Control Room Manager

Role overview

Key responsibilities

• Manage complex transactional and employee conflicts using risk-based judgement; establish and monitor effective information barriers.
• Control confidential and inside information flows between private-side and public-side businesses.
• Provide data-led market-abuse and conflicts risk oversight and advice across functions and franchises.
• Advise bank-wide control teams on Control Room policies, systems and processes.
• Identify emerging risks and control gaps through management information, stakeholder engagement and horizon scanning.
• Escalate significant issues, support remediation, and provide regulatory and policy advice, including input into local procedures.
• Improve and simplify processes and controls, including through automation.

Requirements

• Strong compliance advisory background and technical market-abuse regulation knowledge from a control room or compliance background.
• Understand anti-bribery and corruption legislation in banking and have technical investment banking expertise.
• Experience in second-line business risk oversight, especially conflicts; knowledge of regulatory oversight and enforcement frameworks.
• Experience analysing complex issues, prioritising demands, making balanced risk decisions and defining policies, controls and risk frameworks.
• Strong judgement, stakeholder management and pragmatic commercial risk management; manage workflow to deadlines.
• CISI Compliance & Risk certification is not essential; if successful, begin the pathway within one month of joining.

Relevant capabilities

• Interest in process improvement, data-led oversight and technology-enabled compliance solutions.

Pay and benefits

• The employer describes base pay, pension funding and benefit funding as monthly; compensation amount is not stated.
• Annual leave is 30 days, with an opportunity to purchase up to five additional days; volunteering and training leave are also listed.

Working pattern

• Full-time, permanent role.

Workplace

• Hybrid arrangement: some work from home and regular time at an office or hub.