Job Description
**Job Summary:** Northern Trust seeks a seasoned professional to lead remediation quality control/validation testing, ensuring alignment with regulatory expectations and translating multiple requirements into a balanced validation program. About Northern Trust: Northern Trust is a globally recognized, award-winning financial institution that has been in continuous operation since 1889. We 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. **Job Description:** The successful candidate will report to the Remediation Validation Testing Manager and bring proven expertise in financial services assurance and validation testing activities. Key responsibilities include: * Demonstrating excellent communication and leadership to influence a wide range of stakeholders * Displaying strong initiative, project management, people skills, sound decision-making, intuitive thinking, and sensitivity to cultural diversity * Establishing and developing strong working relationships with key stakeholders * Accurately designing and executing the quality control/validation approach and ensuring that quality control/validation documentation is clear, concise, supports the reviews performed, and explains decisions made * Identifying and analyzing risks, planning and prioritizing validation tasks for on-time delivery, conducting interviews, observing operations, documenting and analyzing processes and controls * Exercising responsibility over the execution of assigned regulatory validation projects and/or deliverables to ensure that work is performed promptly and accurately * Developing and showing an understanding of the business risks, controls, and processes, along with an understanding of relevant laws, regulatory rules, and knowledge of the impact of systems within areas reviewed * Escalating and/or communicating with relevant stakeholders to discuss the issues raised during the quality control/validation activities and agreeing on a path forward for resolution **Requirements:** * Experience in the financial services industry, internal audit, or risk management, with in-depth experience in risk management frameworks, including testing experience or similar consultancy experience in the financial services industry * Superior analytical and organizational skills * Ability to multitask and prove flexibility to change plans at short notice * Ability to communicate effectively in both oral and written forms, with all levels of staff and management * Professional certifications (e.g., CPA, CISA, CIA, ACA, ACCA) and/or an MBA or JD along with proven technical abilities in select areas (e.g., regulatory compliance, risk management, auditing) * Ability to execute a formal quality control/validation testing strategy that reflects the organization's risk profile, regulatory/legal requirements, and current risk trends * Demonstrate strong initiative and people skills, sound decision-making, analytical and intuitive mind-sets, political awareness, and sensitivity to cultural diversity * Ability to manage through critical issues and realign priorities and deliverables as needed * Ability to form evaluative judgment(s) based on analysis of information in complicated, unique, and dynamic situations **Working with Us:** As a Northern Trust partner, 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.