About Northern Trust:

Northern Trust, a Fortune 500 company, is a globally recognized, award-winning financial institution that has been in continuous operation since 1889.  

Northern Trust is proud to 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. With more than 130 years of financial experience and over 22,000 partners, we serve the world’s most sophisticated clients using leading technology and exceptional service.

Role Description

Northern Trust seeks a Cybersecurity Program Governance & Reporting Lead to oversee project governance, executive status reporting, delivery methodology compliance, new project intake and prioritization, and risk and issue management across a large portfolio of Cybersecurity projects. This role reports directly to the Head of Cybersecurity Strategic Program Delivery.

Major Duties

Governance & Reporting:

Chair bi-weekly meetings with program delivery staff to align priorities, disseminate important updates, and conduct knowledge sharing.

Direct and oversee creation of executive-level status reports for monthly, quarterly, and ad-hoc leadership committees and regulatory reporting stakeholders.

Work with Cybersecurity Portfolio leads on key messaging including progress highlights and areas requiring leadership attention.

Project Intake & Prioritization:

Oversee the new project request process, including mapping of projects to strategic goals and relevant industry frameworks (e.g., Cyber Risk Institute, MITRE ATT&CK, NIST) as well as calculating project prioritization scores according to a defined methodology; maintain and update project scoring methodology annually.

Review and advise on new project requests and project change controls to ensure they are ready for leadership review, evaluation, and decisioning.

Chair bi-weekly prioritization meetings and related preparatory discussions with key stakeholders to ensure efficient review, challenge and decisioning.

Portfolio Risk & Issue Management:

Facilitate office hours sessions with project execution staff to help identify risks, issues, and dependencies; review and analyze thematic risks, issues, and dependencies and provide recommendations to Cybersecurity Program Delivery leadership to affect improvements.

Develop and provide guidance on common risk mitigation strategies and issue resolution.

Product/Capability Ownership:

Serve as product owner and subject matter expert for Cybersecurity Program Delivery team PowerBI reporting dashboards that project status, project financials, staffing, and milestones.

Consult with internal business intelligence teams and shared platform owners to ensure compliance with uptime and performance requirements.

Oversee the prioritization of enhancements and defect resolution and indirectly manage the development team for delivery.

Communications, Organizational & Enterprise Change Management:

Consult with Northern Trust’s Enterprise Change Management and Technology Organizational Change Management teams to understand requirements and best practices.

Serve as expert advisor to project managers to ensure cybersecurity projects are compliant with best practices and standards.

Manage internal cybersecurity communication resource and partner with internal communications teams to develop all project-related email and multi-channel communications plans and content.

Manage internal cybersecurity technical writing resource to assist with drafting standard project documentation including scope, requirements, and standard operating procedures.

Financial Management & Governance:

Lead the development of capital and expense budget requests on behalf of the Cyber Program Delivery team.

Serve as liaison to finance stakeholders for the purposes of accurate monthly forecasting and variance review for projects within the portfolio.

Knowledge, Skills & Experience Required:

A successful candidate for the role will have at least 10 years of experience in project delivery, financials management and governance. Additionally, the candidate will possess:

Experience in establishing and overseeing governance for technology project portfolios; knowledge of and experience working in software delivery lifecycle methodologies (e.g., Agile/ Scrum, Waterfall, etc.)

Experience in Cybersecurity, Regulatory, or Audit-related projects with requisite understanding of terminology, expectations, and sensitivity of information

Experience with PowerBI, Confluence, Office 365 product suite, and Azure DevOps

Demonstrated ability to manage cross-functional teams and global stakeholders.

Expertise in project risk and issue management, executive reporting, and prioritization.

Superior Communication skills - able to articulate ideas and information verbally and in writing for varying audiences.

Initiative – takes initiative at suggesting improvements and anticipates the needs of leadership, program stakeholders and team members.

Organizational Skills – able to manage multiple simultaneous work deliverables and prioritize them accordingly.

Delivery Mindset – carries a delivery mindset with a bias for action, curiosity to learn, challenge, and enhance processes.

Expert Analytical Skills – able to assemble data and analyze patterns, trends and draw conclusions and recommendations; rely on data to guide decisions.

Financial Management experience managing large program budgets up to $20M dollars and comprised of internal and external labor.

Knowledge of global financial institutions with complex organizational structures and regulatory requirements.

Experience in demand & capacity management

A College or University degree; MBA or relevant advance degree a plus.

Salary Range:

$137,400 - 240,400 USD

Salary range is a good faith estimate of base pay. Northern Trust provides a comprehensive benefits package including retirement benefits (401k and pension), health and welfare benefits (medical, dental, vision, spending accounts and disability), paid time off, parental and caregiver leave, life & accident insurance, and other voluntary and well-being benefits. Northern Trust also provides a discretionary bonus program that may include an equity component.

Working with Us: 

As a Northern Trust partner, greater achievements await. 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! Join a workplace with a greater purpose.

We’d love to learn more about how your interests and experience could be a fit with one of the world’s most admired and sustainable companies! Build your career with us and apply today. #MadeForGreater 

Reasonable accommodation

  

Northern Trust is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please email our HR Service Center at MyHRHelp@ntrs.com.

 
We hope you’re excited about the role and the opportunity to work with us. We value an inclusive workplace and understand flexibility means different things to different people.

Apply today and talk to us about your flexible working requirements and together we can achieve greater.