Northern Trust-posted 3 months ago
$137,400 - $240,400/Yr
Full-time • Senior
Chicago, IL
5,001-10,000 employees
Securities, Commodity Contracts, and Other Financial Investments and Related Activities

Northern Trust seeks a Cybersecurity Program Governance & Reporting Lead to oversee project governance, executive status reporting, delivery methodology compliance, new project intake and prioritization, and risk and issue management across a large portfolio of Cybersecurity projects. This role reports directly to the Head of Cybersecurity Strategic Program Delivery.

  • Chair bi-weekly meetings with program delivery staff to align priorities, disseminate important updates, and conduct knowledge sharing.
  • Direct and oversee creation of executive-level status reports for monthly, quarterly, and ad-hoc leadership committees and regulatory reporting stakeholders.
  • Work with Cybersecurity Portfolio leads on key messaging including progress highlights and areas requiring leadership attention.
  • Oversee the new project request process, including mapping of projects to strategic goals and relevant industry frameworks (e.g., Cyber Risk Institute, MITRE ATT&CK, NIST) as well as calculating project prioritization scores according to a defined methodology; maintain and update project scoring methodology annually.
  • Review and advise on new project requests and project change controls to ensure they are ready for leadership review, evaluation, and decisioning.
  • Chair bi-weekly prioritization meetings and related preparatory discussions with key stakeholders to ensure efficient review, challenge and decisioning.
  • Facilitate office hours sessions with project execution staff to help identify risks, issues, and dependencies; review and analyze thematic risks, issues, and dependencies and provide recommendations to Cybersecurity Program Delivery leadership to affect improvements.
  • Develop and provide guidance on common risk mitigation strategies and issue resolution.
  • Serve as product owner and subject matter expert for Cybersecurity Program Delivery team PowerBI reporting dashboards that project status, project financials, staffing, and milestones.
  • Consult with internal business intelligence teams and shared platform owners to ensure compliance with uptime and performance requirements.
  • Oversee the prioritization of enhancements and defect resolution and indirectly manage the development team for delivery.
  • Consult with Northern Trust's Enterprise Change Management and Technology Organizational Change Management teams to understand requirements and best practices.
  • Serve as expert advisor to project managers to ensure cybersecurity projects are compliant with best practices and standards.
  • Manage internal cybersecurity communication resource and partner with internal communications teams to develop all project-related email and multi-channel communications plans and content.
  • Manage internal cybersecurity technical writing resource to assist with drafting standard project documentation including scope, requirements, and standard operating procedures.
  • Lead the development of capital and expense budget requests on behalf of the Cyber Program Delivery team.
  • Serve as liaison to finance stakeholders for the purposes of accurate monthly forecasting and variance review for projects within the portfolio.
  • At least 10 years of experience in project delivery, financials management and governance.
  • Experience in establishing and overseeing governance for technology project portfolios; knowledge of and experience working in software delivery lifecycle methodologies (e.g., Agile/ Scrum, Waterfall, etc.).
  • Experience in Cybersecurity, Regulatory, or Audit-related projects with requisite understanding of terminology, expectations, and sensitivity of information.
  • Experience with PowerBI, Confluence, Office 365 product suite, and Azure DevOps.
  • Demonstrated ability to manage cross-functional teams and global stakeholders.
  • Expertise in project risk and issue management, executive reporting, and prioritization.
  • Superior Communication skills - able to articulate ideas and information verbally and in writing for varying audiences.
  • Initiative - takes initiative at suggesting improvements and anticipates the needs of leadership, program stakeholders and team members.
  • Organizational Skills - able to manage multiple simultaneous work deliverables and prioritize them accordingly.
  • Delivery Mindset - carries a delivery mindset with a bias for action, curiosity to learn, challenge, and enhance processes.
  • Expert Analytical Skills - able to assemble data and analyze patterns, trends and draw conclusions and recommendations; rely on data to guide decisions.
  • Financial Management experience managing large program budgets up to $20M dollars and comprised of internal and external labor.
  • Knowledge of global financial institutions with complex organizational structures and regulatory requirements.
  • Experience in demand & capacity management.
  • A College or University degree; MBA or relevant advance degree a plus.
  • 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
  • Other voluntary and well-being benefits
  • Discretionary bonus program that may include an equity component
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