Business Access Governance, Senior Consultant

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.

Business Access Governance, Senior Consultant

Join a team where governance meets strategy. As an Access Governance Analyst, you'll be at the forefront of ensuring that access to critical systems aligns with business roles, regulatory expectations, and internal policies. This role is ideal for professionals who excel in risk management, compliance, and cross-functional collaboration.

You’ll oversee access reviews, entitlement validations, and segregation of duties monitoring — all essential to maintaining operational integrity and audit readiness. Your work will directly support business leaders, compliance teams, and IT stakeholders in making informed, risk-aware decisions about user access.

If you're looking to make a measurable impact in a governance-driven environment and help shape a culture of accountability and control, this is the opportunity for you.

Key Responsibilities:

• Access Governance Support: Execute user access reviews, entitlement certifications, and recertification campaigns across key business applications.

• Entitlement Oversight: Maintain and validate role-based access catalogs to ensure alignment with business functions and responsibilities.

• Segregation of Duties (SoD) Monitoring: Identify and assess potential SoD conflicts; support documentation of mitigating controls and track remediation efforts.

• Access Request Oversight: Monitor provisioning and de-provisioning processes to ensure compliance with governance standards and approval workflows.

• Reporting & Metrics: Assist in generating dashboards and reports that reflect the health of access governance programs, including overdue reviews and SoD exceptions.

• Audit & Compliance Support: Prepare documentation and evidence for internal audits, regulatory reviews, and risk assessments.

• Stakeholder Engagement: Collaborate with application owners, compliance teams, and IT security to clarify roles, resolve access issues, and ensure governance alignment.

• Policy & Standards Alignment: Ensure access management practices comply with internal policies and external regulations (e.g., SOX, FFIEC, NIST, ISO).

Qualifications:

• 3–5 years of experience in access governance, identity management, IT security, or compliance — preferably within a regulated industry such as financial services.

• Strong communication and collaboration skills to engage with business stakeholders, compliance teams, and IT partners.

• Strong understanding of role-based access control, entitlement management, and segregation of duties principles.

• Experience supporting access reviews, certifications, and audit documentation.

• Familiarity with access provisioning workflows and governance standards.

• Proficiency in analyzing access data and generating metrics or dashboards to support governance health.

• Experience working with IAM or GRC tools is a plus.

• Excellent attention to detail and documentation skills, especially when handling sensitive access-related data.

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Salary Range:

$83,100 - 141,300 USD

Salary range is a good faith estimate of base pay. Northern Trust provides a comprehensive benefits package including 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, and other voluntary and well-being benefits. Northern Trust also provides a discretionary bonus program that may include an equity component.

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.

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