Technical Regulatory Specialist

Technical Regulatory 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.

**Role Summary**

This role is the part of a newly-created Regulatory Oversight team supporting Global Services functions in their ability to comply with impacting regulations. The **Technical Regulatory Specialist** will contribute to the ongoing assessment of the end-to-end Global Services regulatory environment, oversight of key regulatory initiatives and projects, and liaising with the relevant lines of defense to ensure adherence to the global regulatory change framework.

This role will report to APAC Regulatory Risk & Oversight Manager.

**What you will do
- Proactive oversight and maintenance of the Global Services regulatory change model, and monitoring of Global Services' adherence to the corporate regulatory change framework
- Liaison with Global Services functions through regulatory considerations and developments, and ownership of relationships with Compliance, Risk and Legal during the regulatory change process
- Oversight of the regulatory portfolio with a focus on operational readiness and traceability to minimize regulatory risk and enable effective handover to Global Services functional owners
- Representation of Global Services at relevant internal regulatory forums and leading Global Services-specific forums to discuss and review impacts of regulations on functional areas
- Production of relevant metrics and reporting on the effectiveness of the regulatory environment in Global Services, i.e. related to regulatory change and regulatory oversight activities
- Lead training and communications with partners to promote a robust risk and regulatory culture and reinforce risk and regulatory principles
- Identification and/or creation of enterprise-level Business Unit Standards for Global Services as a result of policy change or regulatory requirement
- Guided by functional policies and regulation

**About You**
- Proven risk, regulatory, technical, business and/or industry knowledge.
- Strong understanding of regulatory change process in Financial Services organizations and the impact of regulation on operational matters (ASIC)
- May lead functional teams or projects with moderate resource requirements, risk, and/or complexity
- Sound knowledge of the Securities Services and Treasury / Cash business
- Flexibility and adaptability to change, with the appetite to continually enhance / strengthen status quo
- Ability to influence and persuade others (e.g. peers, partners, senior management and external parties) to implement change, strategy and decision making in a diverse and matrix environment
- Ability to connect the dots across functional lines and think creatively
- Excellent analytical skills, with the ability to identify problems, develop and communicate strategic solutions.
- Track record of delivering to tight deadlines
- Excellent communication skills (both written and oral) to interact and manage expectations with senior level audiences, stakeholders and management
- A strong and proven ability to analyze, break down and explain complex issues in non-technical language.
- Interprets internal/external business challenges and recommends best practices to improve products, processes or services
- Communicates difficult concepts and negotiates with others to adopt a different point of view

**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.

**Reasonable accommodation**

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.

Job ID 109766