Cybersecurity Governance Lead

Northern Trust Corp. is seeking a hands-on Cybersecurity Governance Lead to serve as an individual contributor within its Application & Data Security organization in Chicago, IL. In this onsite role, you will directly execute governance activities that support the team’s commitments across controls, compliance, audits, and organizational planning.

What you’ll do

• Track, measure, and escalate applicable security controls, standards, and corporate policies, including control documentation, testing support, and evidence collection.
• Prepare audit and examination responses by assembling supporting evidence, validating readiness, and coordinating completion with stakeholders.
• Monitor findings, remediation commitments, control gaps, policy exceptions, and the supporting evidence used to demonstrate progress.
• Maintain governance reporting and ensure issues are escalated and tracked through resolution.
• Build and maintain department budgets, forecasts, expense tracking, and financial reporting, coordinating inputs and approvals as needed.
• Track technology, vendor, consulting, and workforce expenditures against established plans.
• Partner with Finance and Procurement to support financial planning and ongoing financial management.
• Develop and maintain workforce plans for employees, contractors, open positions, capacity, and future resource needs.
• Maintain visibility into hiring plans, capacity, organizational changes, and workforce priorities.
• Partner with leadership and Human Resources on workforce planning activities.
• Support cross-team initiatives that require coordination across security, technology, risk, finance, audit, and other corporate functions.
• Create management reports, decision materials, dashboards, and leadership review content from source data through final delivery.
• Track departmental priorities, commitments, risks, dependencies, and action items.

What you bring

• 10+ years of experience with financial management, workforce planning, or operational management within a technology or security organization.
• Working knowledge of security controls, audit, risk management, and corporate policy environments.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to develop clear management and executive-level reporting.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and drive work across teams without direct authority.

Role details

• Reports to: Global Head of Application & Data Security
• Role type: Individual Contributor
• Location: Chicago, IL (onsite)
• Salary range: USD 114,700 - 194,900 per yearly
• Minimum experience: 10 years

Benefits

• Retirement benefits: 401k and pension
• Health and welfare benefits: medical, dental, vision, spending accounts, and disability
• Paid time off
• Parental and caregiver leave
• Life & accident insurance
• Other voluntary and well-being benefits
• Discretionary bonus program that may include an equity component

Work authorization

Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S. without the need for employment-based visa sponsorship now or in the future. Northern Trust will not sponsor applicants for U.S. work visa status for this opportunity (no sponsorship is available for H-1B, L-1, TN, O-1, E-3, H-1B1, F-1, J-1, OPT, CPT or any other employment-based visa).

Reasonable accommodation

Northern Trust is committed to working with and providing adjustments to individuals with health conditions and disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, email [email protected], or discuss your needs with the recruiter you are working with.