Control Risks

Threat Intelligence Specialist

• Control Risks is looking to hire a Security Intelligence Analyst to support a premier client of ours.
• The Security Intelligence Analyst will be a key member of the Global Security Intelligence team as they collect, curate, and disseminate current and forecasted risk intelligence in a timely manner to partners and stakeholders.
• This position will also work to edit and compile written analysis by the Junior Analysts.
• Monitor and analyze geopolitical and global events identify and assess threats to the client’s specific global operations, assets, and personnel.
• Provide major event safety and security assessments, forecasts, and vulnerability reports.
• Oversee production of analysis by the Junior Analysts on the team.
• Conduct site and travel vulnerability assessments to ensure the safety of the client’s employees and locations.
• Support location-specific intelligence, including active and archived alerts; city and country intelligence; and interactive maps.
• Drafting comprehensive, well-researched, and articulate analysis products providing tailored research for client-specific needs.
• Define priorities for in-depth analysis of selected locations relevant to the client’s global interests.
• Lead production of specific briefings or presentations.
• Other responsibilities may develop with program growth

Security Intelligence Analyst

Product Manager

• Reporting to the Head of Product and working in close collaboration with them on strategy and direction, you will act as the primary product owner for areas of our platform.
• You will own discovery, delivery, and the day-to-day rhythm of shipping, partnering closely with engineering, architecture, and design.
• The scope is real, the team is supportive, and your work will shape how thousands of compliance and risk professionals do theirs.
• Run structured customer interviews with compliance officers, due diligence researchers, and risk teams to understand what works, what does not, and what should exist next.
• Translate findings into clear opportunities, tested assumptions, and well-framed problems for the team to work on.
• Bring evidence rather than opinion to roadmap and prioritisation discussions.
• Own the product backlog: write user stories with acceptance criteria that engineers can build from.
• Run sprint planning, refinement, and review for your product area, in close collaboration with engineering and design.
• Ship release notes, and internal change communications that keep commercial, support, and operations in the loop.
• Work on workflow heavy features for specialist users (compliance researchers, analysts, reviewers), where the product earns its place by removing friction from real work.
• Specify API integrations between our platform and third-party systems, with clear contracts and a sharp eye for edge cases.
• Balance speed with the reliability and auditability demands of a regulated domain.
• Work on features where AI is in the loop: knowledge graph queries, document analysis, vendor screening, risk evaluation.
• Use AI tools actively in your own workflow: research synthesis, story drafting, competitive analysis, data shaping.
• Be willing to get your hands dirty with AI tools across the whole product workflow: prototyping flows, mocking up designs, even shipping rough features for internal testing. We want someone who treats their own way of working as a product to optimise.

Security Engineer

• - Security Integration: Embed a security culture into the design, development, and deployment of technical security systems to ensure robust protection against threats.
• - Risk Assessment: Conduct thorough risk and vulnerability assessments of technical security systems to identify potential security risks and implement appropriate mitigation strategies.
• - Compliance: Ensure all systems comply with relevant security standards, regulations, and best practices.
• - Collaboration: Work closely with cross-functional teams, including software developers, hardware engineers, and IT security professionals, to ensure a cohesive security strategy.
• - Security Reviews: Conduct regular security reviews and audits of systems to ensure ongoing compliance and identify areas for improvement.
• - Documentation: Maintain comprehensive documentation of security policies, procedures, and incident reports related to technical security systems.
• - Innovation: Stay up to date with the latest security trends, technologies, and threats, and continuously seek innovative ways to enhance the functionality of systems.
• - Technical Design and Implementation: Act as a liaison to company's sites and offices in the areas of technical design and implementation of security systems, including commissioning of said systems.
• - Standards Development: Develop standards and guidelines for physical security and security systems for sites.
• - Corrective Actions: Advise on corrective actions to upgrade technical posture of sites through coordination with Facility Security Leads/Security Manager (where one is assigned).
• - Vulnerability Assessments: Conduct technical security vulnerability assessments and coordinate recommendations and implementations of corrective security measures as directed.

