Business Operational Resilience

About the Role Northern Trust is seeking a highly motivated Business Operational Resilience professional to join a First Line of Defense (1LOD) Risk team supporting the operational resilience of a global financial institution. In this business-aligned role, you will serve as the primary resiliency partner for an assigned business portfolio, working across Business, Technology, Operations, Enterprise Operational Resiliency, Third Party Risk Management, Compliance, and Enterprise Risk to strengthen critical business services and support regulatory readiness. What You'll Do

• Serve as the primary Operational Resiliency partner for assigned business lines and critical business services.
• Partner with business and technology stakeholders to identify resilience risks, implement mitigation strategies, and strengthen recovery capabilities.
• Coordinate resiliency assessments, annual self-assessments, governance activities, and business resiliency deliverables in alignment with enterprise standards.
• Maintain resiliency documentation, recovery strategies, impact tolerances, critical dependencies, and supporting evidence.
• Support regulatory readiness, internal audits, independent reviews, governance reporting, and remediation activities.
• Coordinate oversight activities for External Critical Vendors, including resilience assessments, contingency planning, exit strategy reviews, testing, and remediation tracking.
• Support operational resiliency scenario testing, tabletop exercises, simulation events, and recovery validation activities.
• Track observations, lessons learned, action plans, milestones, and supporting evidence through completion.
• Provide effective challenge and guidance to ensure resiliency considerations are embedded in strategic initiatives, material business changes, and risk discussions.
• Build trusted partnerships across Business, Technology, Operations, Risk, Compliance, Internal Audit, and Third Party Risk Management.
• Communicate program progress, emerging risks, key milestones, and issues to stakeholders.