Financial Crime Specialist

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. This Financial Crime Specialist role sits within the GRAO with primary responsibility for providing subject matter expertise across a multi-year regulatory and risk program necessary to execute GRAO strategy. This role will report into the Program Sponsor for compliance and legal risk.The Financial Crime Specialist will support key pillars of the Program, responsible for financial crime risk across the compliance lifecycle with a particular focus on risk assessment, policy, monitoring, incident and issue management, metrics, and governance for Level 3 risks aligned to financial crime risk.Principal ResponsibilitiesThe key responsibilities of the role include:Supporting the definition and execution of financial crime risk within the First and Second Lines of Defense (1LOD and 2LOD) across the compliance lifecycle.Collaborating with other Program Leads within the Compliance Program and stakeholders across all lines of defense.Leading Working Group meetings to support transformation and maintain efficient governance.Managing the pillars and deliverables for financial crime risk with a proactive mindset.Supporting activities and the Pillar Leads to enable successful delivery against agreed deadlines.Proactively managing dependencies, reusable assets, roadblocks, and learning points.Escalating and pursuing resolution of any roadblocks with a clear ownership mindset.Communicating effectively with developers, data architects, and infrastructure resources.Helping shape best practices, standards, and toolkit to strengthen capabilities around financial crime risk.Skills / ExperienceDeep understanding of financial crime regulatory, compliance, and risk-related matters.Demonstrated experience in transformation or remediation strategy linked to technology enablement.Knowledge of the financial services industry, especially asset servicing, wealth management, and banking.Strong communication, facilitation, interpersonal, conflict resolution, and team building skills.Ability to establish trust-based relationships with stakeholders across the enterprise.Strong problem-solving, organizational, and time management skills.Experience managing third parties such as consultants and tracking financial expenses.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 emboldens us to explore new ideas.Movement within the organization is encouraged, and senior leaders are accessible. Join a workplace with a greater purpose.Reasonable AccommodationNorthern Trust is committed to 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.Apply today and talk to us about your flexible working requirements.

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