Physical Security Systems Manager

Financial Planning and Analysis

• Act as the primary finance partner to the Chief Operating Officer and Operations leadership team, supporting a newly formed Operations function as areas of focus, governance, and accountability continue to evolve.
• Partner with the COO to shape clarity on the Operations remit, translating strategic intent into prioritized, financially grounded initiatives.
• Provide proactive commercial insight and challenge to identify and deliver operational efficiencies, cost optimisation, and scalable opportunities across the firm.
• Support the COO in distinguishing between structural cost, discretionary spend, and investment activity, ensuring decisions are aligned to long term value creation.
• Work closely with Procurement to support firm wide procurement reviews, providing financial insight on supplier spend, value for money, and commercial terms.
• Lead financial analysis to identify efficiency opportunities across Operations, including process simplification, automation, and changes to ways of working.
• Partner with leadership to support premises optimisation, including space utilisation, location strategy, and cost to serve considerations.
• Quantify and track efficiency benefits, ensuring opportunities identified translate into tangible outcomes reflected in plans and forecasts.
• Support the COO in understanding root causes of delayed or inefficient billing, distinguishing between operational, commercial, and behavioural drivers.
• Ensure that billing performance and risks are transparent, measurable, and actively managed, with clear KPIs and regular insight provided to senior Operations and Finance leadership.
• Translate financial performance into clear actions and decisions (e.g., spend freezes, reforecasting, reprioritization), tracking delivery against agreed plans.
• Ensure strong financial governance across Corporate Functions (accrual discipline, cost centre hygiene, spend approval adherence), partnering with function owners to resolve issues early.
• Work alongside FP&A team to ensure that reporting for assigned divisions is in line with strategic objectives.
• Proactive engagement with stakeholders on ad-hoc analysis/reporting.
• Work alongside FP&A to deliver the Operations and Corporate Functions budget and quarterly forecasts, ensuring assumptions are robust, transparent, and aligned to efficiency plans.
• Work alongside Operations and Corporate Functions to ensure submissions on cost, headcount, and investment plans are realistic and prioritised.
• Ensure senior Operations and Corporate Function leaders are fully briefed and accountable for their financial plans and outcomes.
• As a member of the Global Finance team, you are expected to identify and implement efficiency and value improvements.
• Work with Financial Control to ensure the integrity of the financial data supplied is robust and accurate.
• Contribute to the calibration and creation of commercial financial controls policies and coordinate proper policy interpretation and execution in the region.

Senior Commercial Finance Business Partner – Operations, Corporate Functions

• A strategic Finance professional who serves as the point of contact for Partners and senior stakeholders, providing expertise in commercial finance, profitability initiatives, and comprehensive performance analysis.
• This role will serve as primary commercial finance point of contact for the Chief Revenue Officer and Chief Digital Information Officer.
• Foster a culture of collaboration, innovation and One Firm behaviors.
• Collaborate with fellow Commercial Finance Business Partners to ensure alignment between Service Line objectives and Group Revenue Office priorities.
• Embed the use of Artificial Intelligence across Finance and the wider firm to enhance insight, efficiency, and decision making.
• Be primary finance point of contract for Group Revenue Office.
• Work alongside senior management team within Clients & Markets to establish commercial framework, including but not limited to effective KPIs.
• Support Clients & Markets in rebalancing focus from revenue growth to sustainable profitability, margin improvement, and improved working capital.
• Provide commercial challenge on growth initiatives, go to market plans, and investment decisions to ensure profitability is embedded from the outset.
• Partner with GRO leadership team to support disciplined management of client portfolio, with particular focus on client tail, low return segments, and non strategic activity.
• Lead analysis and insight on revenue quality, margin drivers, pricing effectiveness, discounting behaviour.
• Translate financial insight into clear commercial actions for Partners and sales leaders, not retrospective explanation.
• Identify where fee earners are spending time on non fee generating or operational activity with a view of supporting interventions that shift focus toward client delivery, sales, and high value work.
• Support Marketing in stopping or reshaping low value activity and reallocating spend toward initiatives that demonstrably support profitable growth.
• Use data, insight, and influence to change behaviours, not just report outcomes.
• Work alongside other Commercial Finance Business Partners to ensure that GRO objectives are aligned with Service Line’s objectives.
• Support the development of robust business cases for AI initiatives, clearly articulating expected efficiency gains, capacity released, cost avoidance vs hard savings, implementation risks and dependencies.
• Help establish clear value tracking mechanisms, ensuring benefits are measured and revisited post implementation rather than assumed.
• Challenge low impact or duplicative initiatives, supporting leadership in prioritising resources on the highest value use cases.
• Work alongside other Commercial Finance Business Partners to identify opportunities to drive adoption of AI in working practices.
• Work alongside FP&A team to ensure that reporting for assigned divisions is in line with strategic objectives.
• Proactive engagement with stakeholders on ad-hoc analysis/reporting.
• Ensure that Partners are thoroughly briefed on the planning process, empowering them to own their numbers and obtain Head of Division sign off prior to formal submission.
• Work alongside the FP&A team in delivery of the budget and subsequent quarterly forecast.
• Review / challenge business submissions and ensure that plans remain balanced between risks and opportunities.
• Ownership of high quality and insightful Quarterly Business Review material.
• Provide strategic and long-term financial planning support to senior management including capital allocation recommendations.
• As a member of the Global Finance team you are expected to identify and implement efficiency and value improvements, particularly around AI adoption.
• Work with Financial Control to ensure the integrity of the financial data supplied is robust and accurate.
• Contribute to the calibration and creation of commercial financial controls policies and coordinate proper policy.interpretation and execution in the region.
• Develop and roll out any Commercial training initiatives within assigned divisions.

