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.

Position Overview:

Infrastructure Controls – The Infrastructure Risk and Control, Database and Storage Domain function plays an important role in preserving and enhancing the foundational strength of Northern Trusts control environment.  In support of the business operating model this function has global alignment which is centrally managed, along with embedded control teams to ensure universal coordination and consistency in delivery. Candidates for this role need to be risk-minded, detail orientated and effective at driving efforts to conclusion.

The Infrastructure Control & Governance function plays an important role in preserving and enhancing the foundational strength of Northern Trusts control environment.

Key Responsibilities:

Provide stakeholders guidance on identifying key control within the Database and Storage functions.Help to drive improvement of the Infrastructure control environment.Support Infrastructure Governance team with various reporting requirements as needed.Establish working relationships and communications with key stakeholders globally.Help to develop, enhance and execute oversight of the Database and Storage control environments.Ensure that meetings are effective and deliverables are issued accurate, complete, and provided timely to stakeholders.Support in regulatory compliance operations to ensure adequate reporting and timely response to regulatory exams (internal and external regulatory assessments)Assist in defining and monitoring Key Performance Indicators (KPI) against the infrastructure database and storage domain

Required Skills:

Proven Risk professional with 10+ years of Risk and Controls experience.Solid understanding of financial services regulations, risks and controlsInternal Audit or Risk related Certification (CISA, , CISSP, etc.) is preferredHave a detailed understanding and should be a SME on the monitoring tools and Database Platforms – Distributed (RDBMS (Oracle and MSSQL preferred), NOSQL), Mainframe and technology supporting the database platforms.Have a detailed understanding and should be a SME on the monitoring tools and Storage Platforms – Dell Data Domain, Hitachi, Cohesity, NetApp and Pure Storage platforms.Solid understanding of financial services regulations, risks and controls.Internal Audit or Risk related Certification (CISA, , CISSP, etc.) is preferred.Highly motivated, self-starter who deals well with ambiguity and can execute effectively.Ability to challenge and influence stakeholders of differing viewpoints to reach consensus.In-depth understanding and experiences of information security and/ or database auditsExperiences of GRC systems (e.g., ServiceNow) preferredStrong collaboration and relationship management skills, including experiences in executive management relationshipInnovative thinking and leadership with an ability to lead and motivate cross-functional, interdisciplinary teamsHighly flexible and adaptable to change in technology

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

Northern Trust is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please email our HR Service Center at MyHRHelp@ntrs.com.

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.