JOB TITLE: Trading Controls Manager – Financial Markets
SALARY: £95,000 – £110,000 (dependent on experience)
LOCATION: London
HOURS: Full-Time
WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites. Colleagues with disabilities can be supported with workplace adjustments including hybrid working expectations in line with our Flexibility Works policy.
What You'll Be Doing
This is a key opportunity for an experienced Trading Controls Manager with strong Financial Markets experience to join the Trading Control Team within the Chief Control Office (CCO).
You'll have a broad and dynamic remit across the Trading Control Framework, helping strengthen and evolve our control environment while driving remediation into sustainable BAU and supporting continuous improvement.
It's a highly visible role in a lean team, offering a high level of autonomy and exposure to senior leaders. You'll bring fresh thinking to how we manage, enhance and present our control environment across Financial Markets.
Key Accountabilities
•Operating and continuously enhancing the Trading Control Framework across our Financial Markets businesses, ensuring alignment with regulatory standards and internal policies.
•Identifying and assessing risk across trading product workflows, settlement processes and internal and external trading platforms, embedding effective controls and reporting.
•Delivering trading supervisory activity, providing effective review and challenge to Front Office colleagues.
•Driving remediation through to sustainable BAU, while strengthening control design, automation and operational resilience.
•Developing and enhancing Trading Control MI, including risk reporting, dashboards, trend analysis and threshold calibration.
•Monitoring and challenging risk triggers, escalating material issues and clearly articulating risk positions, control effectiveness and actionable insights to senior management and through governance forums.
•Advising on the risk implications of new products and initiatives, partnering across Front Office Trading and Sales, Markets Operations, Compliance and Technology.
•Supporting the continued development and alignment of the Trading Control Framework across jurisdictions.
•Helping embed a strong risk culture and effective control practices across CIB CCO and Financial Markets-facing businesses, including supporting training and awareness activity.
What We're Looking For
•Strong Financial Markets experience and product knowledge, with a deep understanding of trading controls, associated risks and operational risk frameworks.
•Strong understanding of the trade lifecycle and associated risks across front-to-back functions.
•Experience identifying control weaknesses, undertaking root cause analysis and driving remediation and continuous improvement.
•Strong data and analytical capability, with experience developing risk reporting and MI, using insights to inform decisions and enhance controls.
•Experience implementing automated and preventative controls.
•The confidence to provide constructive challenge and influence senior stakeholders, while balancing competing priorities and expectations.
•Strong knowledge of relevant regulatory requirements and industry standards within a Financial Markets environment.
Benefits
•A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
•An annual performance-related bonus
•Share schemes including free shares
•Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
•30 days' holiday, with bank holidays on top
•A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies
