- 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 role is part of the second line of defense (2LOD) Global Non-Financial Risk (NFR) Organization. As a Control and Resiliency Testing Specialist, you will be reporting to the Resiliency Testing Senior Director. In your role, you will lead the development of an enterprise-wide testing program, in partnership with a lead for 1LOD testing, and once program is fully implemented, be a specialist leading function(s) within the 2LOD testing program for NFR. You will also help define a clear, integrated vision and strategy for a resilient Northern Trust' across multiple dimensions, including operational resiliency, technological resiliency, organizational resiliency, and business resiliency. Last but not the least, given that we are a new team that lives Northern Trust's values of cherishing and nourishing our diverse and inclusive culture, we welcome you to help us further define and grow our community.
The ideal candidate will have a track record of delivering complex change programs, leading diverse, cross-functional teams and building common vision between senior stakeholders across the organization.
The key responsibilities of the role include
Support the development and delivery of monitoring, testing and oversight framework(s) for testing programs (including standards, templates and other artifacts) to support target state
Understanding of different testing types and competencies needed across non-financial risk programs to include business continuity, disaster recovery, risk control self-assessment control testing, stress testing, etc.
Support the development and delivery of data and technology plan to support control automation across testing programs
Support the development and delivery of testing training for the different programs for all LOD
Support the development and delivery of an integrated testing calendar across all 3LOD
Support the development and delivery of roadmap to support tech enablement for Testing programs
Collaborates with testing functions across the lines of defense in order to ensure (a) a complete and accurate inventory of risks and controls is identified and (b) complete testing coverage of these items is achieved.
Perform continuous monitoring with improvement planning
Develop and control deadlines, budgets and activities
Proactively manage dependencies, reusable assets' (components of the solution that have been already built elsewhere), roadblocks and learning points (i.e., milestones defined to resolve any uncertainty that the team might be dealing with)
Help shape best practices, standards and toolkit as well as strengthen our capabilities around execution of complex cross-enterprise programs
Apply change, risk and resource management
Help shape the enterprise resiliency strategy to achieve our vision of being a true all weather company' that has a distinctive ability to prevent internal stress, recover from external stress and thrive in any altered circumstances
The successful candidate will benefit from having
Strong problem solving skills (e.g., ability to structure ambiguous problems and mobilize diverse teams to solve them
Proven experience supporting one or more testing programs at a financial services organization, preferably a GSIB
Ability to move people to act (e.g., convening, structuring, owning the agenda and facilitating meetings and workshops to lead groups to agreement and commitment to execute)
Strong analytical skills (e.g., financial analysis, budgeting, strategic planning)
Ability to communicate effectively verbally and in writing with all audiences, in a structured manner, including on high-sensitivity topics (e.g., organizational structure, funding)
Ability to establish trust-based relationships with stakeholders across enterprise in support of common objectives (e.g., experience with acting as a constructive conduit between business and non-business teams)
Strategic planning experience
Ability to develop hypotheses and make quick decisions in a fail-fast supportive environment that fosters and encourages a continuous improvement mindset and execution
BSc/BA diploma in management or finance Master's degree is a big plus
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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.