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.

Major Duties :

• Leads others to solve complex problems
• Manages a business continuity or disaster recovery program for Global Procurement. Oversees, plans, and manages activities for the business continuity or disaster recovery function and units, ensuring that the business objectives are met in a timely manner.
• Leads, tracks and documents the annual risk and controls self-assessment program for all global procurement controls in scope.
• Indirectly manages and liaises with domestic and international business continuity or disaster recovery coordinators throughout the procurement organization
• Participates in the development of long-range business continuity and disaster recovery plans for in scope procurement activities.
• Coordinates and executes the testing of business continuity and disaster recovery plans, recommends and follows up on business unit implementation of changes to the plans as appropriate.
• Consults with internal partners to identify critical business functions in order of priority or application/system tier level that must be restored in event of a disruption
• Keeps abreast of current legal requirements in order to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and interprets those mandates for management and staff.
• Represents Global Procurement and provides leadership of various business continuity and disaster recovery related steering committees in conjunction with the senior management of Global Procurement.
• Consults with internal partners on business continuity and disaster recovery processes assuring consistency with industry best practices.
• Serves as the Point of Contact to the various committees and steer groups across the organization.

Knowledge :

• Knowledge of the corporate business strategy development is necessary to effectively manage the business continuity and disaster recovery units.
• Knowledge of disaster recovery planning and business resumption planning usually acquired through related experience is critical to coordinating the planning and recovery processes.
• • Knowledge of communication and systems technologies usually acquired through formal education or previous experience is required for understanding how technologies function so that they can be adequately tested.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills are required to manage the activities for the respective units.
• Strong organizational skills are necessary to determine the unit goals, resources needed, and to assess and develop the skills of the staff.
• Interpersonal (relationship builder, respectful, resolves problems, influential, people friendly and organizational savvy)
• Self-management (adaptability and resilience, learning behavior, integrity and ethics)
• Client Service and Quality (quality, relationship building and client satisfaction)

Experience :

• University degree or equivalent experience required, with 7+ years of total experience in the financial services industry preferred
• May lead functional teams or projects with moderate resource requirements, risk, and/or complexity

Salary Range:

$108,965 - 185,155 USD

Salary range is a good faith estimate of base pay. Northern Trust provides a comprehensive benefits package including retirement benefits (401k and pension), health and welfare benefits (medical, dental, vision, spending accounts and disability), paid time off, parental and caregiver leave, life & accident insurance, and other voluntary and well-being benefits. Northern Trust also provides a discretionary bonus program that may include an equity component.

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.