About Northern Trust
As a global leader in innovative wealth management, asset servicing, asset management and banking services, Northern Trust (Nasdaq: NTRS) is proud to guide the world’s most successful individuals, families, corporations and institutions.
Since 1889, we have aligned our efforts with our three guiding Principles That Endure: Service, Expertise, and Integrity. Together, they reflect the three cornerstones of business conduct which we strive to instill in our employees, whom we call partners, and to provide to our clients and the communities we serve worldwide.
With more than 135 years of financial experience and over 24,000 partners, we serve the world’s most sophisticated clients using leading technology and exceptional service.
About the Role:
The Regulatory Program Manager role will lead enterprise deliveries encompassing financial and non-financial risk regulations, and provide continuity across various programs and projects necessary to manage effective regulatory change across a global organization and ensure that it is operationally embedded for continued compliance.
The ideal candidate will have a track record of supporting complex change programs, particularly in the compliance space and have a well-practiced understanding of regulatory frameworks, working with diverse, cross-functional teams and facilitating reporting needs from stakeholders across the organization.
The Key Responsibilities of the Role include:
Leading the execution of identified regulatory change deliveries
Collaborating with stakeholders across all lines of defense, multiple business units and operational leaders to quickly identify and create effective and sustainable solutions for managing regulatory risk
Leading Working Group meetings to support transformation and maintaining efficient and appropriate governance to enable successful outcomes
Maintaining program data and business intelligence solutions to support successful execution of complex, cross-enterprise change projects.
Maintaining business intelligence solutions to communicate program objectives; risks; issues and overall status to multiple levels of the organization.
Managing deliverables with a forward-looking mindset, i.e., proactively anticipating any potential issues, prevent them and/or define pragmatic contingency plans, with timely escalations as needed
Proactively managing dependencies, ‘reusable assets’ (components of a solution that have been built elsewhere already), roadblocks and learning points (i.e., milestones defined to provide clarity and direction)
Developing and controlling deadlines, budgets and activities pertaining to the supported projects
Leveraging and contributing to best practice in change management and execution of complex cross-enterprise deliveries
Translating and operationalizing project/program requirements and source system data into appropriate solutions
Effectively communicate with developers, data architects and infrastructure resources to ensure there is a clear and concise understanding of requirements and acceptance criteria
Skills / Experience Required
Deep understanding of project management and portfolio management tools, techniques and methods (i.e., what good looks like), change management principles and how to build and deliver high-performing teams
Experience in the financial services industry with an understanding of regulatory obligations, compliance and risk management within asset servicing, wealth management and banking, and the regulatory environment in which they operate
Knowledge of and experience in agile ways of working is an asset
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 acting as a constructive conduit between business and non-business teams)
Flexibility and adaptability to change
Strong problem-solving skills, organizational skills and time management skills
Openness to self-learning, improvement and innovation
Several years serving as a program manager or other relevant role
Work Authorization
Applicants must have the right to work in Ireland at the time of application and for the duration of employment.
Please note that Northern Trust is unable to provide employment permit sponsorship for this role. This includes Critical Skills Employment Permits, General Employment Permits, Intra-Company Transfer Employment Permits, Stamp 1G permissions, and other employment permits under Irish immigration frameworks.
Working with Us
As a Northern Trust partner, you will be part of a flexible and collaborative work culture, which has a strong history of financial strength and stability. Movement within the organization is encouraged, senior leaders are accessible, and you can take pride in working for a company committed to an inclusive workplace and assisting the communities we serve.
Philanthropy is deeply rooted in Northern Trust’s history and is an essential element of our culture. Employees around the world give their time and talent to work for the greater good of their communities.
Reasonable Accommodation
Northern Trust is committed to working with and providing adjustments to individuals with health conditions and disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please email our HR Service Center at [email protected], or alternatively you can discuss your individual requirements with the recruiter you are working with.
