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.
SUMMARY
This is an exciting opportunity within the newly-established Global Regulatory Change, Framework & Oversight (GRCFO) team, part of the enterprise Global Regulatory Affairs Office. The GRCFO oversees the enterprise management and delivery of regulatory change, providing governance and oversight of the frameworks that enable understanding of regulatory obligations, mitigation of regulatory risks, and compliance with applicable regulations. The GRCFO design supports this mandate across three key pillars: i) Risk & Regulatory Frameworks, ii) Regulatory Change Portfolio, iii) Assurance Hub. This roles sits within the Regulatory Change Portfolio pillar - a high-functioning team focused on enterprise-wide regulatory change, enterprise-wide self-identified validation and/or remediation, covering both financial and non-financial risk deliveries.
The Regulatory Oversight Specialist supports both the Risk & Regulatory Frameworks and the Regulatory Change Portfolio, contributes to the ongoing assessment of the regulatory environment by providing oversight of the enterprise regulatory initiatives, and liaising with the relevant lines of defense to ensure alignment and adherence to the firm's Regulatory Change Framework (RCF). The role reports to a Regulatory Oversight Manager.
Regulatory Specialist will contribute to the ongoing assessment of the end-to-end Global Services regulatory environment, oversight of key regulatory initiatives and projects, and liaising with the relevant lines of defense to ensure adherence to the global regulatory change framework.
MAJOR DUTIES
- Proactive oversight and maintenance of the enterprise Regulatory Change Framework, monitoring of the firm's alignment with the RCF throughout the regulatory life cycle.
- Liaison with stakeholder groups across all lines of defense through regulatory considerations and developments, and ownership of relationships with Compliance, Risk and Legal during the regulatory change process and implementation of enterprise regulations
- Oversight of the regulatory portfolio with a focus on operational readiness and traceability to minimize regulatory risk and enable effective handover to impacted functional owners
- Representation of the RCF and GRCFO at relevant internal regulatory forums and leading specific enterprise and/or legal entity-specific forums to discuss and review impacts of regulations on those areas
- Production of relevant metrics and reporting on the effectiveness of the regulatory environment, i.e. related to regulatory change and regulatory oversight activities
- Lead training and communications with partners to promote a robust risk and regulatory culture and reinforce risk and regulatory principles
- Identification and/or creation of enterprise-level standards as a result of policy change or regulatory requirement
KNOWLEDGE/SKILLS
- Clear communication to stakeholders at all levels and exhibits a clear understanding of regulatory risk management
- Knowledge of the financial services...
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