Controls Assurance Lead (Financial Services)

Allscreens Nationwide Ltd; Liverpool; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Allscreens Nationwide Ltd. in Liverpool is seeking a Controls Assurance Lead for a 12-month FTC with hybrid working. The role focuses on capturing how controls and assurance processes operate in practice and turning insights into audit-ready documentation.

You'll work with senior stakeholders to extract real-world operations knowledge, document end-to-end processes and evidence requirements to support regulatory assurance and ongoing continuity.

Qualifications

• Strong background in financial services with frontline operations or governance and controls.
• Experience in First Line of Defence controls frameworks and assurance activities.
• Proven ability to document complex processes clearly and accurately.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and interviewing capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Engage with senior controls and operations stakeholders to capture undocumented processes.
• Conduct interviews and walkthroughs across multiple teams to gather real-world insights.
• Document end-to-end processes, control objectives, activities, ownership and evidence needs.
• Create outputs that support audit readiness, regulatory assurance and continuity.

Skills

Stakeholder engagement

Interviewing skills

Process documentation

GRC awareness

Job description

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)

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 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

What We’re Looking For

• 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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