Control Room Manager

Role overview

Workplace

• The role is hybrid, with time working from home and regular attendance at an office or hub.
• Normal working days must be carried out in the United Kingdom.

Control Room and risk oversight

• Identify and manage complex transactional and employee conflicts using risk-based judgement.
• Establish, monitor, and oversee information barriers and control confidential and inside information flows between private- and public-side businesses.
• Provide data-led advice on market abuse and conflicts risk across functions and franchises.
• Advise bank-wide control teams on Control Room policies, systems, and processes.
• Use management information, stakeholder engagement, and horizon scanning to identify emerging risks and control gaps.
• Escalate significant issues to senior compliance management and coordinate remediation.
• Provide regulatory and policy advice to employees, including input into local business procedures.
• Drive continuous improvement, simplification, and automation of Control Room controls and processes.

Required experience and knowledge

• Strong compliance advisory background and market abuse regulation knowledge from a Control Room or compliance setting.
• Understanding of anti-bribery and corruption legislation and its interaction with banking activities.
• Investment banking expertise, sound judgement, stakeholder management, and commercially balanced risk management.
• Second-line business risk oversight experience, particularly relating to conflicts.
• Knowledge of regulatory oversight and enforcement frameworks and horizon-scanning best practice.
• Experience analysing complex issues, prioritising demands, making risk-based decisions, and defining policies, controls, and risk frameworks.
• Ability to manage personal workflow to deadlines.

Certification

• CISI Compliance & Risk certification is not essential; successful candidates are expected to begin the certification pathway within one month of joining.

Pay and leave information

• The source describes base pay as paid every month and mentions monthly pension and benefit funding; no salary amount is provided.
• The source states 30 days of annual leave, with the option to purchase up to five additional days, plus three volunteering days and three training days.