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)

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.

• Engage with senior controls and operations stakeholders to capture undocumented processes and ways of working
• Conduct interviews and walkthroughs across multiple teams to gather real-world operations insights, not theoretical design
• Document end-to-end processes and operating models, control objectives, activities and ownership, evidence requirements for audit and assurance and roles, responsibilities and dependencies
• Create outputs that support operational continuity, audit readiness and regulatory assurance

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

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