Senior Financial Operations Controls Leader

Leeds Building Society; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working – 2 days per week inthe

Annual bonus of up to 12%

Matched pension contributions up to 10

26 days holiday, plus bank holidays

Holiday purchase scheme

Colleague Mortgage and Saver products

2 days' volunteering per year

Job summary

Leeds Building Society in Leeds is seeking a Financial Operations Control Manager to provide senior control leadership across Financial Operations, ensuring a robust control framework for payments, regulatory compliance and operational resilience.

You will lead regulatory gap analysis, coordinate annual compliance activities, and maintain risk and control records while supporting reporting outputs and incident management.

Qualifications

• Strong working knowledge of the payments regulatory environment and risk
• Ability to translate regulatory requirements into practical controls and reporting
• Proven track record of building relationships with stakeholders and subject matter experts
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, written and verbal

Responsibilities

• Own, maintain and improve the Financial Operations Control Framework across payment, regulatory and operational resilience obligations.
• Lead regulatory gap analysis and horizon scanning for Financial Operations, including PSRs, EMIR and SFTR requirements.
• Coordinate key annual compliance activities, including SCA review, Confirmation of Payee attestation, PCI reviews and policy or standards updates.
• Monitor payment scheme compliance and communicate requirements to stakeholders.
• Own and maintain risk, control and incident records, coordinating critical control testing and improvements.
• Maintain operational resilience and reporting outputs, including FMI playbooks, dashboards, insurance inputs, BCP, BIA, OCIR and KPR updates.

Skills

Regulatory environment

Risk management

Stakeholder management

Communication

Organization

Independent delivery

Job description

Leeds Building Society in Leeds is seeking a Financial Operations Control Manager to provide senior control leadership across Financial Operations, ensuring a robust control framework for payments, regulatory compliance and operational resilience.

You will lead regulatory gap analysis, coordinate annual compliance activities, and maintain risk and control records while supporting reporting outputs and incident management.