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.

Position: Continuous Control Monitoring Program – Senior Lead

Location: Pune, MH
Department: Infrastructure Control Governance (ICG)

The CCM Program Senior Lead is responsible for driving the strategic execution of the Continuous Control Monitoring Program across infrastructure domains. This role ensures strong understanding, analysis and governance of automated and semi-automated control monitoring processes, enabling real-time visibility into control health and risk and compliance posture.

Key Responsibilities

Program Leadership & Strategy

• Lead the end-to-end execution of the CCM Program, aligning with organizational risk and compliance frameworks.
• Define and evolve the CCM Dashboard to provide centralized, automated, and actionable insights into control performance using Key Control Indicators (KCIs) and Control Indicators (CIs).
• Oversee the onboarding, probation, and governance lifecycle of control metrics, ensuring accuracy and audit readiness.

Governance & Compliance

• Maintain alignment with governance frameworks and ensure consistent oversight of control monitoring processes.
• Facilitate control owner engagement and ensure timely reporting of control health, threshold breaches, and remediation plans.
• Support regulatory and audit requirements by enabling evidence-based control operations and documentation.

Stakeholder Engagement

• Act as a central liaison among infrastructure, compliance, risk, and automation teams.
• Lead cross-functional forums such as the CCM Control Forum meetings to report progress, blockers, and strategic updates.
• Collaborate with control owners, tower leads, and SMEs to assess feasibility and onboard controls for monitoring.

Technical Oversight

• Guide the requirements and test case development of automated scripts and dashboards for control monitoring.
• Ensure integration of data sources into the monitoring framework, maintaining data lineage and governance.
• Oversee UAT planning, execution, and go-live activities for control monitoring solutions.

Must Haves:

• 12+ years of experience required as total.
• 7 + years proven experience in IT Risk Management, Infrastructure Controls, or Cybersecurity domains.
• Strong understanding of control frameworks (SOC, SOX, NIST, FFIEC).
• Experience around requirement analysis for control monitoring automation and dashboard development (e.g., Power BI), and control lifecycle management.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Proven track record in leading control automation and monitoring programs.
• Familiarity with tools such as ServiceNow.

Good to Have:

• Strategic thinking and program management capabilities.
• Ability to lead cross-functional teams and drive consensus.
• Experience with control feasibility analysis and metric design.
• Exposure to regulatory audits and sample-based testing processes.

Qualification:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, IT Audit, Risk Management, or a related field.
• Minimum 7 + years of experience in Infrastructure Control, IT Risk Management, or Infrastructure Operations roles.

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.

About Our Pune Office

The Northern Trust Pune office, established in 2016, is now home to over 3,000 employees. The office handles various functions, including Operations for Asset Servicing and Wealth Management, as well as delivering critical technology solutions that support business operations across the globe.

Our Pune team takes our commitment to service to heart. In 2024, they volunteered more than 10,000+ hours into the communities where they live and work. Learn more.