Job Description
**Job Summary:** Northern Trust seeks a seasoned professional to lead remediation quality control/validation testing activities, 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:** * Assist in designing and establishing the methodology and processes supporting validation of significant remediation quality control validation activities. * Interact and build relationships with senior management across Northern Trust. * Use technical ability in the execution of the remediation quality control/validation testing plan. * Play a key role in managing and executing Northern Trust's remediation quality control/validation testing program. * Demonstrate excellent communication and leadership to influence a wide range of stakeholders. * Establish and develop strong working relationships with key stakeholders. * Display strong presentation and influence skills. * Contribute to the design and build of the strategic remediation quality control validation methodology and processes. * Accurately design and execute the quality control/validation approach for complex regulatory and significant internal audit issues. * Identify and analyze risks, plan and prioritize validation tasks for on-time delivery. * Conduct interviews, observe operations, document and analyze processes and controls. * Provide effective review and challenge of significant remediation deliverables to ensure quality of design, implementation and sustainability. * Exercise responsibility over the execution of assigned regulatory validation projects and/or deliverables. * Develop and show 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. * Escalate and/or communicate with relevant senior stakeholders to discuss the issues raised during the quality control/validation activities and agree path forward for resolution. * Identify critical gaps in completed remediation activities, present feedback to senior leaders across business, risk, and compliance, in advance of the formal submission to the regulators/internal audit. * Responsible for staying current on regulatory rules and changes within the industry. * Maintains familiarization and technical expertise with the assigned business unit(s) including organizational structure, personnel, activities and products, new product development, financial performance and risk and problem area. **Requirements:** * A college or university degree * Extensive experience in financial services, with several years of direct experience or knowledge of auditing in the financial services industry, with strong experience related to risk culture, risk management, and compliance, 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) * Experience in designing and delivering high quality, high value internal testing programs for large businesses or regulated environments * 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