Senior Client Asset Risk & Controls Consultant

Matrix Recruitment Group; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 85,000 - 125,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working models available

Job summary

Matrix Recruitment Group is seeking an experienced Senior Client Asset Risk & Controls Consultant for a six-month contract in Dublin. You will provide regulatory expertise, challenge governance, and offer practical recommendations to strengthen controls.

You will collaborate with senior stakeholders across Risk, Compliance and Operations, delivering independent insights and identifying opportunities for improvement within the client asset framework. Hybrid working is available.

Qualifications

• Significant senior-level experience in client asset oversight or related domains.
• Experience in a Head of Client Asset Oversight or advisory capacity.
• Strong knowledge of the CBI Client Asset Requirements.
• Practical understanding of client money, custody assets, reconciliations, segregation, breaches.
• Experience assessing regulatory frameworks and control design/effectiveness.
• Experience reviewing client asset governance and management information.
• Strong analytical and stakeholder management skills.

Responsibilities

• Assess design and maturity of the client asset framework against CBI requirements.
• Review regulatory mapping, risk assessments and control frameworks.
• Evaluate client asset documentation including matrices and policies.
• Review client asset governance and reporting to senior management and boards.
• Assess client asset breaches and remediation effectiveness.
• Provide independent regulatory and control insights to process reviews.
• Deliver practical recommendations to strengthen compliance and governance.

Skills

Client asset oversight

Regulatory compliance

Risk assessment

Governance & controls

Stakeholder engagement

Job description

What You Need to Know:

We are recruiting an experienced Senior Client Asset Risk & Controls Consultant for a six-month contract with an established global financial services organization based in Dublin.

Working closely with the Head of Client Asset Oversight, you will provide specialist regulatory expertise, independent challenge and practical recommendations to enhance governance, risk management and control effectiveness.

This is an advisory assignment, not a PCF appointment or an operational client asset management role.

Hybrid working models available.

Your New Job:

You will undertake a comprehensive assessment of the organisation’s client asset framework, reviewing regulatory compliance, risk and control mapping, governance arrangements and breach management processes.

You will work with senior stakeholders across Risk, Compliance and Operations, providing independent insight into the effectiveness of existing arrangements and identifying opportunities for improvement.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• Assess the design and maturity of the client asset framework against CBI Client Asset Requirements and industry best practice.
• Review regulatory mapping, risk assessments and control frameworks, challenging the completeness and effectiveness of existing controls.
• Evaluate key client asset documentation, including regulatory applicability matrices, management plans, policies and procedures.
• Review client asset governance and reporting to senior management, Risk Committees and the Board.
• Assess client asset breaches, materiality assessments, root cause analysis and remediation effectiveness.
• Provide independent regulatory and control expertise to operational process reviews, including opportunities for automation and improved controls.
• Deliver clear, practical recommendations to strengthen regulatory compliance, governance and oversight.

What Are We Looking For?

• Significant senior-level experience in client asset oversight, custody, safeguarding, regulatory compliance or assurance.
• Experience in a Head of Client Asset Oversight, senior client asset regulatory assurance or specialist advisory capacity would be particularly relevant.
• Strong working knowledge of the CBI Client Asset Requirements and associated regulatory expectations.
• Practical understanding of client money, custody assets, reconciliations, segregation, shortfalls and breach management.
• Proven experience assessing regulatory frameworks, risk-to-control mapping, control design and effectiveness.
• Experience reviewing client asset governance, regulatory documentation and management information.
• Strong analytical, written communication and stakeholder management skills.