Business Controls Specialist in London

We are looking for a Business Controls Specialist to manage a variety of tasks and projects across a wide range of audit and regulatory work. You\’ll work alongside seasoned colleagues across the firm, helping to coordinate responses to external stakeholders—including auditors, regulators and clients—regarding our firm\’s processes and controls.

As our firm continues to grow, you\’ll assist with highlighting the risks inherent to specific processes arising from Jane Street\’s business activities by performing gap analyses, including documenting and assessing existing and proposed processes, workflows and controls.

The right person for this role will enjoy working with people and documentation, and be able to explain processes, risks and controls clearly to external parties, tailoring information granularity to suit the audience\’s needs. Your previous industry expertise will be valuable to the team as we collaborate with outside auditors and advisors.

Additional responsibilities of the role will include:

Facilitating communication between internal departments and external parties for various projects, including exchange memberships, business process and technology audits, regulatory inquiries and client due diligence requests

Preparing risk and control inventories, process documentation, presentation materials and routine correspondence

Clearly labelling, filing and organising document submissions for subsequent retrieval and reference

Assessing processes and workflows to determine whether regulatory standards and industry best practices have been met

Designing audit test procedures to independently validate documented adherence to internal policy requirements

About You

Have 3-5 years of experience in a similar role, for example in:

Process/controls design and implementation (e.g., in response to new regulation)

Business process and system controls assurance (e.g., application level and general technology controls audits)

Operational risk management and compliance

Familiar with the auditing process and experienced with participating in audits

Self-starter who can handle competing priorities and work effectively and efficiently in a challenging, fast-paced environment

Organised with excellent attention to detail

Clear, comprehensive and concise communicator

Enjoy writing and maintaining good documentation

Able to build strong collaborative relationships across various groups within the firm

Reliable and flexible team player with a positive attitude

Self-motivated to share knowledge and improve processes as appropriate

Strong analytical and critical thinker; have a \”can-do\” attitude when resolving issues

Ideally familiar with Jira (but not required)

If you\’re a recruiting agency and want to partner with us, please reach out to agency-partnerships@janestreet.com.

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