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: 12-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?

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