About Northern Trust
Northern Trust is a globally recognized, award-winning financial institution with over 130 years of financial experience and more than 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
- Manage 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.
Skills/Experience:
- 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.