Jobs at Northern Trust

Lead oversight and quality-control of third‑party risk programs, provide second‑line challenge to first‑line activities, interpret policies, advise stakeholders, coordinate limited projects, mentor junior staff, and ensure regulatory compliance across the third‑party lifecycle in a global financial services environment.

Subject-matter expert in end-to-end private equity fund accounting and transfer agency activities. Acts as liaison between accounting and stakeholders, reviews deliverables, manages resources, drives system changes and testing (manual/automated), identifies automation opportunities, handles client/audit queries, coaches and trains staff, and serves as backup to the team lead.

Lead and manage a global data protection team, develop and execute data security governance, controls, and monitoring (DAM, encryption). Oversee RCSA/PRCI, KRI/KPI reporting, compliance with ISO/NIST/SANS frameworks, handle audits/regulatory inquiries, and drive program strategy, staffing, and performance management.

Lead the Automation Center of Excellence to design, deploy, and support automation solutions (RPA, Xceptor, Alteryx, Duco, OCR, Power BI, AI/ML). Manage projects, stakeholders, and teams; define KPIs and ROI, drive automation strategy, oversee resource prioritization, ensure compliance, and deliver measurable operational and cost efficiencies.

Lead technical delivery and vendor-managed implementation of payments/financial products (ACI, Fiserv, Finacle, Intellect, SAP). Ensure scalability, reliability, DR/failover, clustering, archival, automated monitoring, and performance tuning. Collaborate with business, product, infrastructure, and vendors; gather requirements, run demos/GAP analysis, troubleshoot issues, and drive process automation and continual improvement.

Lead enterprise disaster recovery (DR) testing strategy and execution across applications, infrastructure, cloud, and vendors. Define DR frameworks, runbooks, success criteria; validate RTO/RPO/MTD and data consistency; coordinate failover/failback drills; manage executive reporting, audits, remediation, and cross-functional stakeholders to ensure regulatory and business resilience.

Perform business analysis for cash services change portfolio: elicit and document requirements, produce user stories and acceptance criteria, support Scrum team, validate business rules with data, review test results, and produce functional specs and user guides to enable delivery and adoption.

Lead design, implementation, and optimization of enterprise Kafka platforms across on‑prem and cloud. Drive hybrid Confluent architectures, automation/IaC and CI/CD for no‑touch operations, self‑service onboarding, multi‑region HA/DR, monitoring and security, capacity planning, L3 support, and mentor engineering teams to improve reliability and accelerate cloud migrations.

Lead cloud risk and control activities: advise cloud engineering and DevOps teams, assess cloud architectures for risk, design controls, lead remediation of findings, ensure compliance with CyberTech policies and standards, and enhance first-line technology risk reporting and metrics.

Lead third-party security risk assessments and monitoring, drive automation and process improvements, define KPIs/KRIs, build executive dashboards, review vendor contracts for security clauses, validate remediations, support incident response, and coordinate across lines of defense to meet audit and regulatory requirements.

Senior Consultant responsible for end-to-end margin lifecycle and collateral management for hedge fund clients. Duties include three-way reconciliations, issuing and responding to margin calls (OTC and repo), resolving margin disputes, reviewing ISDA/CSA agreements, ensuring UMR compliance, month-end collateral interest processing, client and counterparty communication, and driving process improvements while maintaining control frameworks and audit readiness.

Perform fund accounting tasks for mutual, commingled, and collective funds including reconciliations, NAV validation, income audit, exception resolution, QA checks, procedure maintenance, onboarding support, training/coaching, and process improvement while meeting deadlines and control requirements.

Lead APAC Infrastructure business administration and capital portfolio management. Oversee APAC capital planning, forecasting, time reporting, MSP/vendor relationships, staffing and recruitment, talent and succession planning, communications, leadership meeting orchestration, transformation roadmap execution, and metrics (OKR/KPI) tracking to ensure strategic goals are met.

Support implementation of enterprise reporting standards across 1LOD and 2LOD, develop data maps and dictionaries, produce standard and ad-hoc reports, run data quality checks, perform thematic analysis of control and issue trends, escalate remediation actions, and partner with stakeholders to enhance controls, reporting, and governance.

Support regulatory exams and assessments, map technology controls to global frameworks, draft risk assessments, track risk treatment and governance actions, prepare committee materials, and collaborate across Technology, Risk, Audit, and Compliance to improve control practices and documentation.

Lead End-User Computing engineer to architect, deploy, and support Microsoft modern management (Intune, SCCM, Autopilot, MEM) and macOS management (JAMF) across hybrid environments. Ensure security/compliance (STIG/CIS), lifecycle management, patching, device policies, integrations (Azure AD, GPO, ServiceNow), and operational maturity while acting as technical lead for global teams.

Manage and improve Technology third‑party risk processes: lead TPRM initiatives, support due diligence and ongoing monitoring, escalate vendor risks, ensure SLAs, maintain data integrity and reporting, and support contract-alignment and offboarding.

Lead IBM Z mainframe storage architecture and governance across production, DR, and test platforms. Define standards, design GDPS replication, manage DS8000/DS8900 and tape systems, drive capacity planning, performance tuning, MSP governance, DR testing, compliance, and incident remediation to ensure availability and resilience.

Execute and oversee end-to-end trade lifecycle activities (pre-match, confirmation, settlement, post-settlement) across equities, fixed income, FX. Investigate and resolve breaks, manage cash and ledger postings, mitigate settlement and counterparty risk, support controls and SOPs, train analysts, and collaborate with brokers, custodians, front office, risk and compliance.

Lead proactive insider threat hunts using endpoint, network, and cloud logs. Develop and refine insider detection use cases and rules in SIEM, recommend monitoring and automation improvements, collaborate with threat intelligence and insider risk teams, and stay current on insider tactics and techniques.