Northern Trust

ServiceNow IRM Senior Analyst

Northern Trust$95K — $162K *
Enterprise Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience with ServiceNow IRM or similar governance, risk management, and compliance systems.
  • Deep knowledge of GRC frameworks and regulatory environments.
  • Proven ability to analyze complex business processes and translate them into functional requirements.
  • Strong understanding of the end-to-end risk and control lifecycle.
  • Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, especially with senior management.

Responsibilities

  • Lead functional analysis and definition of GRC capabilities within ServiceNow IRM.
  • Connect and align requirements across diverse governance and compliance disciplines.
  • Advise stakeholders on process standardization and platform best practices.
  • Oversee assigned capabilities from discovery through to continuous improvement post-implementation.
  • Facilitate workshops to gather and document requirements from multiple stakeholder groups.
  • Translate business needs into clear functional requirements and process documentation.
  • Support testing and validation processes to ensure service quality and usability.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive retirement benefits including 401k and pension.
  • Health benefits covering medical, dental, and vision.
  • Paid time off and parental/caregiver leave.
  • Life and accident insurance options.
  • Discretionary bonus program that may include an equity component.
Full Job Description

ROLE MANDATE

Lead the functional analysis and definition of enterprise Governance, Risk and Controls capabilities delivered through ServiceNow Integrated Risk Management. The role combines deep IRM platform knowledge, broad GRC domainexpertise, and senior-level business analysis to turn complex risk, compliance, audit, and control needs into clear, scalable, testable solutions. The successful candidate will operate as the bridge between Risk, Compliance, Audit, Operations, Product Management, Architecture, Engineering, Data, and Testing teams.   

Position Summary

The Senior ServiceNow IRM Business Analyst is the functional lead for one or more GRC capabilities and a subject matter expert in the end-to-end risk and control lifecycle. This individualleadsdiscovery, process analysis, requirement definition, solution validation, and adoption activities for ServiceNow IRM. The role ensures that business outcomes, regulatory expectations, enterprise taxonomies, data standards, and platform best practices are reflected in the delivered solution.

This is not a generalist requirements role. The successful candidate should be able to challenge unclear requests, connect requirements across GRC disciplines,identifydownstream impacts, and guide stakeholders toward consistent enterprise processes that favor sustainable, out-of-the-box platform capabilities over unnecessary customization.

Key Responsibilities

GRC and IRM Functional Leadership

  • Provide senior-level functionalexpertiseacross the ServiceNow IRM suite and the broader governance, risk, compliance, and audit ecosystem.

  • Connect requirements across the end-to-end lifecycle, including taxonomy and foundational data, identification and assessment, controls, testing and monitoring, issues and remediation, reporting, and assurance.

  • Advise stakeholders on fit-to-platform options, process standardization, reuse, and implications for adjacent capabilities.

  • Act as the functional owner for assigned capabilities from discovery through implementation, validation, deployment, and continuous improvement.

Discovery, Process Analysis and Requirements

  • Plan andfacilitateworkshops with business, risk, compliance, audit, operations, data, and technology stakeholders.

  • Document current-state and target-state processes, business rules, decision points, roles, handoffs, data needs, controls, pain points, and expected outcomes.

  • Translate business and regulatory needs into unambiguous functional requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, process flows, data definitions, and traceability artifacts.

  • Perform gap, impact, dependency, and root-cause analysis across processes, data, workflows, integrations, reporting, security roles, andoperating-model responsibilities.

  • Maintain requirement quality throughout delivery, including versioning, approvals, traceability, and change control.

Solution Definition and Delivery Partnership

  • Partner with Product Owners, architects, engineers, platform teams, data teams, and test leads to shape scalable ServiceNow IRM solutions.

  • Lead functional design reviews andshowbacks, confirm that proposed configurations satisfy business intent, and document decisions and tradeoffs.

  • Support backlog refinement, prioritization, sprint planning, dependency management, release planning, and readiness activities.

  • Identifywhere requests conflict with enterprise standards, duplicate existing functionality, introduce control gaps, or create unsustainable customization.

  • Support production triage and enhancement analysis by distinguishing defects, data issues, training gaps, process gaps, and new requirements.

Testing, Adoption and Operational Readiness

  • Define end-to-end business scenarios and acceptance criteria spanning multiple IRM capabilities and lines of defense.

  • Coordinate functional validation and user acceptance testing, including test data, expected outcomes, defect clarification, retesting, and business sign-off.

  • Ensure process documentation, role guidance, training inputs, communications, support procedures, and reporting needs are ready for release.

  • Partner with change and business teams to drive adoption, capture feedback, and prioritize improvements based on business value and control outcomes.

Salary Range:

$95,600 - 162,400 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.


About Northern Trust

Northern Trust is a global leader in delivering innovative investment management, asset and fund administration, and fiduciary and banking solutions to corporations, institutions, and affluent individuals. They have evolved with the changing needs of their clients and their world.

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Joining Northern Trust means becoming part of a global financial services institution that is dedicated to providing expert guidance and innovative solutions to its clients. At Northern Trust, we pride ourselves on fostering a culture of leadership, diversity, and innovation, which makes us a premier destination for career growth in the financial industry.

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At Northern Trust, you will collaborate with some of the most talented professionals in the financial sector. Our team is committed to excellence and equipped with a diverse range of skills that contribute to our dynamic environment. Here, you will have the opportunity to lead projects that transform our services and drive significant value for our clients across the globe.

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21,100 employees
Market Cap
$18.1 billion
Industry
Net Income
$1.2 billion
Founded
1889
5 Year Trend
+4.9%
Revenue
$6.1 billion
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