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.
About the Role:
This Compliance Policy and Governance Consultant role is responsible for supporting the enhancement of Compliance’s policy and governance programs. This role’s primary responsibility is to provide project management for the implementation and execution of new processes related to the development of policies and committee governance. This role will report into the Compliance Governance and Policy Manager.
The key responsibilities of the role include:
Work with the Compliance Department to implement new GRC tools related to policies
Develop and facilitate centralized governance repository
Manage deliverables with a forward-looking mindset, i.e., proactively anticipate any potential issues, prevent them and/or work with management to define pragmatic contingency plans.
Project manage policy updates to ensure timely delivery. Escalate and relentlessly pursue resolution of any roadblocks with a clear, end-to-end ownership mindset.
Help shape best practices, standards and toolkit and strengthen our capabilities around compliance risk.
Skills/Experience
Proven experience in risk management, compliance, or audit
Understanding of regulatory, compliance and risk related matters.
Demonstrated experience in governance and policy execution or remediation strategy.
Great skills across communication (written and verbal), facilitation, interpersonal, conflict resolution, with the ability to establish credibility and foster excellent working relationships with internal stakeholders.
Comfortable taking the initiative but also capable of recognizing complex problems and comfortable bringing questions to management.
Strong problem-solving skills, organizational skills and time management skills.
Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint and Governance, Risk & Compliance solutions such as Service Now
Working with Us:
As a Northern Trust partner, greater achievements await. You will be part of a flexible and collaborative work culture in an organization where financial strength and stability is an asset that emboldens us to explore new ideas.
Movement within the organization is encouraged, senior leaders are accessible, and you can take pride in working for a company committed to assisting the communities we serve! Join a workplace with a greater purpose.
We’d love to learn more about how your interests and experience could be a fit with one of the world’s most admired and sustainable companies! Build your career with us and apply today. #MadeForGreater
Reasonable accommodation
Northern Trust is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please email our HR Service Center at MyHRHelp@ntrs.com
We hope you’re excited about the role and the opportunity to work with us. We value an inclusive workplace and understand flexibility means different things to different people.
Apply today and talk to us about your flexible working requirements and together we can achieve greater.

As a global leader in innovative wealth management, asset servicing and investment solutions, Northern Trust (Nasdaq: NTRS) is proud to guide the world’s most successful individuals, families and institutions by remaining true to our enduring principles of service, expertise and integrity.
A globally recognized Fortune 500 Company in continuous operation since 1889, we’ve built a legacy of empowering clients to reach their goals with confidence.
Since our roots as a trust bank, we’ve grown to a global presence with more than 24,000 employees in more than 20 countries and across five core business units:
Wealth Management
Asset Management
Asset Servicing
Technology
Corporate Functions
Join a Team That’s Made for Greater
At Northern Trust, we refer to our employees as partners – with good reason. We understand that relationships are the key to our success. Here you’ll join a diverse and inclusive team of innovators with the drive to challenge the way things have always been done. Instead of choosing between a dynamic career and work-life balance, enjoy working with a team that supports your goals in the office and at home. We’ll help you get where you want to go without sacrificing what matters most to you.
As of December 31 2024, Northern Trust had:
$16.8
trillion assets under custody/administration
$13.3
trillion in assets under custody
$1.6
trillion in assets under management
$156
billion in banking assets
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