Audit Manager

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: Audit Manager, Digital Transformation/Internal Audit

The Audit Manager is responsible for the execution of audit engagements, which includes planning, developing the project’s scope, maintaining the budget and timeframes of the project to meet audit requirements, and ensuring department Standards are properly met. The role is responsible for their assigned staff's performance management process and recruiting and retention of staff for the audit team. The Audit Manager provides input to improve operational efficiency and/or to enhance the design or operating effectiveness of the internal control environment. The role provides technical expertise, with a focus on digital transformation programs, and performs supervisor related work including training new employees or those with lesser experience, reviewing work of others, and providing regular feedback and coaching to employees. The role is an integral part of the digital services team within the Audit Services team, responsible for interacting with local and global Senior and Executive management, leveraging technical expertise to evaluate risk areas and ensuring that resources are properly aligned to audit these areas.

The Audit Manager will focus on transformation projects in the digital space, at Northern Trust, including but not limited to data governance and management, Cloud, DevOps, Blockchain, Generative AI, Machine learning, and robotics/automation.

The key responsibilities of the role include:

• Coordinates and collaborates with the global technology audit team on the identification of risks and execution of audits part of the audit plan.
• Functions in various roles on audit engagements, including leading audits, staffing audits and providing consulting or oversight functions based on the needs of the team
• Manages internal audit projects related to systems implementations, cross function transformational programs related to emerging and newly adopted technology at Northern Trust. 
• In addition, the Audit Manager may be asked to assist with Information Technology General Controls (ITGC), information security/cyber, business application, and integrated business audits
• Provides technical expertise to the Digital Services Audit Team and uses sound audit practices
• Maintains familiarization and technical expertise with the assigned business unit(s) including organizational structure, personnel, activities and products, new product development, financial performance and risk and problem areas
• Responsible for staying current on regulatory rules and changes within the industry
• Interacts and partners with Senior and Executive Management to understand the risks within the business, business changes and other significant events that could significantly affect the business and/or the audit plan
• Train larger Audit Services team on technology risks and challenges.
• Manages and performs special projects as assigned
• Participates in meetings with business unit to discuss audit results
• Communicates with partners at all levels, developing and presenting recommendations on operations and controls for the business unit
• During audit engagements, assigns work to auditors, sets priorities and monitors activity
• Conducts the performance management process for direct reports. 
• Oversees the performance management process and ensures identification of training and development needs for the respective team members
• Utilizes understanding of various corporate units to ensure operations, services, and systems have proper audit controls in place (i.e., design of the control environment)
• Reviews audit work including work paper documentation, findings and recommendations and the final report to ensure appropriate adherence to the Corporation’s/Department’s Policies and Standards and ensuring work is performed within established timeframes
• Evaluates corporate management, business processes, business controls and operating practices during audits and consulting/monitoring engagements
• Applies analytical skills to review information and determine potential control weaknesses.

Skills/Qualifications:

• A College or University degree and 6 years of auditing experience and managing team
• Adept auditing and/or systems experience in a financial institution, or similar public accounting experience in the financial services industry.
• Solid understanding of ITGC and related processes (e.g., Configuration Management, Vendor Management)
• Understanding of Information Technology Service Management (ITSM) controls (e.g., Incident Management, Problem Management)
• Skills as needed to perform testing of application controls (e.g., Application Security Testing, Interface Controls)
• Skills as needed to perform testing of information security controls.
• Knowledge of risks related to newer technologies (e.g., Infrastructure as Code, Cloud Access Management, Kubernetes, Containers, CI/CD)
• Knowledge of financial industry standards and frameworks (e.g., NIST CSF, FFIEC, GDPR)
• Knowledge of cloud environments and related technologies (e.g., Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud)
• Professional certifications (e.g., CISA, CISSP, CCAK, CCSK, CCSP, PMP)
• Strong analytical, leadership, and organizational skills are needed
• Strong report writing and work paper documentation skills

Working Model: Hybrid

We have a balanced hybrid working model to ensure you get the flexibility you need, and the successful candidate will spend their time between working in the office and working from home.

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.

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.

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