- 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.
This Senior Manager role directly supports the Head of Non-Financial Risk Metrics and Reporting for the 2nd Line of Defense. This includes leading the measurement and reporting of non-financial risk which includes cyber, technology, operational execution, operational resiliency, and data risk for senior management, the Board, and regulators. It also is leading the governance and challenge for reporting in the 1st line of defense reporting teams. We are looking for a transformational leader who can help drive change as we move from static metric reporting to automated, on demand reporting for our business leadership to understand the risk in their business and across our global enterprise.
The key responsibilities of the role may include
- Drive a comprehensive risk metrics reporting program to include governance of reporting for 1st and 2nd line of defense. This includes oversight and challenge to quality of metrics, data lineage, change management, and escalation criteria.
- Mature our current risk reporting dashboards to include developing transition plans for metrics to be owned and reported by 1st line of defense. Also requires working closely with metric and data owners to identify areas of opportunity for improvements and driving those changes through the governance processes on a quarterly basis.
- Responsible for assessing Cyber, Technology, Operational Execution, and Operational Resiliency Risk theme appetites and profile reporting on a quarterly basis.
- Develop automated reporting mechanisms to move from PowerPoint and Excel-based reporting to an on-demand dashboard capability for different levels of leadership and risk reporting.
- Build the infrastructure required for optimal extraction, transformation, and loading of data from a wide variety of data sources.
- Ensure accurate and timely reporting through our current dashboard quantitative and qualitative measures for the risk inventory and control objectives for each theme.
- Ensure reporting informs executive leadership and the Board of risks impacting or having the potential to impact our business.
- Responsible for monitoring, testing, reviewing, and challenging 1st line risk metrics including implementation of a feedback loop concerning risk treatment.
- Maintain and enhance operational processes for implementation of the 2nd line of defense reporting program.
- Develop the standard for governing risk reporting, to include working with individuals to determine action plans to remediate identified risks.
- Ability to influence leadership across all lines of defense to drive action.
The successful candidate will benefit from having
- 10+ year's experience in cybersecurity, technology, or operational risk management
- 3+ year's experience in developing Cybersecurity, Technology Risk Management, or Operational Risk Management Dashboards and corresponding metrics program to include Board-level reporting.
- 3+ years of experience in data analysis and metrics development using
- visualization/analytics
- Experience working across lines of defense, particularly as it relates to non-financial risk reporting.
- Experience developing and maturing risk metrics to meet global regulatory requirements, to include data lineage and change management governance.
- Experience working with Microsoft Office products Extensive skills within PowerPoint, Excel, and Word are a must. Experience with PowerBI and Tableau is a plus.
- An understanding of data analytics and statistical processes or principles to aggregate and analyze trends within the metrics.
- Understanding of cybersecurity and or technology risk management principles and familiarity with the NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF), COBIT, ISO 27001/27002 and NIST 800-55
- Understanding of Financial Services industry regulations across US, EMEA, and APAC regions, specifically those set forth in the Federal Financial Institutional Examination Council (FFIEC) handbooks and other country specific regulatory authorities.
- Able to effectively participate in projects and complete multiple tasks simultaneously and efficiently while maintaining a sense of urgency and attention to detail.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills. Able to prepare clearly written, organized documents, reports and communications that demonstrate proper justification and support for any conclusions and assessment results and contain correct grammar, punctuation, and spelling.
- Demonstrated leadership experience both as a people leader but also ability to influence without authority.
- A proven track record successfully managing, mentoring, and motivating large, diverse teams and cultivating high-performing teams members.
- Preferred current CISSP, CISA, CRISC, CISM or similar IT certifications.
- Bachelor's degree in Management Information Systems, Computer Science, Data Science, or a related discipline or equivalent work experience is a plus.
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