- Lead technology audit validations for strategic programs to deliver challenging audit assignments
- Communicate audit issues effectively to senior stakeholders
- Manage multiple complex objectives concurrently, including resourcing, workpaper review, and schedule management
- Manage project resources to accomplish complex scopes of work and objectives in tight timeframes
- Identify emerging risks and react quickly
- Develop and maintain robust relationships with multiple stakeholders, including senior management, and team members
- Interact with a wide range of stakeholders, including senior management and regulators
- Leading by example to, guide, coach staff, and foster an environment which encourages partner participation, teamwork, and communication
- Work with subject matter experts, other audit teams, and co-sourced resources to define and deliver validation approaches
- Draft clear and concise audit deliverables, and presentations, to ensure timely communication of risks and conclusions to senior and executive management
- Maintain familiarity of and technical expertise with business unit(s) organizational structure, personnel, activities and products, new product development, financial performance, and risk/problem management
- Maintain personal education on current technology, and stay current on global regulatory rules and changes within the industry
- Communicate audit results, deliverables, and project status in clear, succinct, and easy-to-understand terms
- Ideally educated to degree level or equivalent professional experience
- Seasoned auditing experience in the financial industry or public accounting is preferred, including risk assessment, coverage planning, and execution management
- Strong project management skills, with attention to detail, time management, and planning skills to manage competing priorities
- Proven cyber risk and security control experience, with the ability to develop and articulate complex issues
- Effective problem-solving, conceptual thinking, quantitative and analytical skills
- Experience assessing and auditing compliance, risk management, and regulatory-related technology controls and tools, across a variety of platforms, against established standards and control frameworks
- Contemporary knowledge of global, regional, and local technology and data compliance, risk management, and experience with regulatory requirements
- Excellent oral and written communication skills (e.g., ability to communicate both with junior staff, senior leaders, and deliver executive level writing)
- Develop trust built relationships via well-developed listening and negotiation skills
- Confidence and expertise to negotiate with senior management, security professionals, and regulators in an audience-appropriate manner
- Demonstrated experience managing a team of professionals effectively and efficiently
- Effective and independent perspective with a proactive and pragmatic approach in communicating issues to stakeholders
- Ability to adapt and react timely in a changing and dynamic work environment, tight deadlines, and variable workloads
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Audit Specialist - London (Central), United Kingdom - Northern Trust
Description
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 world's 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 22,000 partners, we serve the world's most sophisticated clients using leading technology and exceptional service.
Role
This is a Specialist position within the Global Information Technology ("IT"), Audit Services Team, and the role will be based in London, England (EMEA). Reporting to the Director of the Global IT Audit that is based in London, the candidate will leverage their existing subject matter expertise to drive technology audit validation.
The Specialist, Audit Services, will be responsible for developing validation approaches and ensuring successful execution of validation testing of both internally reported issues, and external/regulatory findings. The role will need to interact and engage with all levels of management from across Audit Services, business partners, as well as business and control functions. This high-profile role will engage with global senior management of Northern Trust, and will support the Director as a primary point of contact for Audit Services technology issue remediation activities. The Specialist will play a key role in communicating, and supporting stakeholders. The role will also be involved in educating audit partners on application of the technology finding validation methodology, as well as looking to continually improve Audit processes. This role will require a seasoned professional, functional expertise, and detailed execution rigor to manage and coordinate effective regulatory issue validation. The role will also require strong and confident communication with both internal as well as external/regulatory contacts.
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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.
We'd love to learn more about how your interests and experience could be a fit with one of the world's most admired and sustainable companies Build your career with us and apply today.
Reasonable accommodation
Northern Trust is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please email our HR Service Center at
We hope you're 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.
Talk to us about your flexible working requirements and together we can achieve greater.
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