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.
This Project Manager role reports to the GRAO Program Management Office (PMO) that is responsible for day-to-day enablement of the GRAO strategy. The primary responsibility of the Project Manager is to support the PMO in providing continuity across the various programs and projects that execute the GRAO strategy. 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 Project Manager must be able to work under pressure at times to handle a wide variety of activities and confidential matters with discretion and attention to detail.
The key responsibilities of the role may include:
- Responsible to develop and maintain project plans ensuring timely completion of PMO oversight and governance routines
- Responsible to manage risks, issues and changes as well as develop status reporting for PMO oversight and governance activities
- Act as a key point of contact to support PMO oversight and governance routines
- Responsible to maintain timely packaging and archival of completed PMO oversight and governance deliverables
- Support the PMO in maintaining timely and relevant program updates to the PMO Team Planner board
- Support and coordinate program communications
- Identifies opportunities for improvement and supports the PMO 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
- Prepares internal and external correspondences, reports and presentations. 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 project/program management 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)
- E xcellent oral and written communication skills are required
- Self-motivated, highly flexible and adaptable to change
- Analytical and problem-solving skills are required
- Must have solid judgment to manage competing priorities
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Equal Opportunity Employer - minorities/females/veterans/individuals with disabilities/sexual orientation/gender identity
