CASS Governance Director

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Salary: Market rate negotiable

  • Location: London
  • Category: Finance
  • Job Ref: MH1111L4008

Summary

A leading investment bank is looking for a CASS Governance Director to provide, implement and ensure ongoing compliance across the firm's Client Assets processes, with specific focus on compliance with the FSA CASS rules. Ensuring appropriate accountability frameworks are implemented as well as governance and, where appropriate escalation, and remediation of issues

Responsibilities

- Facilitate the implementation of the group FSA CASS governance structure

- Compiling and managing the quarterly oversight and attestation scorecards

- Delivering CASS Business unit steering committees

- Chairing the Business unit coordination committees

- Provide updates and timely escalation to the relevant governing bodies

- Understanding and documenting issues identified through reviews and BAU process

- Syndicate and agree the impact of issues and escalate as appropriate

- Managing and delivering solutions to ensure the strategic control framework and models are delivered as well as any remedial action required for issues

- Managing the performance of regular quality assurance on the CASS processes

- Development and delivery of management metrics

- Input and influencing future regulation changes

Experience / Skills

Experience required:

- Proven operational experience of FSA CASS rules and the operational implementation of these

- Proven experience in senior management governance

- Proven control focus, business understanding and analysis capability and regulatory knowledge.

Skills & knowledge:

- Regulatory experience and industry knowledge

- Ability to communicate both written and verbally effectively

- Well organised and structured approach including ability to deliver to deadlines

- Attention to Detail

- Analytical Approach

Candidate Profile:

- Working well as part of a team

- Ability to work with and influence senior management

Contact

Mike Hartwell

Direct: +44 (0)20 7469 6441

Email: mikehartwell@hartwellbuck.com