Customer Assurance Executive ( Maternity Contract's )

Mars Capital; Dublin; On-site; EUR 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Mars Capital, part of Arrow Global Group, seeks a Customer Assurance Executive on a maternity contract to strengthen control testing and risk management across customer journeys. The role focuses on delivering assurance activities, identifying systemic gaps and coordinating remediation with governance oversight.

Based in Dublin, you will work within our Chief Customer Officer function, supporting first-line assurance and reporting to senior stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Experience in retail credit servicing and its regulatory framework (including Central Bank of Ireland).
• Experience in operational risk, assurance or control environments within financial services.
• Strong analytical skills and attention to detail; able to produce clear MI for senior stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Deliver assurance and control testing programmes across customer journeys and key processes.
• Identify gaps, weaknesses and emerging risks; support remediation and action tracking.
• Provide oversight for Risk & Control Self-Assessments and associated reporting.
• Collaborate with business teams to ensure controls are embedded across processes and journeys.

Skills

Financial services knowledge

Stakeholder engagement

Risk & control testing

Regulatory compliance

Communication skills

Job description

Customer Assurance Executive ( Maternity Contract's )

• Full-time


• Maternity Contract


• 1 x 10 months


• 1 x 12 months

We want to tell you more about Mars Capital, which we have done on this page; page two details our Customer Assurance Executive role

Mars Capital is part of Arrow Global Group Limited, which is one of Europe’s leading integrated asset managers with €70bn Assets Under Management (“AUM”) and 2,000 employees across five jurisdictions.

Mars Capital was established in 2015 and is a Regulated Credit Servicing Firm, authorised by the Central Bank of Ireland and located in Dublin 2. Mars Capital has the capacity and regulatory authority to service loans secured against properties and has €8bn AUM, experiencing significant growth in recent years. We provide services that span the full lifecycle of a loan post origination, from drawdown through to loan administration, asset management, enforcement as well as syndication, securitisation, and standby servicing.

We value our relationship with our clients and believe that our deployment of dedicated, Dublin-based project and asset management teams give us a competitive advantage over other competitors who operate a shared services model across their portfolios. Placing the customer first in a simple and efficient manner in line with our regulatory obligation is our number one priority.

Our local strategic ambition is to provide value accretive services to institutional clients, while building better financial futures for our customers, clients, communities and colleagues.

Our Culture and Way of Working

We’re entrepreneurial, fast-paced and decisive, working together safely and supportively. We trust our colleagues to make the right decisions and are brave enough to acknowledge mistakes and to learn from them. Celebrating success, we reward those who help us to achieve exceptional long-term results.

We’re inclusive and encourage our colleagues to be themselves. Our culture supports the difference that makes each of us unique. We’re open and eager to embrace new ways of working and have a diverse community, enriched by our local identities that works collaboratively to build a unified and dynamic organisation.

We believe that a supported flexible working approach helps us to retain valued colleagues, enhance wellbeing, increase motivation and encourage a healthy work/life balance. If you’re interviewed, ask about the flexibility involved in this role.

Our Values

Our stakeholders expect us to act in an ethical and responsible way and this is at the heart of how we conduct our business. Our values support this philosophy, and we seek out and reward behaviours that will make us more sustainable, responsible and successful. Our values are- we succeed together; we do the right thing; we’re trusted and valued;and we’re brave and creative.You’ll hear more about these throughout the interview process.

Our STAR Awards provide a fantastic platform to send a special thank you to a colleague who may have gone above and beyond to help you, and the business succeed, or someone who has been brave and creative with their own approach to how they work. Values orientated, our Recognition Scheme plays a pivotal role in aligning and celebrating our culture and simply wouldn’t exist without colleague participation and input.

Our Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Commitment

We’re committed to investing responsibly and supporting our local communities and charitable organisations. Every colleague is encouraged to take a paid day each calendar year to volunteer for our nominated charities. Internally we are very proud of our four colleague-led engagement groups, who run events/initiatives, that promote our culture and values which is a key part of the life blood of this business.

