Central Bank Governance Specialist

Northern Trust•Atlanta, GA

5d•Hybrid

About The Position

Northern Trust is recruiting for a Specialist to join their global Central Bank Governance group as an individual contributor in Tempe, AZ. The group performs oversight of Northern Trust’s central bank payment scheme memberships ensuring scheme rules and requirements are adhered to on an ongoing basis, including annual scheme membership assurance. As a payment scheme expert, the successful candidate provides proactive leadership and guidance to strengthen controls, ensure compliance and mitigate operational risk. This individual provides operational strategies to minimize risk and assure compliance with relevant legislation and obligations. In addition, they will provide consultation and advice to partners regarding controls and regulatory considerations.

Requirements

Payment scheme, operations or risk management experience, ideally from a bank / investment bank / custody bank background.
Strong critical thinking and attention to detail, with the ability to ‘go deep’ to understand processes, controls, and regulatory / scheme requirements.
Ability to systematically assess and challenge existing processes whilst managing multiple priorities and delivering to deadlines.
Data-driven mindset - uses MI and data to measure performance, manage risk, and prioritize actions
Strong Microsoft 365 digital fluency, including SharePoint and collaboration practices (e.g., maintaining control artefacts, checklists, and evidence repositories), plus Teams/OneDrive and Excel-based MI.
Demonstrated AI fluency and applied use of Microsoft 365 Copilot, including experience building lightweight agents/automations (e.g., via Copilot agent capabilities / Copilot Studio or similar) to improve productivity, insight generation, and reporting outcomes.
Clear, confident communicator - able to listen, interpret, and convey complex topics with impact (verbal and written) to varied audiences.
Collaborative partner with strong stakeholder-management skills, able to work across business units and geographies and build effective relationships internally and externally (as appropriate).
Knowledge of global payment scheme obligations, e.g., ACH, CHIPS, Federal Reserve services, CHAPS, RITS, T2, SEPA, etc.
Self-starter able to operate independently in a fast-paced, dynamic and demanding environment.

Nice To Haves

Relevant industry qualifications (or progress towards them) are a bonus.

Responsibilities

Oversight of Northern Trust’s adherence to applicable payment scheme rulebooks and access requirements, including the Nacha Operating Rules (ACH), The Clearing House CHIPS Rules and Administrative Procedures (CHIPS), Federal Reserve Operating Circulars applicable to Fedwire/FedACH, and FedLine Solutions security requirements, and other schemes as required.
Serving as a subject area expert on payment scheme rules.
Ensure amended and new scheme rules & regulations are implemented into our processes and procedures in a timely manner, including the mapping and updating of regulatory rules.
Ensure that procedures are in place (and are being followed) to demonstrate & evidence payment scheme requirements.
Ensure robust preventative and detective controls are in place, well designed and operating effectively for business functions and drive recommendations to strengthen control.
Participating in and sharing lessons from the central bank working groups
Contribute to review of incident reports to ensure true root cause and payment scheme impacts are understood, actioned and resolved.
Build and maintain relationships with different stakeholders including Control, Resiliency Office, Regulatory Oversight, Risk, Compliance and Audit.
Act in capacity of facilitator for payment scheme audits and regulatory examinations where applicable.
Ability to manage and work with various MI and data sets; ensuring timely completion of MI and other ad-hoc reports as required.