ChiefGovernanceOfficer

**_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. **_Role/ Department:_** The Chief Governance Officer – NTGS SE is responsible for ensuring that NTGS SE operates within a robust, coherent governance framework, aligned with CSSF expectations, EBA Guidelines on Internal Governance, and Northern Trust enterprise standards. Reporting to the CEO, the role acts as a central coordination point for governance, strategy enablement, regulatory engagement on governance matters, and cross entity change. The role bridges board oversight, management execution and supervisory expectations, ensuring governance arrangements are effective, well documented, proportionate and sustainable as the business evolves. ** _The key responsibilities of the role include:_** _The successful candidate will benefit from having_** _:_** Governance Framework & Oversight * Design, maintain and continuously enhance the NTGS SE governance framework, including: * Organisational structure and role clarity * Committee architecture, mandates and escalation pathways * Allocation of responsibilities and accountability mapping * Ensure governance arrangements are clear, transparent, consistent and proportionate to NTGS SE’s risk profile, size and complexity. * Maintain core governance documentation required under CSSF Circular 12/552 (as amended) and EBA internal governance standards. Board & Management Body Support * Support the CEO, the Management Body and its committees in their sup