Senior Lead Continuous Control Monitoring Program

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 worlds 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 22000 partners we serve the worlds most sophisticated clients using leading technology and exceptional service.

Location: Pune MH

Department: Infrastructure Control Governance (ICG)

The CCM Program Senior Lead is responsible for driving the strategic and end-to-end execution of the Continuous Control Monitoring (CCM) Program across infrastructure domains. This role ensures strong understanding and governance of the complete control lifecycle including control identification design feasibility assessment automation continuous monitoring issue identification remediation and ongoing optimization. The role enables real-time visibility into control health risk and compliance posture through automated and semi-automated monitoring solutions.

• Lead and drive the end-to-end execution of the CCM Program ensuring alignment with enterprise risk compliance and control governance frameworks.
• Define evolve and mature the CCM Dashboard and monitoring framework to deliver centralized actionable insights into control performance using Key Control Indicators (KCIs) and Control Indicators (CIs).
• Oversee the complete lifecycle of monitored controls including onboarding probation steady-state monitoring exception handling remediation tracking and control retirement.
• Establish a scalable and audit-ready CCM roadmap to increase control automation coverage and effectiveness.

• Demonstrate strong end-to-end control lifecycle knowledge and ensure consistent governance across automated and semi-automated control monitoring.
• Maintain alignment with regulatory and control frameworks such as SOC SOX NIST and FFIEC.
• Enable evidence-based audit-ready control monitoring and documentation to support regulatory reviews and internal and external audits.
• Ensure timely reporting and escalation of control health issues threshold breaches and associated remediation plans.

• Act as a central liaison between Infrastructure Risk Compliance Audit and Automation teams.
• Lead cross-functional forums such as CCM Control Forum meetings to communicate program status risks and strategic updates.
• Partner with control owners tower leads and SMEs to assess control feasibility and onboard suitable controls into the CCM program.

• Guide requirements definition test case development UAT planning and go-live activities for automated control monitoring solutions.
• Provide oversight for control automation scripts dashboards and data integrations supporting CCM.
• Ensure strong data governance data lineage and integrity across monitoring solutions and reporting platforms (e.g. Power BI).

• Maintain awareness of GenAI and Copilot AI capabilities relevant to control monitoring analytics and documentation.
• Identify responsible opportunities to leverage AI-enabled insights and automation to enhance control monitoring efficiency scalability and decision-making.

• 7 years of proven experience in IT Risk Management Infrastructure Controls or Cybersecurity domains.
• Strong understanding of end-to-end control lifecycle management and control operating models.
• Proven experience driving control automation and continuous monitoring programs.
• Experience with requirements analysis for control monitoring automation and dashboards (e.g. Power BI).
• Excellent stakeholder management communication and leadership skills.
• Familiarity with platforms such as ServiceNow.

• Exposure to GenAI Copilot AI or advanced analytics in risk and control environments.
• Experience with control feasibility analysis and metric design.
• Exposure to regulatory audits and sample-based testing processes.

Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Technology IT Audit Risk Management or a related field.

Minimum 10 to 12 years of total work experience in an IT Industry.

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About Our Pune Office

The Northern Trust Pune office established in 2016 is now home to over 3000 employees. The office handles various functions including Operations for Asset Servicing and Wealth Management as well as delivering critical technology solutions that support business operations across the globe.

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