- 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 Global Regulatory Affairs Office (GRAO) is responsible for overseeing the enhancement of our risk management and controls, remediation of regulatory and audit findings and the administration of regulatory affairs, including establishing a centralized and sustainable connection point for global regulatory communications.
The Regulatory Reporting Manager reports to the Global Head of Regulatory Program Management and leads periodic regulatory reporting efforts for any impacted matters under the leadership of the GRAO. The primary responsibilities include leading data aggregation, review, and organization across the GRAO portfolio developing responses to regulatory reporting requests including narrative drafting and finalization and engaging with key stakeholders to ensure accurate and timely reporting. The role holder will require the ability to lead experienced professionals who are accountable for delivery of specific objectives in support of the program. The Regulatory Reporting Manager must be able to engage with stakeholders across a wide variety of functions, as well as executive and board-level engagement with confidence and must be able to perform under pressure at times to handle a wide variety of activities and confidential matters with discretion and attention to detail.
The key responsibilities of the role include
- Responsible for leading the Regulatory Reporting team accountable for delivering key aspects of one or more significant programs
- Responsible for coordinating across internal and third-party resources to build repeatable, reliable processes and tools to support periodic reporting objectives
- Ingest, analyze and draft reports in support of meeting internal and regulatory objectives
- Write clear, concise summaries of work completed, informed by an understanding of risk and control objectives and programs
- Responsible for identification, solution and resolution of issues, risks and decisions needed to drive reporting activities forward
- Timely escalate and relentlessly pursue resolution of any roadblocks with a clear, end-to-end ownership mindset
- Manage stakeholder expectations, including negotiation, education and awareness of key program efforts
- Lead multiple high priority work efforts simultaneously, providing support to direct reports to deliver on planned achievements
- Review and oversee reporting capability building and evolution
The successful candidate will benefit from having
- ACollege or University degree and relevant reporting and/or governance leadership experience with industry knowledge is required (financial risk, non-financial risk, regulatory and/or compliance)
- At least three years' experience leading regulatory reporting, compliance or legal programs at a large financial institution, with proven experience drafting and working with stakeholders to complete periodic reporting
- Experienced senior stakeholder involvement, including executive leadership and/or Board engagement experience
- Experience managing staff to support regulatory and/or governance reporting requirements
- Technical skills Outlook, Teams, Microsoft Office 365 suite
- required(expert
- Self-motivated, highly flexible and adaptable to change
- Results oriented
- Great skills across communication, facilitation, interpersonal, conflict resolution, team building, coaching members on practices, framework, ability to teach/train etc.
- Strong problem-solving skills, organizational skills and time management skill
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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
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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.