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About the Role
G MASS is seeking an Information Barriers Consultant to manage and own a mature information barriers programme within a leading global financial services firm. This role requires independent operation, strong engagement skills with technology teams, and meticulous organisation to handle a varied workload. The position offers genuine long-term progression, with the potential for conversion to a full-time employee after the initial 12-month contract.
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.
Requirements
- 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.
Skills
- Information Barriers Programme Management
- Active Directory
- Unix groups
- JIRA
- SharePoint
- Service Accounts
- Access Management
- Compliance Operations
- Access Governance
- Identity and Access Management
- Systems Architecture
- Logical Access Separation
- Entitlement Configuration
- Stakeholder Engagement
- Workload Management
- Compliance Auditing
- Technical Control Testing
Location
- Midtown, New York
Work Type
- On-site
- Contract
- Full-time potential
Experience Level
- Programme ownership experience
- Experience in a regulated financial services environment
Salary/Compensations
- $1,000-1,100/day
Benefits
- Potential to convert to full-time employee after year one
About the Company
- A leading global financial services firm, operating across both its hedge fund and broker-dealer entities.
- A close-knit three-person compliance team.
- One of the most prominent names in global finance.