Information Barriers Consultant

G MASS; New York (NY); On-site; USD 184,500 - 202,950; Full time

Job summary

G MASS is seeking an Information Barriers Consultant in New York to manage a mature information barriers programme within a leading global financial services firm. This role offers substantial ownership of the programme, allowing you to engage across various teams and ensure compliance with established controls.

The successful candidate will have experience in compliance and access governance, managing a robust workload while working closely with senior stakeholders. This is a long-term position with the potential for permanent employment after the initial contract.

Qualifications

• Direct experience managing an information barriers programme is strongly preferred.
• Experience within a regulated financial services environment is advantageous.
• Highly organised with the ability to manage a broad, concurrent BAU workload.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end management of the firm's information barrier controls.
• Coordinate the addition of new information barriers across systems and teams.
• Monitor daily exception reports and investigate anomalies.
• Manage physical IB controls including badge and door access.
• Conduct annual audits of Compliance Firewall groups.

Skills

Information barriers management

Compliance operations

Access governance

Organizational skills

Stakeholder management

Tools

JIRA

Job description

G MASS are seeking an Information Barriers Consultant to join the Legal & Compliance function of a leading global financial services firm, operating across both its hedge fund and broker-dealer entities.

This is an embedded, programme ownership role. The successful candidate will take full day-to-day ownership of a well-established information barriers programme, running it independently from day one. The programme is mature with strong controls and significant automation already in place; the new hire will inherit a functioning operation rather than build one from scratch. The role requires someone assertive enough to chase resolution across a large organisation, comfortable engaging engineers and technology teams on systems and access management, and organised enough to manage a broad and varied BAU workload concurrently. This is not a short-term assignment: significant institutional knowledge is required, and the end goal is for the successful candidate to own the programme outright.

You'll be joining a close-knit three-person compliance team at one of the most prominent names in global finance, with genuine long-term progression on offer. After year one, there is the opportunity to convert to a full-time employee. The role is based five days per week on-site in Midtown, New York.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end management of the firm's information barrier controls across both the hedge fund and broker-dealer entities, ensuring all controls remain accurate and fit for purpose
• Coordinate the addition of new information barriers across systems and teams, following an established playbook and ensuring all relevant parties are engaged through to completion
• Monitor daily exception reports, investigating anomalies with system owners and determining whether activity constitutes a breach or misconfiguration
• Administer electronic IB controls across Active Directory, Unix groups, JIRA, SharePoint, and service accounts, ensuring access permissions accurately reflect barrier configurations
• Manage physical IB controls including badge and door access, floor and building separation, and weekly desk move approvals
• Oversee the employee transfer nuking process, reviewing transfers across divisions, assessing whether an information barrier is crossed, and deactivating and reissuing system access accordingly
• Administer new department IB assignments, reviewing and approving barrier configurations for new teams as they are created
• Manage the Shared Resources Dashboard, tracking technology infrastructure shared between the hedge fund and broker-dealer entities, reviewing new requests, maintaining existing entries, and removing resources no longer in use
• Review and approve new software requests from a compliance perspective, as one of three reviewers alongside information security and engineering
• Administer entitlements across the Legal and Compliance function, ensuring access rights are granted at the appropriate level within internal access management systems
• Conduct annual audits of Compliance Firewall groups and the Shared Resources Dashboard on a sampling basis to confirm controls remain fit for purpose
• Perform periodic testing of IB Active Directory and Unix groups to verify that technical controls are functioning as intended
• Track workstreams and report on team accomplishments to senior leadership via JIRA, and act as a central coordination figure within the team

Qualifications

• Direct experience managing an information barriers programme is strongly preferred; control room, compliance operations, access governance, or identity and access management backgrounds are all considered
• Experience within a regulated financial services environment; hedge fund or broker-dealer background is advantageous but not required
• Comfortable engaging engineers and technology teams on systems architecture, logical access separation, and entitlement configuration without needing a technical background
• Proven ability to operate with persistence across a large, matrixed organisation, chasing resolution from senior and diverse stakeholders across business, technology, risk, and operations
• Highly organised with the ability to manage a broad, concurrent BAU workload without dropping detail
• Confident enough to flag violations and hold the line on compliance requirements across the firm
• Familiarity with JIRA is advantageous but not essential

Pay: $1,000-1,100/d

Length: initial 12-months, with the potential to be made permanent