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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.
Job Description: Sr. Lead Infra Risk & Control - TIPMO / Shared Governance
Location: Pune
Job Description
Northern Trust is seeking a new team member to join the Infrastructure Control Governance team as a Control Business Partner aligned to TIPMO, ICG, and other shared governance functions. This role will provide embedded advisory support across project governance, infrastructure delivery oversight, reporting, documentation, and cross-functional control activities. The position will work closely with project managers, TIPMO governance, ADO capability teams, ICG leads, and infrastructure stakeholders to improve control execution, strengthen evidence quality, surface risks early, and support a disciplined governance operating model across project and shared service functions.
JOB RESPONSIBILITIES
Project & Governance Risk Support - Assess risks and controls across TIPMO and related governance activities including initiation, planning, execution, change control, closure, reporting, and project artifact quality.
Control Design & Operating Effectiveness Reviews - Evaluate design and operating effectiveness of key project governance and shared-service controls; identify control gaps, process breakdowns, and opportunities to simplify or automate governance activities.
Planning & Approval Readiness - Support review of project planning artifacts, risk mitigation plans, communication plans, governance gates, and design approval evidence to improve readiness and consistency before projects move forward.
Issue & Action Plan Governance - Partner with owners to track governance-related findings and action plans, validate remediation quality, and escalate aging or high-impact items to the appropriate leadership forums.
KRI / KPI & Executive Reporting - Prepare metrics, dashboards, and concise reporting views on project governance health, delivery risk, artifact compliance, and recurring themes for leadership, control meetings, and oversight councils.
Documentation & Evidence Management - Help ensure project and governance documentation is complete, current, version controlled, and audit-ready across repositories such as SharePoint, ADO, OneNote, Clarity, and associated tooling.
ADO / ServiceNow / Governance Tooling Advisory - Support the practical use of enterprise tooling for planning, tracking, evidence retention, and governance transparency; identify enhancements that strengthen traceability and control consistency.
Cross-Functional Coordination - Serve as a liaison among TIPMO governance, ADO capability teams, infrastructure stakeholders, control officers, and ICG functions to align expectations, close gaps, and improve response times.
Broader Shared Governance Support - Provide flexible risk and control support to adjacent ICG or other shared governance domains as priorities evolve, including audit support, reporting initiatives, documentation governance, and operational process reviews.
Assessment Documentation & Evidence - Produce audit-ready assessment packs, walkthrough records, risk summaries, and evidence repositories using approved tools and templates with strong version control and traceability. Participate in RCSA exercise for Infrastructure Tower RAU.
REQUIRED SKILLS
As a partner at Northern Trust, you must actively manage and mitigate risk and act with integrity. In accordance with our core values of service, integrity, and expertise, you are expected to:
Adhere to all applicable risk management programs, policies, and procedures.
Complete all mandatory training by the deadline.
Understand how your behavior could expose Northern Trust, its clients, and financial markets to different types of risk.
Ensure that Northern Trust or its clients are not exposed to inappropriate or excessive risk.
Escalate any risk concerns, including those resulting from mistakes / errors to a manager or business unit risk officer.
Exercise diligence regarding cybersecurity.
Cooperate with internal control functions (including first-line Control, Risk, Compliance, Audit, self-assigned, etc.) and applicable regulatory bodies.
Avoid conflicts of interest or behaviors that might produce unfair outcomes for Northern Trust or its clients or damage the integrity of financial markets.