
• Big 4 Consulting 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.