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About the Role
This role supports risk and control activity across the first line, including performing assurance testing and working with business owners to address identified issues. It involves improving the oversight of operational risks and bringing risk and control subject matter expertise to partner with business owners to proactively identify, assess, and mitigate risks.
Responsibilities
- Perform controls assurance testing across 1LOD, documenting results clearly, agreeing remediation actions where appropriate, and partnering with 1LOD to help maintain a well understood and documented control environment.
- Support good risk and control behaviours by helping employees understand their role in managing risk and the importance of an effective control framework.
- Support the development and implementation of a robust risk and control approach to mitigate operational and compliance risks.
- Identify and deliver best practices in control standards across CLS and support the business in the identification of risks and controls, including through business process mapping.
- Partner with business units, Operational Risk Management, compliance and audit teams to enhance risk culture.
- Support internal audit and compliance testing engagements and work with the business to review the findings and define actions.
- Contribute to training and awareness programs on risk management and control best practices.
- Represent CCO in working groups as required.
- Support the development of CLS’s testing strategy and methodology by contributing practical insight from control testing activity.
- Identify and deliver best practices in testing and control standards across CLS, engaging with the wider risk and controls teams to support continuous improvement.
Requirements
- The role would suit candidates with 2LOD/3LOD experience looking for an opportunity to move into 1LOD, or candidates with 1LOD control/ control remediation/ validation experience.
- Proven experience of risk assessment, controls assurance testing and control delivery/remediation, from a business / embedded risk function, 2LOD/3LOD, external audit or 1LOD ownership perspective.
- Ability to assess, design, and enhance control environments and to drive a risk-aware culture across business units.
- Strong problem-solving skills, with a proactive approach to risk mitigation.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Attention to detail is essential, demonstrating high standards to the control and oversight of risk.
- Knowledge of Financial Services, Financial Markets Utilities or another highly regulated industry sector is preferred.
- Ability to understand how individual control activities, testing results and remediation actions contribute to the wider risk and control environment.
- Strong stakeholder management skills, with the confidence and judgement to engage credibly with senior stakeholders, including EMC members, and to communicate testing outcomes and control matters clearly.
- Ability to provide constructive challenge, speak up where control weaknesses are identified, and support practical improvements to processes and controls.
- Takes professional pride in delivering high-quality testing, clear documentation and practical recommendations that help address root cause issues.
- Build effective working relationships with multiple internal and external stakeholders, bringing different viewpoints together as appropriate.
- Able to work through ambiguity, asking the right questions and escalating appropriately to agree a practical way forward.
Skills
- Proficient IT skills in Word, Excel, PowerPoint.
Location
- London
Work Type
- Hybrid working
- Flexible working
Experience Level
- Director
Education Level
- Qualifications in Risk Management, Internal Audit, Compliance, or Project Management would be beneficial but not essential.
Benefits
- 25 holiday days and 3 ‘life days’ (in addition to bank holidays) for UK/Asia employees.
- 23 holiday days for US employees.
- 2 paid volunteer days.
- Generous parental leave policies.
- Parental transition coaching programmes and support services.
- Wellbeing and mental health support resources.
- Employee Networks (including Women’s Forum, Black Employee Network and Pride Network).
- Monthly ‘Heads Down Days’ with no meetings across the whole company.
- Generous non-contributory pension provision for UK/Asia employees.
- 401K match from CLS for US employees.
- Private medical insurance and dental coverage.
- Social events.
- Annual flu vaccinations.
- Discounts and savings and cashback across a wide range of categories including health and retail for UK employees.
- Discounted Gym membership – Complete Body Gym Discount/Sweat equity program for US employees.
- Access to Discover – our comprehensive learning platform with 1000+ courses from LinkedIn Learning.
- Access to frequent development sessions on a number of topics to help you be successful and develop your career at CLS.
About the Company
- CLS is the trusted party at the centre of the global FX ecosystem, making FX safer, smoother and more cost effective.
- Utilized by thousands of counterparties, CLS’s unrivalled global settlement infrastructure reduces systemic risk and provides standardization for participants in many of the world’s most actively traded currencies.
- CLS products are designed to enable clients to manage risk most effectively across the full FX lifecycle.
- Our ambition to make a positive difference starts with our people. Our values underpin everything that we do at CLS and define our working environment: Pivotal purpose, Trusted guardian, Targeted innovation, Facilitate connections, Delivering excellence, Inclusive culture.
Equal Opportunity
- At CLS, we celebrate inclusion and consider this to be one of our strongest assets. We are committed to fostering an environment in which everyone feels comfortable to be who they are, and inclusion is valued.