Regulatory Risk Architect & Change Oversight

ACCA Careers; Tempe (AZ); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Northern Trust is seeking a Regulatory Risk Management professional to partner across the business, oversee regulatory change and remediation efforts, and report readiness to senior leaders. The role emphasizes governance, metrics, and supporting sustainability across the North America regulatory landscape.

Ideal candidates bring regulatory/compliance experience, strong analytical skills, and the ability to influence across lines of defense while delivering solutions under tight deadlines.

Qualifications

• Previous experience in a regulatory, compliance or risk and control environment.
• Strong analytical skills, able to present and interpret data to ‘tell the story’.
• Ability to connect the dots across functional lines and think out of the box.
• Ability to identify problems, develop and communicate solutions.
• Able to manage the detail and drive execution while maintaining a strategic view.
• Deliver results 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 analyse, synthesize complex issues into non-technical language.
• Highly flexible and adaptable to change, with a positive attitude and vision to continually enhance / strengthen current status quo.
• Demonstrable 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.

Responsibilities

• Actively support the embeddedness of the regulatory change framework and relevant regulatory accountability models across the business.
• Partner with relevant regulatory stakeholders within the business and across all Lines of Defense to understand the applicability of the regulatory landscape.
• Collaborate with operational leaders to quickly identify and create effective and sustainable solutions for resolving regulatory risk issues.
• Contribute to the production and review of appropriate Regulatory Risk Management metrics, ensuring their accuracy and relevance in supporting the Regulatory Risk Management strategy.
• Identify, validate and oversee remediation of “hotspot” areas of regulatory risk impacting Asset Servicing because of assurance findings and issues consequent to regulatory change implementations.
• Contribute to the wider Regulatory Risk Management team and communication to business stakeholders.
• Advise on opportunities identified to enhance the effectiveness and efficiencies in processes underlying the RCF
• Assists management in achieving Company’s strategic goals.
• Travel to other Northern Trust locations as required.

Skills

Regulatory compliance

Data analysis

Cross-functional collaboration

Problem solving

Strategic thinking

Communication

Influence and persuasion

Attention to detail

Deadline driven

Executive communication

Job description

Northern Trust is seeking a Regulatory Risk Management professional to partner across the business, oversee regulatory change and remediation efforts, and report readiness to senior leaders. The role emphasizes governance, metrics, and supporting sustainability across the North America regulatory landscape.

Ideal candidates bring regulatory/compliance experience, strong analytical skills, and the ability to influence across lines of defense while delivering solutions under tight deadlines.