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.
About the Role
Northern Trust is looking for a strategic and hands-on Product Manager to take ownership of critical business applications during high-impact incidents.
In this individual contributor role you wont just manage productsyoull lead the charge in ensuring operational resilience regulatory compliance and governance excellence across the enterprise.
As the Product Owner youll be the go-to leader during incidentsdriving rapid response coordinating with cross-functional teams and making decisions that protect our business and clients. Youll also shape how access governance and control structures are designed and executed to stay ahead of risk and audit expectations.
Key Responsibilities:
Incident Product Ownership: Lead business-side ownership of critical applications during incidents. Coordinate impact assessment recovery prioritization and status communication.
Access Governance: Conduct periodic access reviews to ensure alignment with roles and regulatory standards. Maintain access structures that reduce risk.
Governance Execution: Support governance models defining ownership roles escalation paths and control responsibilities. Keep ownership records accurate and accessible.
Risk & Compliance Integration: Embed ownership into incident workflows and post-incident reviews. Prepare documentation for audits and regulatory exams.
Performance Metrics: Develop KPIs and dashboards to track incident response ownership engagement and control execution.
Stakeholder Collaboration: Partner with business compliance and technology teams to ensure consistent governance and resolve access issues.
Third-Party Oversight: Ensure external application ownership aligns with vendor risk and incident protocols.
Qualifications:
7 years of experience in product management business application oversight governance or incident responsepreferably within financial services.
Strong understanding of application lifecycle management access governance and regulatory expectations (e.g. OCC FFIEC SOX).
Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams and drive governance models across business and technology.
Experience supporting internal audits and working across departments to drive governance outcomes.
Excellent communication and documentation skills with a focus on business impact and stakeholder engagement.
Familiarity with governance tools application inventory systems and risk management platforms.
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Salary Range:
$137400 - 240400 USDSalary 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.
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.
Wed love to learn more about how your interests and experience could be a fit with one of the worlds most admired and sustainable companies! Build your career with us andapply today.#MadeForGreater
Reasonable accommodation
Northern Trust is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process please email our HR Service Center at .
We hope youre 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.
Apply today and talk to us about your flexible working requirements and together we can achieve greater.
Required Experience:
Senior IC