Senior Client Asset Risk & Controls Consultant

Matrix Recruitment Group; Leinster; On-site; EUR 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Matrix Recruitment Group in Dublin, Ireland, seeks an experienced Client Asset Oversight Senior Advisor for a six-month contract. The role involves providing specialist regulatory expertise to enhance governance, risk management and control effectiveness under the Head of Client Asset Oversight.

This advisory assignment is not a PCF appointment or an operational client asset management role, but focuses on independent challenge and practical recommendations to strengthen regulatory compliance

Qualifications

• Significant senior-level experience in client asset oversight or related regulatory assurance.
• Experience advising on regulatory frameworks and governance improvements.
• Strong analytical and written communication skills.
• Proven ability to challenge processes and deliver practical recommendations.

Responsibilities

• Assess the design and maturity of client asset framework against regulatory requirements.
• Review risk assessments, control frameworks and mapping for effectiveness.
• Evaluate key client asset documentation and governance reporting.
• Provide independent regulatory and control expertise to reviews and remediation efforts.
• Identify opportunities for automation and improved controls.

Skills

Client asset oversight

Regulatory compliance

Governance

Risk management

Stakeholder management

Job description

What you need to know

We are recruiting an experienced Client Asset Oversight Senior Advisor for a six-month contract with an established global financial services organisation 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.

Key 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, as well as client asset breaches, materiality assessments, root cause analysis and remediation effectiveness.
• Provide independent regulatory and control expertise to operational process reviews, identifying opportunities for automation and improved controls, and deliver practical recommendations to strengthen regulatory compliance, governance and oversight.

Requirements:

• 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, and reviewing client asset governance, regulatory documentation and management information. Strong analytical, written communication and stakeholder management skills.