Cybersecurity Governance Lead

Northern Trust • Chicago, IL

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About The Position

The Cybersecurity Governance Lead is a hands-on individual contributor responsible for executing governance activities that enable Northern Trust’s Application & Data Security organization to meet its commitments. The role coordinates work across controls and policy compliance, audit management, financial management, workforce planning, and organizational governance. It produces analysis, evidence, reporting, plans, and operating artifacts needed to run the function, while coordinating with Application Security, Data Security, and corporate partners where dependencies exist.

The position reports to the Global Head of Application & Data Security. It requires more than 10 years of experience in financial management, workforce planning, or operational management within a technology or security organization, along with working knowledge of security controls, audit, risk management, and corporate policy environments.

Requirements

• More than 10 years of experience with financial management, workforce planning, or operational management within a technology or security organization.
• Working knowledge of security controls, audit, risk management, and corporate policy environments.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to develop clear management- and executive-level reporting.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and drive work across teams without direct authority.
• Must be authorized to work in the U.S. without the need for employment-based visa sponsorship now or in the future.

Responsibilities

• Track, measure, and escalate applicable security controls, standards, and corporate policies, including control documentation, testing support, and evidence collection.
• Prepare audit and examination responses, assemble supporting evidence, validate readiness, and coordinate with stakeholders through completion.
• Track findings, remediation commitments, control gaps, policy exceptions, and supporting evidence.
• Maintain governance reporting and ensure issues are escalated and tracked to resolution.
• Build and maintain department budgets, forecasts, expense tracking, and financial reporting, coordinating inputs and approvals where required.
• Track technology, vendor, consulting, and workforce expenditures against plans.
• Partner with Finance and Procurement on financial planning and ongoing management.
• Develop and maintain workforce plans covering employees, contractors, open positions, capacity, and future resource needs.
• Maintain visibility into hiring plans, capacity, organizational changes, and workforce priorities.
• Partner with leadership and Human Resources on workforce planning activities.
• Support cross-team initiatives requiring coordination across security, technology, risk, finance, audit, and other corporate functions.
• Create management reports, decision materials, dashboards, and leadership review content from source data through final delivery.
• Track departmental priorities, commitments, risks, dependencies, and action items.

Benefits

• Retirement benefits, including a 401(k) and pension.
• Health and welfare benefits, including medical, dental, vision, spending accounts, and disability benefits.
• Paid time off.
• Parental and caregiver leave.
• Life and accident insurance.
• Other voluntary and well-being benefits.
• Discretionary bonus program that may include an equity component.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed