Senior Trading Controls Consultant - 1LoD Controls...

Role: Senior Trading Controls Consultant
Location: UK hybrid
Timelines: May - December 2026

Vantage Point Global is supporting a major financial services client with a programme of review, remediation and uplift across its Trading Controls environment.

This role will support client-led remediation activity across Group Corporate Treasury and Business & Commercial Banking, helping to strengthen control standards, close gaps, and embed a more consistent 1st Line of Defence control framework.

We are looking for a senior, hands-on controls practitioner with strong investment banking experience, particularly across markets trading controls, control design, remediation and implementation. This role would suit someone who can bring peer-bank best practice, operate effectively under client direction, and engage confidently with senior stakeholders, including executive-level audiences.

What you will be doing

• Review the existing Trading Controls environment and identify gaps, weaknesses and areas for uplift.

• Support the design, documentation and implementation of controls to close identified gaps.

• Work across 1st Line of Defence control frameworks, helping to improve consistency, quality and effectiveness.

• Support remediation activity across Group Corporate Treasury and Business & Commercial Banking.

• Bring practical peer-bank insight into how controls are designed, evidenced and embedded in comparable investment banking environments.

• Work closely with senior client stakeholders to understand current control challenges, agree remediation actions and support delivery.

• Produce clear, high-quality control documentation, including control descriptions, process mapping, remediation outputs and supporting evidence.

• Help ensure controls are practical, sustainable and aligned to wider governance, risk and regulatory expectations.

• Operate as an embedded client-side resource, working collaboratively with business, risk, control and transformation teams.

What we are looking for

• Around 7 to 10 years’ experience in global investment banking controls, risk, governance or front-office control environments.

• Strong experience in 1st Line of Defence controls design, implementation and uplift.

• Good understanding of Markets Trading Controls and the risks associated with trading activity.

• Experience delivering control remediation, control enhancement or control framework uplift at a peer investment bank.

• Strong understanding of how front-office, treasury, trading, risk and control environments operate.

• Ability to identify control gaps and translate findings into clear, practical remediation actions.

• Experience documenting controls, control standards, governance processes and remediation plans.

• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the confidence and gravitas to work with senior leaders and executives.

• Comfortable operating in complex, fast-moving environments where priorities, dependencies and governance requirements may shift.

• Able to work independently while remaining aligned to client direction, standards and delivery expectations.

Nice to haves

• Experience across Group Treasury, Corporate Treasury, Business Banking or Commercial Banking environments.

• Exposure to regulatory remediation, audit findings, control testing or assurance-led change.

• Experience working in consultancy, managed service or embedded client-side delivery models.

• Familiarity with large UK banking environments and group-wide control standards.

How to apply

If you have strong investment banking controls experience and enjoy turning control gaps into clear, practical remediation activity, we would love to hear from you.

Vantage Point Global is a fully committed Equal Opportunities, inclusive employer. We are passionate about attracting diverse talent and welcome applications from candidates regardless of ethnicity, culture, age, gender, nationality, religion, disability, or sexual orientation.

To apply, you’ll need to provide us with a CV and answer a few questions.

We’d like to let you know that if you have not heard back from us within 3 weeks of the application date, we will not be progressing your application.