Commercial Finance Business Partner

Operations

• Ensure the timely production of high quality marketing content by managing workflows from Marketing through to Content, Creative, and Digital teams.
• Evaluate incoming briefs for clarity and completeness. Collaborate with Marketing stakeholders to refine briefs, ensuring they are actionable and aligned with Agile delivery principles.
• Maintain and manage the workflow platform. Prioritise tasks based on urgency, business impact, and team capacity, using Agile methodologies to support iterative delivery and continuous improvement.
• Schedule and assign tasks across Content, Creative, and Digital teams, balancing demand with available resources.
• Act as the central point of contact between Marketing and production teams. Ensure all stakeholders are informed of timelines, progress, and any changes to scope or priorities. Steer communications around and adoption of processes and governance.
• Support the ongoing optimisation of the workflow and digital asset management platform through liaison with the platform provider.

Marketing Services Operations Coordinator

Business Operations

• Onboarding new clients in line with internal business requirements
• Provide first level of client task management, processing client orders and recording them in internal system.
• Support the delivery management team with general day-to-day operational tasks and address issues when they arise.
• Assist finance team in local office with client invoicing and administration
• Work with global ops team to support monthly revenue reporting
• Process expenses for Head of Sales (APAC)
• Timesheet reporting
• Support with operational requests from the SDP team
• Assist with the preparation of client contracts and administration
• Generate client reports
• Raising POs for APAC
• Onboarding/off boarding new joiners in APAC/globally
• Ad-hoc tasks when required

Business Operations Associate

General Counsel

• Draft, review, and negotiate commercial contracts, including client service agreements and vendor contracts. You will be expected to join negotiations with internal teams and clients on commercial contracts and other legal agreements, concluding commercial terms to align with company policies and objectives as well as mitigate potential risks involved with specific contract terms.**• Liaise with account managers and regional business line leads, amongst others throughout the company, to ensure correct implementation of all legal guidelines and other policies. You will act as a trusted advisor to the internal stakeholders and make sure that compliance can be ensured.**• Advise on regulatory obligations affecting business across APAC. Ensure compliance with local requirements relating but not limited to data privacy (e.g., PDPA), anti bribery, competition laws. Implement global legal/compliance policies at the regional level and ensure local adaptations where necessary.**• Stay current on relevant industry, commercial, IP, privacy, data, employment, and other laws, regulations, and developments to adapt our commercial processes accordingly.

