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.

Role/Department

The First Line of Defense - Operational Resilience Senior Consultant will support the Operational Resilience Program and be responsible for the oversight, reporting, and execution of related initiatives across the Enterprise. The successful candidate will work with resilience team leads and wider business units on the delivery of key projects to enhance Northern Trust’s Risk and Control frameworks and to provide guidance to other stakeholders.

The key responsibility of the role:

Collaborate with business and technology stakeholders to identify, prioritize, and align Important Business Service capabilities based on both their impact and strategic importance

Key lead in business dependency oversight, as well as the monitoring of risks and vulnerabilities across all services. This will include input into reporting for internal risk committees and external supervisory bodies, investigation into issues / areas of potential risk, and the tracking of any required remediating actions

Support the review and oversight of compliance to Operational Risk Policies and Standards

Lead project deliverables with manageable risks and resource requirements

Act as a support for colleagues with less experience

Monitor and analyze impact of internal and external change on the efficacy of resiliency planning; educate responsible parties on additional risk introduced to related processes and the relevant actions to be taken

Skills/ Experience

The successful candidate will benefit from having;

Strong knowledge of concepts relating to operational resiliency, business continuity management, and disaster recovery, as well as related governance mechanisms, including corporate risk policies and standards

Previous related experience in the practical application of the above concepts

Strong understanding of risk management practices and how they apply in Financial Services organizations, including the impact of regulation as it relates to operational resiliency

Thorough understanding and knowledge of resiliency regulations, jurisdictional requirements and guidelines for Financial Services organizations

Ability to analyze large volumes of data, and organize logically to produce actionable insights

Previous experience in working on complex, multi-year change programs

Strong cross-functional collaboration and communication skills, demonstrated by the ability to achieve measurable outcomes

Experience of working in rapidly changing and ambiguous environments, in addition to being comfortable working autonomously.

Familiarity with Intelligent Automation tools such as Power BI and Power Automate

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.