Operational Risk Program Manager
Company: Northern Trust Corp
Location: Chicago
Posted on: November 8, 2024
Job Description:
Operational Risk Program ManagerApply locations: Chicago, ILTime
type: Full timePosted on: Posted YesterdayJob requisition id:
R134003About 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.As a
Global Regulatory Affairs Operational Risk Program Manager, you
will be part of the Global Regulatory Affairs Portfolio and Program
Management team, working closely with the Operational Resiliency
Portfolio Manager, Chief Operational Risk Officer, and Enterprise
Resiliency Program Directors to deliver at-scale change in our
operational risk capabilities. In your role, you will work with
other Program Managers to manage a large scale, enterprise-wide
Program with multiple projects and work streams. These projects
involve delivery of critical strategic enterprise capabilities or
regulatory changes that impact multiple business units or
disciplines. This role is responsible for aligning resources,
updating and reporting on project plans, tracking key
milestones/risks/dependencies and ensuring implementation of
critical business capabilities or regulatory changes.The ideal
candidate will have a track record of supporting the delivery of
complex change programs, working with diverse, cross-functional
teams and facilitating alignment between stakeholders across the
organization.
- Mobilize and successfully execute complex, cross-enterprise
change projects.
- Manage day to day activities required by the Program Management
Office, including standing status reporting, schedule and run of
execution team meetings; capturing of key action items, issues,
risks; maintain program-level action, decision, risk and issues
logs.
- Review, challenge and route/manage packaging of deliverables
and triage escalations.
- Work closely with Sponsors to ensure delivery of capabilities
amongst the supported project teams.
- Manage financial forecasting, proposals and tracking.
- Effectively liaise between cross-functional stakeholders to
align around common objectives.
- Communicate program objectives; risks; issues and overall
status to multiple levels of the organization.
- Manage the project with a forward-looking mindset, i.e.,
proactively anticipate any potential issues, prevent them and/or
define pragmatic contingency plans.
- Proactively manage dependencies, 'reusable assets' (components
of the solution that have been already built elsewhere), roadblocks
and learning points (i.e., milestones defined to resolve any
uncertainty that the team might be dealing with).
- Timely escalate and relentlessly pursue resolution of any
roadblocks with a clear, end-to-end ownership mindset.
- Develop and control deadlines, budgets and activities
pertaining to the supported projects.The successful candidate will
benefit from having:
- Experience with large scale program management and complex
regulatory cross-functional initiatives.
- Deep understanding of project management techniques and methods
(i.e., what good looks like), change management principles.
- Knowledge of and experience in both waterfall and agile ways of
working is an asset, particularly in non-application development
space.
- Program Management experience with complex initiatives or even
a portfolio of initiatives (e.g., defining objectives and success
metrics, developing execution plans, identifying and managing
dependencies, anticipating and resolving roadblocks, ensuring that
the project teams stay on track, proactively managing dependencies
and making purposeful trade-offs).
- Great skills across communication, facilitation, interpersonal,
conflict resolution, team building, coaching members on practices,
framework, ability to teach/train etc.
- Ability to establish trust-based relationships with
stakeholders across enterprise, lead them towards common objectives
and managing upwards and downwards (e.g., experience with acting as
a constructive conduit between business and non-business
teams).
- Flexibility and adaptability to change.
- Openness to self-learning, improvement and
experimentation.
- A minimum of 5 years serving as a Program Manager or a relevant
role.Nice to have:
- Experience in the financial services industry.
- Management consulting experience.
- BSc/BA diploma; Master's degree is a big plus.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.
#MadeForGreaterReasonable accommodationNorthern 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.
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