- SALARY:NONE
- Chicago, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
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.
The Head of Due Diligence and Issues Management will report to the Head of TPMO and will be liaising with 1st Line of Defense for third party risk. Primarily this individual will work closely with the Head of TPMO to ensure timely and effective due diligence of Third Party engagements and robust issues management and risk treatment of open issues. This individual will be an expert in Third Party Risk Management and would be well versed in program execution related to the entire lifecycle of third-party engagements. This role interacts with the Head of Program Execution, business partners, vendors, and outsourced service providers to ensure timely assessments and issues management.
Responsibilities
- Accountable for overall Due Diligence of third parties across all risk domains, including quality check for all due diligence assessments completed by the managed service provider (MSP)
- Responsible for the workload management, oversight, tracking and performance review of the MSP
- Responsible for challenging due diligence residual risk ratings and findings proposed by the MSP
- Responsible for overseeing the periodic review of all vendors for financial, reputational, cyber, and regulatory compliance risks using automated scanning tools and vendor databases
- Responsible for developing and maintaining criteria for residual risk and issue ratings and submitting for periodic review
- Responsible for tracking all open due diligence issues through their life cycle
- Responsible for adding and dispositioning issues in a timely manner, including resolving escalations (including vendor managers, ECVMs) from the due diligence service provider
- Responsible for periodic interaction with Business partners to update status related to due diligence and open issues for their engagements or to escalate issues on a risk basis.
- Responsible for all reporting related to due diligence and issues management is complete and accurate
- Responsible for collaborating with the Head of Program Execution, 2nd Line of Defense, and Risk Domain Subject Matter Experts to periodically review domain questionnaires, control standards and residual risk rating and issue rating criteria
- Responsible for developing and reviewing desk procedures related to due diligence and issues management
- Must have a strong analytical and communication skills to be impactful with external regulators and partners
- Strong business acumen with proven ability to interact with all levels of the organization
- Highly flexible and adaptable to change
- An undergraduate or graduate degree in Accounting, Finance or Risk and/or another appropriate academic major is highly preferred.
- 5+ years of experience in particular business/industry experience to meet special needs of vendor manager/ 3rdparty oversight or as a Consultant/ Senior Consultant with a public accounting firm
- Knowledge of ERM/GRC concepts and third-party risk management topics including information security data privacy leading security standards (ISO27001, NIST) certification reports (SOC 1, SOC 2) or control frameworks (COSO, ISO, COBIT, OCEG, etc.)
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