Strategic Cybersecurity Governance Lead & Cross-Team Impact

Northern Trust; Chicago (IL); Sur place; USD 115 000 - 195 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

401k retirement plan

Health & welfare benefits

Paid time off

Parental leave

Life & disability insurance

Discretionary bonus program

Résumé du poste

Northern Trust is seeking a Cybersecurity Governance Lead to drive governance, controls, audit, and financial planning for the security program. The role involves coordinating with stakeholders, preparing examination responses, and tracking risk and policy gaps.

You will manage budgets and reporting, while shaping workforce plans and cross-team initiatives. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in security, risk management, and executive reporting, with strong communication skills

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.

Responsabilités

• Governance, controls & audit: track, measure and elevate 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.

Connaissances

Financial management

Workforce planning

Operational management

Security controls

Audit & risk management

Policy compliance

Communication skills

Cross-functional collaboration

Project coordination

Stakeholder management

Description du poste

Northern Trust is seeking a Cybersecurity Governance Lead to drive governance, controls, audit, and financial planning for the security program. The role involves coordinating with stakeholders, preparing examination responses, and tracking risk and policy gaps.

You will manage budgets and reporting, while shaping workforce plans and cross-team initiatives. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in security, risk management, and executive reporting, with strong communication skills