Commercial Contracts Counsel

• Leads and mentors a team of direct employees and vendors responsible for the physical security of branches, offices, and other facilities within the country.
• On a routine basis, monitors security personnel and security system performance to ensure all security, safety and compliance requirements are met, including service delivery of all security related vendors.
• Devises local procedures for access control, CCTV surveillance and alarm monitoring in alignment with global and local standards.
• Ensures in-country security system maintenance, minor project works and software/hardware upgrades are executed in alignment with bank stakeholder requirements, global and local standards.
• Manages security and safety incidents, follow-up investigation and reporting to all stakeholders.
• Conducts local risk assessments, makes recommendations on physical security measures and implements them in accordance with global and local standards.
• Ensures security training, certification, tests & drills are periodically conducted and records maintained.
• Keeps senior level management informed on key issues, risks and incidents.
• As the Country level leader of physical security you are the key point of contact for operational security matters and will engage all stakeholders through excellent communication and account management skills.

Security Lead

Controller

• Ensure finance control framework within Middle East.
• Review Cardiff Finance Hub activity to ensure accuracy of month end results (P&L and Balance Sheet).
• Review Cardiff Finance Hub operational activity to ensure items are addressed in a timely way (e.g. vendor payments, credit control, etc).
• Regular review of balance sheets ensuring all balances are reconciled and substantiated.
• Stakeholder management with all Middle East Partners.
• Drive improvement in cash collection process within Middle East.
• Reporting to EMEA Financial Controller regularly on Middle East status, as well as promptly on any ad hoc issues.
• Ensuring regional alignment on policies' application and conduct of processes, to drive transparency, reliability and accuracy of financial reporting.
• Ensuring that the Region complies with all statutory and regulatory reporting requirements in a timely manner and to high standard.
• Oversee regional payroll operations, ensuring accurate, timely and compliant payroll processing across Middle East jurisdictions in line with local labor laws, tax regulations and social security requirements.
• Providing oversight, support and advice on local and Group audits and investigations, assuring swiftness of actions.
• Provide input into group tax framework where required.
• Ensure compliance with all direct and indirect taxes, including timely and accurate completion of all tax returns and submissions.
• Contributing to new entities' set up plans to creating optimal solutions.
• Tracking and preparedness for upcoming changes within financial compliance, driven by local laws as well as Group guidance.
• Oversee regional cashflow forecasts to ensure accuracy and optimization of intercompany transfers.
• Striving to always understand and respond to business' needs, while remaining independent, objective and ethical.
• Providing commercial advice, alongside Business Partners, on pricing (including taxes) and financial performance .
• Support EMEA Financial Controller and Group Financial Controller on regional and global initiatives.

Financial Controller – Middle East

Project Manager

• Control Risks is hiring for an embedded Third-Party Resilience Project Manager to support a Fortune 50 technology client.
• Own and manage the global event monitoring and triage workflow using the Resilinc SaaS platform.
• Coordinate with Category Managers to execute annual supplier assessments.
• Maintain and update the supplier database and associated documentation.
• Identify and propose opportunities for program scope expansion in alignment with organizational objectives (OKRs).
• Develop business cases for new program areas.
• Build and report on metrics that quantify 'protected spend' for leadership.
• Recommend and implement process improvements and automation initiatives.
• Independently engage and collaborate with Category Managers.
• Coordinate cross-functionally with teams such as Supplier Assurance, Global Supply Chain, and Information Security.
• Translate complex resilience concepts for non-technical stakeholders.
• Present program updates and recommendations to leadership and executive audiences.

Third Party Resilience Project Manager

• Managing the day-to-day security operations at corporate locations in Korea.
• Drive multiple security projects effectively, including managing key performance indicators, vendor management, and quality control. This will often include liaising with other members of the Enterprise Security or Environmental Health and Safety team to ensure project alignment.
• Where necessary, contextualize and add regional-specific vigor to global programs to further optimize overall program delivery.
• Develop key relationships with corporate real estate teams, landlords, and third-party security vendors, ensuring cohesion across the site’s security and safety functions.
• Develop bespoke training packages in support of the existing guard force.
• Implementation of site incident management procedures.
• Support and liaise with the Environmental Health & Safety/Workplace teams to ensure all EHS standards are maintained across all facilities.
• Ensuring effective communication and reporting to the North East Asia Security Operations Lead, and work towards the standards set by the wider security team.

