at Northern Trust Company in Chicago, Illinois, United States
Job Description
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.
The Global Regulatory Affairs Office (GRAO) is responsible for overseeing the enhancement of our risk management and controls, remediation of regulatory and audit findings and the administration of regulatory affairs, including establishing a centralized and sustainable connection point for global regulatory communications, ensuring preparedness for examinations.
The Regulatory Operations Associate role reports to the Regulatory Communications Framework team that is responsible for the day-to-day management of regulatory relationships. The primary responsibility of the Regulatory Operations Associate is to support the GRAO in providing continuity in regulatory engagements across the firm. The role holder will need the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment and exercise good judgment in a variety of situations.
The key responsibilities of the role include:
- Coordinate logistics for engagements conducted by Northern Trust's regulators, including centralized meeting management.
- Work closely with relevant subject matter experts and stakeholders to organize and submit responses to regulatory requests, inclusive of performing quality reviews.
- Develop and manage a standardized process for the completion and submission of regulatory responses and ongoing regulatory reporting requirements.
- Develop processes for control activities.
- Communicate extensively (orally and in writing) and develop effective relationships with regulators.
- Maintain the Global Supervisory Events calendar.
- Establish and manage the central repositories for regulatory responses and presentations, including the creation of a standard response and slide library.
- Identifies opportunities for improvement and supports the GRAO to improve efficiency, effectiveness and productivity.
- Demonstrates flexibility and agility to pivot to new and/or changing program priorities
- Ability to work with multiple partners in cross-functional groups at various levels throughout the organization
- Maintains confidentiality of correspondence records, presentations and reports in a central repository system
- Prioritizes and handles multiple projects with accuracy
- Delivers a work product that requires less revision
- Able to facilitate discussions and reach decisions
The successful candidate will benefit from having:
- A College or University degree and relevant governance experience with industry knowledge is required (financial risk, non-financial risk, regulatory and/or compliance)
- Technical skills: Outlook, Teams, Microsoft Office 365 suite required (advanced with Excel, Word, SharePoint, PowerPoint, MS Project, Adobe).
- Strong oral and written communication skills with an ability to convey information in a clear and concise manner that is comprehensive, accurate, and tailored to the audience
- Self-motivated, highly flexible and adaptable to change
- Analytical and problem-solving skills are required
- Must have solid judgment to manage...
Equal Opportunity Employer - minorities/females/veterans/individuals with disabilities/sexual orientation/gender identity