Role Overview

Role Purpose

The Customer Assurance Team is responsible for supporting the design, testing and continuous improvement of the firm’s first line assurance and control environment, with a strong focus on customer outcomes, governance and operational effectiveness.

The role provides structured assurance across business processes, ensuring risks are identified, controls are effective, and remediation actions are documented tracked and delivered in a timely and controlled manner.

Role Objective

To strengthen the firm’s operational assurance and control environment by delivering high-quality assurance, risk oversight and action tracking, ensuring:

• Effective control testing and assurance across key processes


• Strong risk identification, assessment and mitigation


• Timely delivery of remediation and action management


• Clear and insightful reporting to senior stakeholders and governance forums

How You’ll Make an Impact

Reporting to the Manager of Customer Assurance within Chief Customer Officer function, the Customer Assurance Executive operates across the below items:

Key Accountabilities

• Deliver assurance and control testing programmes to assess customer journey effectiveness across business processes


• Identify and elevate process or control gaps, weaknesses and emerging risks


• Support and coordinate action management across incidents, audits, assurance reviews and RCSA outputs


• Provide oversight and support for Risk & Control Self-Assessments (RCSA)


• Produce high-quality MI and reporting for SLT, ExCo and Board committees


• Collaborate with business teams to ensure processes and associated controls are consistently applied and embedded across al customer journeys


• Support the development and maintenance of policies, procedures and governance frameworks


• Drive a culture of continuous improvement and strong customer outcomes

Core Activities

1. Control Assurance & Testing

• Execute control testing across key operational and customer processes


• Assess control design adequacy and operating effectiveness


• Deliver assurance reviews across customer interactions (written, verbal and system-based)


• Identify opportunities to standardise and harmonise controls across teams


• Support delivery and completion of Risk & Control Self-Assessments


• Guide business owners in identifying and documenting risks and controls


• Monitor and track risk assessments, updates and deadlines


• Ensure visibility of key risks to senior management and governance forums

3. Action Management & Remediation

• Track and manage actions arising from incidents, audits, CMP and assurance reviews


• Ensure timely delivery of remediation activities


• Escalate overdue or high-risk actions appropriately


• Support root cause analysis and ensure sustainable control improvements

4. Policy, Process & Control Framework Support

• Support the development and maintenance of policies and procedures


• Ensure controls are aligned to customer journeys and operational processes


• Maintain alignment between process changes and assurance frameworks

5. Reporting & Stakeholder Engagement

• Produce monthly and ad hoc reporting on control effectiveness and risk exposure


• Provide clear, structured insights to SLT, ExCo and Board committees


• Engage with stakeholders across first and second line teams


• Act as a key link between operational teams, risk and governance functions

The core activities are supplemented by the below:

• Ensure all assurance activities support fair and consistent customer outcomes


• Identify risks that may impact customer treatment or service quality


• Promote a culture of accountability, integrity and control awareness


• Demonstrate a strong commitment to customer-first principles

Expertise

• Excellent knowledge of financial services in Ireland specifically experience in retail customer credit servicing and its associate regulations (including for Credit Servicing and Consumer Protection).


• Experience in operational risk, assurance, or control environments within financial services


• Strong understanding of risk and control frameworks (RCSA, assurance, audit)


• Excellent analytical skills and attention to detail


• Strong stakeholder engagement and communication capability


• Ability to manage multiple workstreams and competing priorities


• Experience producing MI and reporting for senior stakeholders


• Strong focus on customer outcomes and regulatory compliance

Central Bank of Ireland (“CBI”) Fitness & Probity Regime

This is a Controlled Function (“CF”) role as defined by the Central Bank Reform Act 2010 . For CF roles, appointment will be conditional on Mars Capital being fully satisfied that the appointee meets the requirements as set out in the Fitness and Probity Standards issued by the Central Bank of Ireland. In the case of proposed appointees to Pre-Approval Control Functions, this includes prior approval by the CBI of such appointments.