Head of Artificial Intelligence Risk

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.

We are seeking a senior leader for our newly created Head of Artificial Intelligence Risk role. The successful candidate will be responsible for establishing and overseeing Northern Trusts enterprise wide AI risk management framework. This role requires strategic acumen quickly establishing credibility at the highest levels of the organization and the ability to shape practical scalable oversight as AI adoption accelerates.

Responsibilities:

Build & Oversee the Enterprise AI Governance Framework:

• Develop implement and continually enhance AI governance guardrails tiering and review mechanisms.

• Ensure exception management accountability structures and risk based decisioning are consistently applied.

Operate as the independent second line of defence for AI

• Conduct and oversee independent risk assessments challenge and ongoing monitoring of AI systems and use cases.

• Balance safety soundness and agility to enable responsible innovation.

Drive AI Policy controls & regulatory readiness

• Shape AI related policy standards and control frameworks across the enterprise.

• Serve as the primary interface with regulators and external stakeholders regarding NTs AI Risk posture.

Enterprise Engagement & Senior-Level representation

• Present AI risk frameworks assessments and emerging issues to senior risk committees and the Board.

• Collaborate closely with Chief Data Office Data Privacy Technology Compliance Legal Model Risk and business functions to ensure alignment and integration.

Leadership & Future Team Build-Out

• Begin as a senior individual contributor and thought leader with the capability to scale and lead a dedicated team as organizational needs grow.

Skills and experience:

Deep Expertise in AI Risk & Governance demonstrated through proven ability to design and operationalize AI risk frameworks controls and oversight structures.
Strong grounding in regulatory expectations governance standards and emerging AI supervisory trends.
Track record of strategic Influence across a complex enterprise. Background in a sophisticated international financial services environment; GSIB exposure is a plus.
Ability to drive cultural adoption of AI in a controlled manner influencing senior stakeholders across all lines of defense.
Experience partnering with AI leadership and functional risk owners (data privacy tech cyber model risk compliance legal).
Experience working within an AI forward innovation focused environment.
Demonstrated ability to assess AI initiatives holistically including data technology privacy and model risk considerations.
Experience evaluating AI related value propositions within a CRO or risk leadership context.
Exceptional communication skills.
Proven track record of achieving results within agreed time frames.

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 and apply today. #MadeForGreater

Reasonable accommodation

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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.