Financial Operations Control Lead - Payments & Compliance

Leeds Building Society; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work

Bonus up to 12%

Matched pension up to 10%

26 days holiday plus holidays

Colleague mortgage and saver products

Volunteer days

Job summary

Leeds Building Society is hiring a Financial Operations Control Manager in a hybrid role. You will provide senior control leadership across Financial Operations, maintaining a robust control framework for payments, regulatory compliance and operational resilience.

You will lead regulatory gap analysis, horizon scanning and coordinate annual compliance activities. The role requires strong stakeholder relationships, clear communication, and meticulous governance across documentation and testing.

Qualifications

• Requires strong regulatory knowledge and ability to translate to controls.
• Proven track record of stakeholder engagement and influencing.
• Excellent communication and written skills.
• Highly organized with attention to detail and ability to manage multiple priorities.

Responsibilities

• Own and improve the Financial Operations Control Framework across payments, regulatory and resilience obligations.
• Lead regulatory gap analysis and horizon scanning for Financial Operations (PSRs, EMIR, SFTR).
• Coordinate annual compliance activities (SCA review, payee attestations, PCI reviews, policy updates).
• Monitor payment scheme compliance, document impacts and inform stakeholders.
• Own and maintain risk, control and incident records; coordinate testing and improvements.
• Maintain operational resilience and reporting outputs (FMI playbooks, dashboards, BCP, BIA, OCIR, KPR).

Skills

Regulatory knowledge

Stakeholder management

Communication skills

Attention to detail

Self-motivated

Job description

Leeds Building Society is hiring a Financial Operations Control Manager in a hybrid role. You will provide senior control leadership across Financial Operations, maintaining a robust control framework for payments, regulatory compliance and operational resilience.

You will lead regulatory gap analysis, horizon scanning and coordinate annual compliance activities. The role requires strong stakeholder relationships, clear communication, and meticulous governance across documentation and testing.