Cybersecurity Governance Lead

Northern Trust Corp; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 115,000 - 195,000; Full time

Job summary

Northern Trust Corp. seeks a hands-on Cybersecurity Governance Lead to execute governance activities enabling the Application & Data Security org to meet commitments.

You will coordinate with security, technology, risk, and corporate partners, producing evidence, reports, and plans to run the function effectively. The role focuses on governance, controls, audit, financial management, and workforce strategy, contributing to proposals and leadership materials while maintaining strong

Qualifications

• Needs strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience coordinating across security, technology, risk, finance, audit teams.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and drive work across teams without direct authority.

Responsibilities

• Governance, controls and audit: track, measure, escalate controls and policies; prepare audit responses; collect evidence; track issues to resolution.
• Financial management: build/maintain budgets, forecasts, and financial reporting; track expenditures; partner with Finance/Procurement.
• Workforce strategy: develop workforce plans, monitor hiring, capacity and resource needs; coordinate with HR.

Skills

Strong written and verbal comms

Multiple priorities

Stakeholder coordination

Job description

**Cybersecurity Governance Lead** **Reports to:** Global Head of Application & Data Security **Role Type:** Individual Contributor **Role Overview** This role is for a hands-on individual contributor responsible for directly executing the governance activities that enables the Application & Data Security organization to meet its commitments. This role leads and coordinates work across controls and policy compliance, audit management, financial management, workforce planning, and organizational governance. The individual will produce the analysis, evidence, reporting, plans, and operating artifacts required to run the function effectively, while coordinating with Application Security, Data Security, and corporate partners where dependencies exist. **Key Responsibilities** **Governance, Controls & Audit** * Track, measure and escalate applicable security controls, standards, and corporate policies, including control documentation, testing support, and evidence collection.* Prepare audit and examination responses, assemble supporting evidence, validate readiness, and coordinate directly with stakeholders through completion.* Track findings, remediation commitments, control gaps, policy exceptions, and supporting evidence.* Maintain governance reporting and ensure issues are appropriately escalated and tracked to resolution.**Financial Management** * Build and maintain department budgets, forecasts, expense tracking, and financial reporting, coordinating inputs and approvals where required.* Track technology, vendor, consulting, and workforce expenditures against plans.* Partner with Finance and Procurement to support financial planning and ongoing management. **Workforce Strategy** * Develop and maintain workforce plans covering employees, contractors, open positions, capacity, and future resource needs.* Maintain visibility into hiring plans, capacity, organizational changes, and workforce priorities.* Partner with leadership and Human Resources on workforce planning activities.**Department Operations & Cross-Team Support** * Support cross-team initiatives requiring coordination across security, technology, risk, finance, audit, and other corporate functions.* Create management reports, decision materials, dashboards, and leadership review content from source data through final delivery.* Track departmental priorities, commitments, risks, dependencies, and action items.**Qualifications** * 10 + years of experience with financial management, workforce planning, or operational management within a technology or security organization.* Working knowledge of security controls, audit, risk management, and corporate policy environments.* Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to develop clear management and executive-level reporting.* Ability to manage multiple priorities and drive work across teams without direct authority.Salary Range:$114,700 - 194,900 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.* **Work Authorization** Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S. without the need for employment-based visa sponsorship now or in the future. Northern Trust will not sponsor applicants for U.S. work visa status for this opportunity (no sponsorship is available for H-1B, L-1, TN, O-1, E-3, H-1B1, F-1, J-1, OPT, CPT or any other employment-based visa).