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.
Role/ Department: IT Audit Manager/Internal Audit
The IT Audit Manager is responsible for conducting and documenting audits throughout the Corporation. This role leads audit project teams, which includes providing oversight to the audit team and communicating results of the engagement to management. The IT Audit Manager provides technical information security expertise and training to auditors within the engagement audit team and works closely with Sr IT Audit Managers to confirm the scope of the audit and to devise an appropriate testing approach to be performed during the engagement.
Specific to this role, the IT Audit Manager is also responsible for leading validation efforts for enhanced and newly implemented controls for information technology, data and cyber security under the bank's transformation projects.
The key responsibilities of the role include:
Leadership and Management
Establishes and develops strong working relationships and open communication with key stakeholders
Provides training, coaching, and auditing expertise to the audit team
Accountable for own assignments and holding others accountable for theirs including proactively managing expectations
Audit Methodology
Identify technology and cyber risk and controls within processes
Lead internal audit projects related to IT controls, information security / cyber, pre/post system implementation, IT governance, and operational areas; drive consistency of methodology
Assists with the development of the audit budget and/or timeframe for how the audit will be completed based on the objective and risk of the areas covered within the engagement
Finalizes planning documents and conducts first level review of planning documents as required
Coordinates with other audit teams (business unit, regional, and specialist) to ensure evaluations of related areas occur timely and cover key areas within the audit
Demonstrates professional skepticism and comfort with questioning how certain processes are being performed in order to facilitate making improvements
Reviews the work papers of the audit team members ensuring that departmental standards have been met
Communicates the audit status to business unit stakeholders and Audit Services management
Drafts findings and recommendations for the purpose of status updates, memos, and audit reports
Maintain technical competence by ongoing training, seeking development opportunities and applying new knowledge to daily work assignments
Skills/Qualifications:
Minimum of 5 years of IT auditing and systems experience
Experience leading teams
Knowledge of audit procedures and technical security and control standards usually obtained through related work experience and a four year degree program is required to perform system audits
Solid understanding of Information Technology and Cybersecurity controls
Skills as needed to perform testing of design and operational effectiveness of...
Equal Opportunity Employer - minorities/females/veterans/individuals with disabilities/sexual orientation/gender identity
