About Northern Trust
Northern Trust is a globally recognized, award-winning financial institution with over 130 years of experience and 22,000 partners. We serve the world's most sophisticated clients using leading technology and exceptional service.
The Role
The Risk & Control Self-Assessment (RCSA) Senior Consultant operates within the First Line of Defense Shared Service team to help the business execute the RCSA program, ensuring compliance with program framework and guidance.
Key Responsibilities:
* Execute on Northern Trust's RCSA program by facilitating a value-added RCSA product that captures the risk and control environment of the business while adhering to policy, standards, and guidebook requirements.
* Management of the RCSA program deliverables - action plans, post-effectiveness testing, control evaluation, etc.
* Review workflows to identify and drive management of risks associated with the program and improve overall control environment.
* Contribute to the development, maintenance, and ongoing enhancement of RCSA program Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and Key Risk Indicators (KRIs).
* Review KPI/KRI framework, scorecards, dashboards to ensure appropriateness of metrics/key performance indicators for RCSA program.
* Development, maintenance, and ongoing enhancement of RCSA program controls and initiate projects where required.
* Implementation of controls to mitigate process risks.
* Strong stakeholder engagement to ensure identification of issues and timely completion of actions to meet deadlines.
* Ensure the RCSA system of record is functioning properly and engage in coordination with Third-Party vendor.
* Provide UAT testing support for system of record as needed.
* Improve overall risk management culture and knowledge via training/awareness sessions.
* Collaborate with senior management risk partners and lines of business partners to coordinate operational risk management activities.
* Contribute to establishing and maintaining program processes and practices which effectively ensure that the enterprise program remains current, and incorporates/aligns with industry standards and best practices as appropriate, while adequately covering regulatory requirements.
* Manage or lead projects aimed at improving the overall program.
* Communicate identified risks to key stakeholders, organize remediation action plans, and track identified risks to closure.
Requirements:
* Strong financial services experience, specifically within operational risk, controls, or audit.
* Working knowledge of audit, risk, and operational management concepts and the ability to understand and interpret the impact of decisions, as well as identify and convey potential problem areas.
* Strong communication skills with the ability to engage in a clear, concise, and effective manner, both verbal and written.
* Ability to foster a positive and initiative-taking approach to process assessment and improvement and to identify trends and improve processes for both the customer and the business.
* Ability to handle multiple competing priorities.
* Ability to make independent decisions.
* Familiarity with Fusion and/or Salesforce.
* Experience performing regression testing.