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.
Position : Continuous Control Monitoring Program – Senior LeadLocation: Pune, MH
Job DescriptionThe CCM Program Senior Lead is responsible for driving the strategic and end-to-end execution of the Continuous Control Monitoring (CCM) Program across infrastructure domains. This role ensures strong understanding and governance of the complete control lifecycle, including control identification, design, feasibility assessment, automation, continuous monitoring, issue identification, remediation, and ongoing optimization. The role enables real-time visibility into control health, risk, and compliance posture through automated and semi-automated monitoring solutions.
Key ResponsibilitiesProgram Leadership & Strategy- Lead and drive the end-to-end execution of the CCM Program, ensuring alignment with enterprise risk, compliance, and control governance frameworks.
- Define, evolve, and mature the CCM Dashboard and monitoring framework to deliver centralized, actionable insights into control performance using Key Control Indicators (KCIs) and Control Indicators (CIs).
- Oversee the complete lifecycle of monitored controls, including onboarding, probation, steady-state monitoring, exception handling, remediation tracking, and control retirement.
- Establish a scalable and audit-ready CCM roadmap to increase control automation, coverage, and effectiveness.
- Demonstrate strong end-to-end control lifecycle knowledge and ensure consistent governance across automated and semi-automated control monitoring.
- Maintain alignment with regulatory and control frameworks such as SOC, SOX, NIST, and FFIEC.
- Enable evidence-based, audit-ready control monitoring and documentation to support regulatory reviews and internal and external audits.
- Ensure timely reporting and escalation of control health issues, threshold breaches, and associated remediation plans.
- Act as a central liaison between Infrastructure, Risk, Compliance, Audit, and Automation teams.
- Lead cross-functional forums such as CCM Control Forum meetings to communicate program status, risks, and strategic updates.
- Partner with control owners, tower leads, and SMEs to assess control feasibility and onboard suitable controls into the CCM program.
- Guide requirements definition, test case development, UAT planning, and go-live activities for automated control monitoring solutions.
- Provide oversight for control automation scripts, dashboards, and data integrations supporting CCM.
- Ensure strong data governance, data lineage, and integrity across monitoring solutions and reporting platforms (e.g., Power BI).
- Maintain awareness of GenAI and Copilot AI capabilities relevant to control monitoring, analytics, and documentation.
- Identify responsible opportunities to leverage AI-enabled insights and automation to enhance control monitoring efficiency, scalability, and decision-making.
- 7+ years of proven experience in IT Risk Management, Infrastructure Controls, or Cybersecurity domains.
- Strong understanding of end-to-end control lifecycle management and control operating models.
- Proven experience driving control automation and continuous monitoring programs.
- Experience with requirements analysis for control monitoring automation and dashboards (e.g., Power BI).
- Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and leadership skills.
- Familiarity with platforms such as ServiceNow.
- Exposure to GenAI, Copilot AI, or advanced analytics in risk and control environments.
- Experience with control feasibility analysis and metric design.
- Exposure to regulatory audits and sample-based testing processes.
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, IT Audit, Risk Management, or a related field.
Minimum 10 to 12 years of total work experience in an IT Industry.
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 Pune Office
The Northern Trust Pune office, established in 2016, is now home to over 3,000 employees. The office handles various functions, including Operations for Asset Servicing and Wealth Management, as well as delivering critical technology solutions that support business operations across the globe.
Our Pune team takes our commitment to service to heart. In 2024, they volunteered more than 10,000+ hours into the communities where they live and work. Learn more.
Skills Required
- 7+ years experience in IT Risk Management, Infrastructure Controls, or Cybersecurity domains
- Strong understanding of end-to-end control lifecycle management and control operating models
- Proven experience driving control automation and continuous monitoring programs
- Experience with requirements analysis for control monitoring automation and dashboards (e.g., Power BI)
- Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and leadership skills
- Familiarity with platforms such as ServiceNow
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, IT Audit, Risk Management, or related field
- Minimum 10 to 12 years of total work experience in an IT industry
- Exposure to GenAI, Copilot AI, or advanced analytics in risk and control environments
- Experience with control feasibility analysis and metric design
- Exposure to regulatory audits and sample-based testing processes
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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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