Specialist, Chief Control Office

About Northern Trust

As a global leader in innovative wealth management, asset servicing, asset management and banking services, Northern Trust (Nasdaq: NTRS) is proud to guide the world’s most successful individuals, families, corporations and institutions.

Since 1889, we have aligned our efforts with our three guiding Principles That Endure: Service, Expertise, and Integrity. Together, they reflect the three cornerstones of business conduct which we strive to instill in our employees, whom we call partners, and to provide to our clients and the communities we serve worldwide.

With more than 135 years of financial experience and over 24,000 partners, we serve the world’s most sophisticated clients using leading technology and exceptional service.

Summary

Responsible for analyzing and translating strategic plans/needs and industry trends to map out how a business should function and determine capability gaps. Develop and expand capability strategy by internal development of the existing platform or by supporting the sales process with clients in developing/designing operating models and functional/client architecture and through new clients. Provide guidance around business analysis to support the business strategy using modeling methods. Partner with IT in developing an IT framework/product.

Provide vision to project teams, resolving cross domain functional issues and aligning project work to the vision/functional designs provided. This role is client-facing (works with external asset management companies) and internally focused (works with technology partners and operational areas), with the objective of engaging with clients to accurately articulate business requirements and understand and solve business problems in order to provide robust and integrated solutions.

Working Model: Hybrid

We have a balanced hybrid working model to ensure you get the flexibility you need, and the successful candidate will spend their time between working in the office and working from home.

Major Duties :

1. Seasoned multi-disciplinary expert with extensive technical and / or business knowledge and functional expertise
2. Focus of role is on execution of strategic direction of business function activities
3. Carries out complex initiatives involving multiple disciplines and/or ambiguous issues
4. Displays a balanced, cross-functional perspective, liaising with the business to improve efficiency, effectiveness and productivity

5. Define standard set of tactical and strategic CCO reports needed and align stakeholders on data sources and data maps to be used for board, scorecard, and other metrics within the 1LOD and 2LOD. This includes creation and maintenance of the data map, establishing data dictionary, and aligning standards across 1LOD and 2LOD

6. Understand the overall health of the internal risk and control environment, identify trends, weaknesses, and determination of required mitigation actions.

7. Experience in reviewing and interpreting CCO deliverables in scope of overall company objectives and priorities, providing recommendations, and taking initiative on projects or team tasks, while managing multiple priorities effectively and driving outcomes independently

8. Advancing proactive risk management culture transformation within the organization

9. Demonstrated ability to present to senior audience

Knowledge :

• In-depth understanding of Risk and Control framework, Business and Data modeling, and Business analysis

• Experience with reporting solutions for the Risk and Control management similar to Qlik Sense, IBM Open Pages, Service Now, Tableau

• Experience designing solutions in PowerBI, proficient in Excel

• Excellent oral and written communication skills are required

• In-depth Functional / Industry Knowledge is required

• Highly flexible and adaptable to change

• Leadership and organizational skills are required to determine the Business Unit's goals, resources needed, and to assess and develop the skills of staff.

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• #LI-Hybrid

Experience :

• Seasoned expert with extensive technical and business knowledge and functional expertise that has been developed over 15+ years and/or equivalent experience.

• Consulting background is a plus

Salary Range:

$114,700 - 194,900 USD

Salary range is a good faith estimate of base pay. Northern Trust provides a comprehensive benefits package including retirement benefits (401k and pension), health and welfare benefits (medical, dental, vision, spending accounts and disability), paid time off, parental and caregiver leave, life & accident insurance, and other voluntary and well-being benefits. Northern Trust also provides a discretionary bonus program that may include an equity component.

Work Authorization

Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S. without the need for employment-based visa sponsorship now or in the future. Northern Trust will not sponsor applicants for U.S. work visa status for this opportunity (no sponsorship is available for H-1B, L-1, TN, O-1, E-3, H-1B1, F-1, J-1, OPT, CPT or any other employment-based visa).

Working with Us

As a Northern Trust partner, you will be part of a flexible and collaborative work culture, which has a strong history of financial strength and stability. Movement within the organization is encouraged, senior leaders are accessible, and you can take pride in working for a company committed to an inclusive workplace and assisting the communities we serve.

Philanthropy is deeply rooted in Northern Trust’s history and is an essential element of our culture. Employees around the world give their time and talent to work for the greater good of their communities.

Reasonable Accommodation

Northern Trust is committed to working with and providing adjustments to individuals with health conditions and disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please email our HR Service Center at MyHRHelp@ntrs.com, or alternatively you can discuss your individual requirements with the recruiter you are working with.