About this role

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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