Strategic Compliance Consultant

About the Job:

Responsible for providing support, building relationships and consulting across the enterprise to advance the company's compliance culture while ensuring business objectives are achieved. This role focuses primarily the implementation, maturation, and support of core Governance Risk and Compliance (GRC) technologies and programs.

What You'll Do:

• Ownership, facilitation, and development of the company's GRC tools in support of the compliance program. This includes the organizations Compliance Controls Library and our Technology Compliance Review Processes.
• Works with other risk partners (such as law, privacy, IRC, anti-fraud, data governance, etc.) to ensure overall enterprise
• process is optimized for users while still identifying and mitigating risk.
• Consults across the enterprise with the objective of advancing the company's culture of compliance while assisting business areas to achieve business targets.
• Identifies, assesses and consults to the mitigation of risk with enterprise business partners across a wide range of compliance topics with guidance of others.
• Assists in resolving complex or unusual compliance/risk issues in partnership with business partners and communicates across enterprise stakeholders to ensure alignment.
• Serves as a subject matter expert (SME) on areas of specialized technical expertise for partners within Enterprise Compliance.
• Participate in projects or efforts in support of the division or department priorities/objectives as needed.

What You'll Bring to the Role:

• Bachelor's Degree Preferred, or equivalent combination of education and experience preferred.
• Minimum of 4 years of relevant experience. Experience in financial services preferred.
• Experience developing and maintain process and technology documentation.
• Experience in securities/insurance operations, information technology, law, regulatory, audit, or testing preferred.
• Experience with Process and Technology development and maturation.
• Strong consulting, communication, and negotiating skills
• Ability to cultivate relationships at all levels of the organization.
• Broad knowledge of Northwestern Mutual compliance systems, products, and business model inclusive of the home office and field.

• Ability to identify and solve technical and operational problems while understanding the broader impact within the division.
• Ability to communicate difficult concepts with others to assist in adopting a different point of view.
• Experience with ServiceNow GRC preferred

Skills You Have:

Compliance Metrics, Monitoring & Reporting: Establishes, analyzes and interprets compliance metrics. Defines and implements monitoring controls in order to communicate compliance status, risks, trends and monitors results to stakeholders.

Continuous Improvement: Utilizes available methods to identify opportunities, executes solutions and measures impact to improve existing practices and processes. Implements feedback and lessons learned. Leverages the ability to identify and experiment assumptions and hypothesis for products to be able to refine and improve them at any stage of the life cycle.

Cross Functional Partnering & Planning: Facilitates collaboration, communication, coordination, and planning with individuals and teams from different functions within the organization, and who have different areas of expertise, to achieve common goals.

Industry Knowledge: Demonstrates extensive knowledge of common practices, regulatory considerations, market trends and the competitive landscape within a particular industry / sector to better understand and address unique client requirements, challenges, and context.

Project Management: Delivers projects in alignment to business requirements, specific success criteria, and stakeholder expectations. Plans, manages, and completes projects keeping cost and time considerations in mind.

Risk Assessment & Identification: Leverages industry knowledge to determine and seek hazards that could potentially prevent the program, enterprise, or investment from achieving their objectives; designs systematic processes of identifying severity of hazards and evaluating the scale and impacts of any associated risk on the business.

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Northwestern Mutual is an equal opportunity employer who welcomes and encourages diversity in the workforce. We are committed to creating and maintaining an environment in which each employee can contribute creative ideas, seek challenges, assume leadership and continue to focus on meeting and exceeding business and personal objectives.

Strategic Thinking (NM) - Advanced, Technical Problem Solving (NM) - Intermediate, Industry Knowledge (NM) - Advanced, Cross Functional Partnering & Planning (NM) - Intermediate, Organizational & Political Savvy (NM) - Intermediate, Continuous Improvement (NM) - Advanced, Policy & Procedure (NM) - Advanced, Project Management (NM) - Intermediate, Attention to Detail (NM) - Advanced, Compliance Metrics, Monitoring & Reporting (NM) - Advanced, Quality Audit Management (NM) - Intermediate, Decision Making (NM) - Advanced, Risk Assessment & Identification (NM) - Advanced, Interpersonal Savvy (NM) - Intermediate

We're excited about the potential people bring to Northwestern Mutual. You can grow your career here while enjoying first-class perks, benefits, and our commitment to a culture of belonging.

• Flexible work schedules
• Concierge service
• Comprehensive benefits
• Employee resource groups