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Build Your Audit Career at Northern Trust
When you join us, you’ll find opportunities in our Audit group to learn, grow and innovate as you contribute your skills, expertise and leadership to enhance and modernize our platform, applications and cyber capabilities.
Build Your Audit Career at Northern Trust
When you join us, you’ll find opportunities in our Audit group to learn, grow and innovate as you contribute your skills, expertise and leadership to enhance and modernize our platform, applications and cyber capabilities.
Why Build Your Career in Audit at Northern Trust?
Help pave the way and set the standard in how we protect our clients and our bank. When you join Internal Audit at Northern Trust, you join a global community of dedicated employees working to break new ground in the value we deliver. As an ever-growing corporate unit within Northern Trust, Audit Services is evolving and defining its own legacy of excellence.
Does this sound like you? Learn more about opportunities with Internal Audit at Northern Trust today.
Culture
Our commitment to Audit Services’ employees is rooted in a culture of care and collaboration grounded in a community-building ecosystem, where diversity is valued, and each and every voice is heard. We are committed to creating an environment where diversity is not only acknowledged but celebrated. The result? A rich tapestry of perspectives and ideas that have sparked numerous employee-led change initiatives, propelling us towards a stronger and more inclusive future.
Philosophy
At Audit Services, shared knowledge is power. We actively engage in knowledge sharing sessions, cross-team trainings, and large-scale multi-team Audits. Our broad learning offerings encompass courses that range from honing interpersonal skills to refining technical audit knowledge. We’re building well-rounded teams with multi-subject matter expertise that provide us with an edge in identifying and remediating potential risks across the bank.
Growth
We know we must change and adapt in order to prosper. Innovation is at the heart of everything we do. We look to embed new technologies and better ways of doing things into our work and processes. We’re using cutting-edge technologies from data analytics to artificial intelligence to deliver growth for both Northern Trust and for the development of our teams. We know that exceptional performance is achieved when roles align with strengths and interests, and we are dedicated to ensuring that you get just there.
What's it like working in Audit at Northern Trust?
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The Work You'll Do
At Northern Trust, we believe that effective auditing is rooted in a deep understanding of the business it serves. Our teams are strategically designed to align with their respective business unit, corporate group or regional area of focus. In this way our auditors’ specialized qualifications and expertise position them to better assess risk and controls of their aligned business unit, corporate group or regional area. Rather than conducting audits themselves, our Professional Practice Group (PPG) and Data Analytics teams provide essential support that strengthens our auditing capabilities.
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Asset Management (AM) / Wealth Management (WM)
The Asset and Wealth Management (AM/WM) Global Audit Team collaborates with Northern Trust's Wealth and Asset Management business units, as well as with associated legal entities.
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Asset Servicing and International (ASI)
Northern Trust’s Asset Servicing (AS) business represents a sizeable portion of the Corporations activity.
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Chief Risk Office (CRO) / Capital Markets
The Chief Risk Office Global Audit Team is dedicated to providing assurance to the global Risk Management and Compliance corporate function and the Global Regulatory Affairs Office (GRAO).
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Data, Digital and Enterprise Change Anti-Money Laundering and Financial Crimes
The Data, Digital and Enterprise Change (DDEC) and Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Financial Crimes Global Audit Teams undertake both enterprise-wide and local/jurisdictionally focused audits.
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Finance and Human Resource (HR)
The Finance and HR Global Audit Team is responsible for evaluating controls supporting Finance, Financial Risk Management, HR, and related corporate functions.
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Technology
The Technology Global Audit Team is responsible for assessing the information technology and cybersecurity controls environments across the enterprise.
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Professional Practice Group (PPG)
The Professional Practice Group (PPG) is a global team that primarily supports audit operations, the Quality Assurance and Improvement Program (QAIP), Audit process change, and regulatory validation.
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Data Analytics (DA)
Data analytics (DA) represents the art of analyzing raw data to form conclusions from this. The DA team brings dual audit and data analytics experience and expertise, serving as a strategic partner to align audit needs to innovative solutions.
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Meet Our People
Our people are driven, forward-thinking, solutions oriented - and that’s just the beginning. At Audit Services, we are proud to have a team of industry-leading experts who constantly push the boundaries of innovation. These trailblazers not only drive improvements within our organization but also contribute to the advancement of Financial Services as a whole.
Read more to learn about our people, their work, and the opportunities they have to grow and make an impact as part of the Northern Trust Audit group.
Prior to joining Northern Trust in Chicago Mir Fahad Iqbal was looking for an established company that offered flexibility and a good work-life balance, and he found it. As an audit professional, Mir helps Northern Trust to improve our risk management, internal controls and governance processes. His responsibilities include developing and executing audit plans, reporting audit findings to senior management and managing a global team of audit professionals.
Christine Jell discusses how her working world within Audit Services at Northern Trust revolves around fun and interesting work that keeps her on her toes. According to Christine, who is currently a senior consultant within Audit Services for Northern Trust in London, Business Management in each bank in the market is totally different and that is exactly why she love these types of roles. During her interview process she got a good feeling about Northern Trust, the interview panel and the role and by the time she left that interview her reaction was “I want this job”.