Senior Manager, Markets Operations Control

Lloyds Banking Group

Senior Manager overseeing Markets Operations control environment at Lloyds Banking Group. Strengthening operational resilience and regulatory compliance through effective risk management.

Posted 7/29/2026full-timeLondon • 🇬🇧 United KingdomSeniorWebsite

Core Competencies

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates deep expertise in Markets Operations with a strong focus on risk and control frameworks, ensuring effective oversight of trade reconciliation processes and regulatory compliance. Capable of driving continuous improvement initiatives and providing strategic insights to enhance operational resilience.

Highest-signal resume keywords

Markets Operations ExperienceTrade Reconciliation OversightRisk And Control FrameworksStakeholder ManagementRegulatory Compliance Knowledge

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Hard Skills

Control Effectiveness AssessmentAudit ManagementControl Deficiency RemediationData AnalysisRegulatory Reporting

Soft Skills

Influencing SkillsConstructive ChallengeContinuous Improvement Mindset

Industry Keywords

Post-Trade LifecycleEMIRMiFIRSFTROperational Control Frameworks

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Maintain an end-to-end view of the Markets Operations control environment, assessing control effectiveness across key operational processes and identifying emerging risks, vulnerabilities and areas for improvement.
Analyse findings from internal audits, CCOR reviews, risk events, regulatory assessments, control testing and management information to identify systemic themes and opportunities to strengthen the control framework.
Lead the identification, prioritisation and remediation of control deficiencies, ensuring actions are appropriately scoped, tracked and delivered to a high standard.
Partner with Operations leaders, Control Owners and the Controls Office to develop and implement control improvement strategies that enhance resilience, improve control effectiveness and support regulatory compliance.
Develop meaningful management information and control insights that provide clear visibility of control health, emerging risks, issue trends and remediation progress to senior governance forums.
Support transformation, platform and process change initiatives by embedding control-by-design principles, ensuring risk and control considerations are integrated into future-state operating models.
Act as a trusted advisor to Operations leadership, providing constructive challenge, influencing prioritisation decisions and driving accountability for control improvements across Markets Operations.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Deep experience in Markets Operations (middle/back office), typically gained over 8+ years, with strong understanding of the post-trade lifecycle
Proven experience overseeing trade reconciliation processes across front to back systems with a track record of identifying, investigating and driving timely resolution of breaks to minimise operational and financial risk
Strong experience operating within a first-line risk and control environment, with responsibility for assessing control effectiveness and driving remediation activity.
Demonstrated ability to analyse complex control environments, identify systemic weaknesses and translate insights into meaningful improvement actions.
Experience managing audit findings, risk events, thematic reviews and regulatory issues through to successful closure.
Strong understanding of risk and control frameworks, including risks, controls, issues, governance, assurance and regulatory expectations.
Knowledge of key Markets regulatory reporting and post-trade processes, including areas such as EMIR, MiFIR, SFTR and operational control frameworks.
Ability to interpret and challenge management information, identifying trends, emerging risks and opportunities to strengthen control effectiveness.
Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence senior leaders, provide effective challenge and build alignment across multiple teams.
A continuous improvement mindset, with a focus on simplification, automation and strengthening control outcomes.

Benefits

Comp & perks

A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
An annual performance-related bonus
Share schemes including free shares
Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top
A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies