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.

Position: Continuous Control Monitoring Program Senior Lead

Location: Pune MH
Department: Infrastructure Control Governance (ICG)

Job Description

The CCM Program Senior Lead is responsible for driving the strategic execution of the Continuous Control Monitoring Program across infrastructure domains. This role ensures strong understanding analysis and governance of automated and semi-automated control monitoring processes enabling real-time visibility into control health and risk and compliance posture.

Key Responsibilities

Program Leadership & Strategy

• Lead the end-to-end execution of the CCM Program aligning with organizational risk and compliance frameworks.
• Define and evolve the CCM Dashboard to provide centralized automated and actionable insights into control performance using Key Control Indicators (KCIs) and Control Indicators (CIs).
• Oversee the onboarding probation and governance lifecycle of control metrics ensuring accuracy and audit readiness.

Governance & Compliance

• Maintain alignment with governance frameworks and ensure consistent oversight of control monitoring processes.
• Facilitate control owner engagement and ensure timely reporting of control health threshold breaches and remediation plans.
• Support regulatory and audit requirements by enabling evidence-based control operations and documentation.

Stakeholder Engagement

• Act as a central liaison among infrastructure compliance risk and automation teams.
• Lead cross-functional forums such as the CCM Control Forum meetings to report progress blockers and strategic updates.
• Collaborate with control owners tower leads and SMEs to assess feasibility and onboard controls for monitoring.

Technical Oversight

• Guide the requirements and test case development of automated scripts and dashboards for control monitoring.
• Ensure integration of data sources into the monitoring framework maintaining data lineage and governance.
• Oversee UAT planning execution and go-live activities for control monitoring solutions.

Must Haves:

• 12 years of experience required as total.
• 7 years proven experience in IT Risk Management Infrastructure Controls or Cybersecurity domains.
• Strong understanding of control frameworks (SOC SOX NIST FFIEC).
• Experience around requirement analysis for control monitoring automation and dashboard development (e.g. Power BI) and control lifecycle management.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Proven track record in leading control automation and monitoring programs.
• Familiarity with tools such as ServiceNow.

Good to Have:

• Strategic thinking and program management capabilities.
• Ability to lead cross-functional teams and drive consensus.
• Experience with control feasibility analysis and metric design.
• Exposure to regulatory audits and sample-based testing processes.

Qualification:

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Technology IT Audit Risk Management or a related field.
• Minimum 7 years of experience in Infrastructure Control IT Risk Management or Infrastructure Operations roles.

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.

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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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