Senior Trading Controls and Audit Remediation Consultant

Timeline:
Late June to end of 2026
Seniority Level: Experienced consultants, 5 to 9 years’ experience

Location:

London hybrid, minimum two days onsite per week Role Overview

Vantage Point is partnering with a leading consultancy to appoint experienced consultants to support a major UK banking group with a significant trading controls remediation programme.

The programme is strengthening the bank’s first-line trading control environment across its corporate and institutional banking, treasury, and commercial banking businesses. The consultants will join established client teams and deliver defined work packages across controls design, remediation, audit validation and regulatory closure activity.

These roles require senior, hands-on practitioners with direct experience of trading controls, audit remediation or second-line validation within a global investment bank. General project management, governance or advisory experience without strong controls expertise will not be sufficient.

Depending on your experience, you will support either controls remediation or audit and validation activity.

• Identify gaps and weaknesses within existing trading control frameworks
• Design, document and implement controls to address identified gaps
• Support the uplift of first-line control frameworks across banking, markets and treasury environments
• Deliver defined remediation work packages against critical programme milestones
• Assess trading risks and ensure controls provide appropriate coverage
• Apply relevant peer-bank experience and industry good practice
• Produce clear control documentation, process maps and supporting evidence
• Work closely with business, risk, compliance and programme stakeholders
• Support regulatory remediation and skilled-person review activity, including Section 166 programmes
• Contribute to evidence packs required for internal and regulatory attestation

• Support audit and second-line testing of remediated controls
• Review control design and operating effectiveness
• Gather, assess and organise evidence from business and control owners
• Conduct control walkthroughs with relevant stakeholders
• Identify evidence gaps and coordinate actions required for closure
• Prepare high-quality audit and regulatory closure packs
• Support the resolution and closure of audit, assurance and regulatory findings
• Coordinate activity across first-line, second-line and internal audit teams
  
  Maintain accurate records of testing, findings, actions and supporting evidence
• Escalate delivery risks, evidence gaps and potential control weaknesses promptly

• 5 - 9 years’ relevant professional experience
• Significant experience within a global UK or US investment bank
• Direct experience within a markets, trading or treasury control environment
• Strong knowledge of banking control frameworks and associated trading risks
• Experience delivering controls remediation, audit remediation or regulatory transformation
• Practical experience of first-line controls, second-line oversight or internal audit
• Strong analytical skills and attention to detail
• The ability to review complex processes and translate risks into effective controls
• Clear written communication and strong control-documentation skills
• Confidence working with senior stakeholders across business, risk, compliance and audit
• A delivery-focused approach and the ability to operate effectively within a time-sensitive remediation programme

We are recruiting the following profiles:

• Six to nine years’ relevant experience
• Strong controls design, implementation or remediation experience
• Direct experience within markets or trading control environments
• Experience delivering first-line or second-line control uplift
• Previous involvement in Section 166, regulatory remediation or audit remediation programmes
• Detailed understanding of trading risks and control frameworks

• 6 - 9 years’ relevant experience
• Strong internal audit or second-line testing and validation background
• Experience delivering audit or regulatory closure activity
• Previous involvement in Section…