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.
Major Duties:Planning & Risk Assessment
Evaluate process‑level and financial reporting risks to identify key risks, control objectives, controls, and potential sources of misstatement.
Develop and maintain an understanding of business operations, systems, and control environments for assigned SOX and SOC processes.
Governance & Process Oversight
Maintain effective working relationships with control/process/IT owners and provide ongoing SOX and SOC guidance and training.
Support annual/quarterly SOX and SOC governance planning activities, including coordination of walkthrough schedules, timelines, and tracking of key governance and testing milestones in accordance with departmental standards and audit requirements.
Maintain SOX and SOC governance documentation, including risk and control matrices and process narratives, ensuring alignment with approved methodologies and internal standards.
Walkthroughs & Process Understanding
Execute walkthroughs to document end‑to‑end processes, key risks, control activities, and supporting systems.
Validate risk‑to‑control alignment and confirm control ownership, execution, and consistency with documentation.
Monitor and assess control environment changes, including changes in processes, systems, or ownership, and evaluate impacts to SOX and SOC scope and testing approaches.
Test of Design & Operating Effectiveness (TOD/TOE)
Perform and document tests of design and operating effectiveness in accordance with established sampling and testing standards.
Evaluate audit evidence for completeness, accuracy, and relevance to support control conclusions.
Escalate evidence requests and follow‑ups with control owners in a timely manner
Identify, assess, and timely communicate control design and operating effectiveness deficiencies to control and process owners.
Results Evaluation & Reporting
Assess testing results and determine control effectiveness conclusions using established SOX and SOC methodologies.
Evaluate severity and root cause of control issues, considering both design and operating effectiveness factors.
Ensure testing conclusions are clearly documented and supported by sufficient evidence to enable external audit reliance.
Communicate testing results, control deficiencies, and key observations to control/process/IT owners and governance leads in a timely and professional manner.
Support remediation tracking and validation activities by documenting issue resolution status and retesting results in accordance with departmental standards.
Control Environment Changes
Communicate and document changes to the control environment, including process changes, system changes, control modifications, and ownership changes, in coordination with business units and process owners.
Support ad hoc projects and initiatives as requested by Global Financial Controls management
Knowledge / Skills
Strong oral and written communication skills, with the ability to clearly articulate risks, controls, and testing results to diverse stakeholders.
Ability to operate effectively in a fast‑paced, dynamic environment as part of a Global Financial Controls team supporting multiple time zones and jurisdictions.
Strong technical aptitude and systems knowledge preferred, with the ability to understand and assess process and system‑driven controls.
Highly adaptable and flexible, with the ability to respond effectively to changing priorities, regulatory requirements, and control environments.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree required; Accounting or Finance preferred.
- Experience within the Financial Services industry preferred.
- Prior Public Accounting experience strongly preferred.
- Five to eight or more years of experience in SOX, SOC, internal controls, audit, or financial services–related roles.
- Professional certifications such as CPA, CIA, or CISA are a plus.
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. #MadeForGreater
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 [email protected].
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.
Apply today and talk to us about your flexible working requirements and together we can achieve greater.
About Our Manila Office
The Northern Trust Manila office celebrated a decade of excellence in 2024. Through agility, resiliency, innovation, and excellence, they have evolved into a dynamic hub with diverse capabilities and a thriving workforce of over 1,200 — driving meaningful impact and sustainable growth. Learn more.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree
- Degree in Accounting or Finance
- Five to eight or more years of experience in SOX, SOC, internal controls, audit, or financial services-related roles
- Prior Public Accounting experience
- Experience within the Financial Services industry
- Professional certifications (CPA, CIA, CISA)
- Strong oral and written communication skills
- Ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced, global environment
- Strong technical aptitude and systems knowledge
- Ability to perform walkthroughs and tests of design and operating effectiveness
Northern Trust Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Northern Trust and has not been reviewed or approved by Northern Trust.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) with company match alongside an employer‑funded defined‑benefit pension is highlighted in employer‑verified materials and filings, setting the retirement package apart from many private employers.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — PTO is portrayed as solid overall, and two paid volunteer days per year are clearly documented across corporate materials.
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Parental & Family Support — Company sources and postings reference paid parental and caregiver leave and recent enhancements to parental benefits, indicating meaningful family support within the package.
Northern Trust Insights
What We Do
As a global leader in innovative wealth management, asset servicing and investment solutions, Northern Trust (Nasdaq: NTRS) is proud to guide the world’s most successful individuals, families and institutions by remaining true to our enduring principles of service, expertise and integrity. A globally recognized Fortune 500 Company in continuous operation since 1889, we’ve built a legacy of empowering clients to reach their goals with confidence. Since our roots as a trust bank, we’ve grown to a global presence with more than 24,000 employees in more than 20 countries and across six core business units: Wealth Management Asset Management Asset Servicing Technology Corporate Functions Enterprise Operations Join a Team That’s Achieving Greater At Northern Trust, we refer to our employees as partners – with good reason. We understand that relationships are the key to our success. Here you’ll join a diverse and inclusive team of innovators with the drive to challenge the way things have always been done. Instead of choosing between a dynamic career and work-life balance, enjoy working with a team that supports your goals in the office and at home. We’ll help you get where you want to go without sacrificing what matters most to you. Delivering value and adhering to our enduring principles What are enduring principles? Since our founding, they have guided our strategy and success. Thanks to the dedication of our partners, Northern Trust continues to thrive by adhering to three enduring principles: service, expertise and integrity . What does this mean? Service Northern Trust has a relentless drive to provide exceptional service to our clients, our partners and our communities. We set new standards and go above and beyond in our commitment to delivering greater results. Expertise Expertise is at the core of who we are. We focus sharply on what we do well. From expanding our capabilities, to hiring talented professionals to developing innovative solutions, our expertise is why we continue to be a trusted advisor for generations of families and institutions. Integrity Operating with uncompromising ethics is central to Northern Trust’s heritage. As a result, our clients, partners and communities know they can rely on us. For more than 130 years, our integrity has been our guide – and that will never change.
Why Work With Us
At Northern Trust, we go further because we go together. We embrace flexibility, encourage balance, and prioritize inclusion at all levels, working together to keep you connected. We are committed to our employees—all 24,000 of them. Whether this is a first step or a bold new leap in your career, we’re here to help you move forward.
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