Physical Security Specialist

Payroll

• Prepare, audit, and process multi-state payroll inputs including new hires, terminations, pay changes, bonuses, commissions, reimbursements, and corrections.
• Review and validate employee timecards prior to payroll submission.
• Administer payroll updates including pay rates, tax elections, deductions, and direct deposit changes.
• Assist with payroll previews, reconciliations, audits, state tax account maintenance and year-end activities such as W-2 processing.
• Maintain payroll documentation and ensure compliance with federal, state, and local regulations.
• Respond to employee payroll and benefit inquiries with a high level of professionalism.
• Maintain payroll process documentation and support continuous improvement initiatives.
• Support annual compliance reporting and audits, including State Pay Data, EEO, 401k Auditing and other state compliance requirements.
• Utilize UKG and related payroll/timekeeping systems.
• Coordinate onboarding and offboarding processes, ensuring accurate system updates.
• Process employee lifecycle changes including transfers, promotions, and status changes.
• Process all employee leave of absence and associated payroll actions.
• Maintain accurate employee records within HR and payroll systems.
• Support performance management processes and employee relations matters in partnership with HR leadership.
• Assist with compliance training tracking, records and required reporting.
• Support HR projects and initiatives across Control Risks in local jurisdictions.
• Participate as a member of our global HR Shared Service team, providing a consistent HR processes across all offices.
• Support benefits enrollments, life events, and terminations.
• Serve as liaison between employees, benefits providers, payroll, and HR.
• Assist during open enrollment and benefits audits.
• Track and process invoices related to benefits and HR vendors.

Payroll and HR Operations Coordinator

• Responsible for the effective, timely and accurate management of the UK & Europe payroll and benefits.
• Managing the monthly payroll process through accurate and timely processing for all employees in line with best practice.
• To be the first point of contact for pay and tax queries.
• Responsibility for the management of the relationship with the payroll providers.
• Collation of monthly UK payroll spreadsheets and uploading the changes to ADP, checking the inputting of the data and ensuring the changes are accurate.
• Collation of monthly European payroll spreadsheets to send to the Finance Manager.
• Primary contact for resolving staff, internal and third-party queries and recommend solutions to payroll issues.
• Prepare and submit monthly and annual year end forms and returns to HMRC in line with RTI requirements and to employees (P11ds and P60s).
• Ensure excellent relationship with the HR generalist team so that there is accurate data/information exchange.
• To be main point of contact for UK benefits including those processed through payroll, the UK Group Pension Plan and the AXA Private Medical Insurance.
• Responding to employee queries regarding all UK benefits.
• Effectively process the cyclical activities in an accurate and timely manner.
• Ensure that employees have easy access to relevant and up to date information and that they are well informed, producing policies and guidelines where necessary.
• To be main point of contact for European benefits and liaising with relevant external payroll providers and instructing them to action benefits such as health insurance and travel expenses.
• Own and deliver assigned projects and priorities in line with deadlines as agreed with the team. Provide pro-active support with ad-hoc tasks where necessary.

Payroll & Benefits Advisor

Manager

• Manage a team of researchers and senior researchers
• Define, for each team member, objectives and responsibilities in line with the practice goals
• Conduct performance reviews
• Ensure well-being and professional development of staff
• Support the Research Manager in recruiting new researchers
• Ensure VANTAGE work is properly scoped, allocated to researchers, tracked and ultimately delivered on time and within budget
• Communicate directly with clients in order to clarify the scope of projects, address questions, and suggest potential additional avenues of research
• Review and approve (content and editorial) VANTAGE work, ensuring projects are of high quality and meet Clients’ specifications
• Liaise with and provide feedback to vendors and subcontractors, ensuring the quality of work they provide is high and adheres to our global delivery standards
• Engage with colleagues in the Business Intelligence team whenever VANTAGE work requires their input and collaboration
• Assist Research Manager in training new researchers in the VANTAGE methodology and approach, ensuring new team members successfully complete the onboarding process
• Provide continual training and cascade updates to the VANTAGE methodology and approach
• Monitor quality of work and give feedback to researchers; motivate and guide researchers to ensure they are focused and directed effectively on operational and other aspects of the work
• Interact regularly with other Team Leads and Associate Research Managers to provide support and feedback on VANTAGE work
• Participate in discussions with other Team Leads and Associate Research Managers to provide insight on potential service/product improvement