Job Description

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 assuranceWhat 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 skillsInterested?

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