Urgent Search! CASS Operations Manager - Exclusive Mandate...

Job Description This is a new role to support increasing complexity and scale of a business. The firm is looking to recruit an experience CASS manager with excellent technical skills and experience to build a stand alone CASS function Please note that attendance in the office is essential Monday-Friday Key Responsibilities – Review and expand existing CASS policies and procedures – Maintain the CASS framework including FCA rule mapping and controls to ensure compliance with CASS rules at all times – Managing CASS relations with the FCA – Document and report any CASS breaches – Advise on CASS Risk – assist in ICARA preparation and sit on Risk Committee – Draft and review Due Diligence on key counterparties, ensuring it is kept up to date – Day to Day – perform CASS reconciliations of money and assets, reviewing shortfalls and reconciliation breaks, developing CASS reconciliations and controls – Weekly report to Exco on CASS matters – Maintenance of CASS Breach Register – Produce MI for stakeholders – Own and manage a CASS monitoring programme – Maintaining an up-to-date and thorough knowledge of the CASS rules and associated industry changes – Taking initiatives to strengthen systems and controls to improve operational efficiency and reduce the incidence of errors and breaches – Identifying where technology can be leveraged to further automate reconciliations, CASS records, audit trails and other recurring tasks You must have broad CASS knowledge and be happy working in a small , but ambitious firm