Controls Assurance Lead (Financial Services)

Controls Assurance Lead (Financial Services)

• Location: Liverpool / Hybrid
• Hours: Monday to Friday, 35 hours per week, flexible start and finish times
• Contract: 6-month FTC
• Salary: Up to £75,000 (Depending on experience)

The Opportunity

This is a hands-on interim role focused on capturing how a financial services organisation's controls and assurance processes actually operate in practice.

You'll work closely with senior stakeholders to extract critical, experience-based knowledge and turn it into clear, structured, audit-ready documentation.

Much of this knowledge currently sits across individuals and teams - your role is to make it consistent, accessible, and sustainable.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Engage with senior controls and operations stakeholders to capture undocumented processes and ways of working
• Conduct interviews and walkthroughs across multiple teams
• Document:
• End-to-end processes and operating models
• Control objectives, activities, and ownership
• Evidence requirements for audit and assurance
• Roles, responsibilities, and dependencies
• Ensure documentation reflects real-world operations, not theoretical design
• Create outputs that support:
• Operational continuity
• Audit readiness
• Regulatory assurance

What We're Looking For:

• Strong background in financial services (preferably wealth management), working in senior role within front line operations teams or Governance, Risk Management and Compliance
• Experience in the First Line of Defence
• Hands-on exposure to:
• Controls frameworks and assurance activities
• Reconciliations, data checks, or operational controls
• Proven ability to document complex processes clearly and accurately
• Strong stakeholder engagement and interviewing skills

Interested?

For more information or a confidential discussion, please get in touch.

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