Vice President / Senior Vice President – Client Asset Safety (CASS)
Manchester, UK (Hybrid – 4 days onsite)
Full‑time | Competitive salary + benefits package
About the Opportunity
We are partnering with BNY Pershing Wealth Services Platform to appoint experienced Vice President (VP) and Senior Vice President (SVP) leaders into a dedicated Client Asset Safety (CASS) function. This is a senior regulatory control leadership role within a high-impact governance environment, responsible for safeguarding client money and custody assets while ensuring full compliance with FCA CASS rules and wider EMEA client asset regulatory frameworks. You will play a pivotal role in strengthening control effectiveness, enhancing oversight frameworks, and driving data‑led and automated solutions across a complex global operating model.
About the Organisation
Join a leading global financial services organisation operating at the heart of custody, clearing, and investment servicing across international markets. The business plays a critical role in safeguarding client assets within highly regulated environments, including FCA CASS, CBI, and JFSC regimes. With a strong focus on governance, operational resilience, and control integrity, the organisation continues to invest heavily in automation, data quality, and transformation. Senior leaders operate in a highly collaborative, transformation‑led environment where they are empowered to directly influence regulatory outcomes, strengthen enterprise‑wide control frameworks, and shape the future of global wealth services.
The Role: VP / SVP – Client Asset Safety (CASS)
You will lead oversight of client asset protection frameworks, ensuring robust governance, regulatory compliance, and continuous improvement of control environments across custody operations. At SVP level, this role carries significant responsibility for executive reporting, regulatory engagement, and enterprise‑wide risk visibility.
Key Responsibilities
- Own and enhance Client Asset (CASS) governance, oversight, and assurance frameworks
- Ensure compliance with FCA CASS, CBI, and JFSC client asset regulations
- Lead execution of the CASS oversight and quality assurance programme
- Assess and challenge control effectiveness across custody, segregation, and reconciliation processes
- Oversee regulatory reporting, breach assessment, and materiality evaluation
- Act as a key escalation point for client asset risk events and operational incidents
- Produce and present governance reporting for Boards, ExCo, and senior committees (SVP level)
- Partner with Operations, Risk, Compliance, Technology, and Internal Audit functions
- Drive remediation of control gaps, audit findings, and regulatory issues
- Identify and implement automation and data‑driven control enhancements
What We’re Looking For
- Proven experience at VP or SVP level in CASS, Client Assets, Custody, or Regulatory Controls
- Strong working knowledge of FCA CASS rules and safeguarding frameworks
- Background in operational risk, governance, compliance, or control oversight
- Experience in custody, asset servicing, or regulated financial services environments
- Demonstrated track record managing regulatory engagement, audits, and remediation programmes
- Strong analytical capability with a deep control and risk mindset
- Experience operating in complex, global, matrixed organisations
- Ability to influence senior stakeholders and lead cross‑functional initiatives
Highly Desirable
- Experience with CMAR / MCAR reporting
- Exposure to reconciliation frameworks and custody control environments
- Background in operational resilience or control transformation programmes
- Experience delivering automation or process improvement initiatives
Why Join
- Senior leadership role within a mission‑critical regulatory control function
- High visibility across executive leadership and regulatory stakeholders
- Opportunity to shape and enhance global client asset protection frameworks
- Work within a modernising, data‑driven wealth services platform
- Strong culture of transformation, innovation, and continuous improvement
Applicants must have full, unrestricted right to work in the UK. Sponsorship is not available now or in the future.
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