Jobs at CLS Group

Leads technology risk and control oversight within the Chief Controls Office. Responsibilities include identifying and assessing risks, reviewing remediation plans, evaluating control effectiveness, monitoring corrective actions, developing risk metrics, supporting audit and regulatory engagement, and reporting risk activity to stakeholders. The role drives consistent control standards, risk-aware culture, and cross-functional collaboration across Technology and business teams.

Leads CLS engagement with global public policymakers and financial market infrastructure organizations. Develops evidence-based policy positions, consultation responses, white papers, speeches, and stakeholder strategies. Coordinates participation in international FX, payments, and regulatory initiatives, including FSB, CPMI, BIS, GFXC, and local FX committees. Supports senior executives in policymaker engagement and tracks regulatory developments affecting CLS strategy, services, and innovation.

Leads a portfolio of complex internal audits within a financial services environment, overseeing audit planning, execution, risk assessment, regulatory issue remediation, and reporting to senior management and the Audit & Finance Committee. Manages and develops auditors, engages regulators and executives, provides technical audit expertise, monitors emerging risks, and supports integrated operational audits across CLS.

Support regulatory compliance advisory activities, including risk assessments, monitoring and control testing, policy reviews, management reporting, regulatory change implementation, horizon scanning, and governance documentation. The role requires collaboration with stakeholders, regulators, audit teams, and senior management while identifying compliance gaps and supporting remediation in a regulated financial-services environment.

Lead and enhance CLS's Business Continuity Management program: maintain pandemic and continuity plans, deliver scenario testing and training, manage third-party resilience, perform risk and country assessments, support crisis management, and ensure regulatory and audit requirements are met.

Lead design and delivery of an enterprise continuity program to improve CLS operational resilience. Identify critical services and impact tolerances, map scenarios and vulnerabilities, deliver tooling and dashboards, run resilience testing and training, engage regulators and executives, and drive remediation and enterprise-wide continuity planning across technology, third party, facilities and people risks.

Leads insider threat detection and investigations using UEBA, SIEM, SOAR, EDR, DLP, and IAM systems. Establishes behavioral baselines, tunes detection logic, monitors user risk, conducts threat hunting, manages incident response playbooks, and supports user quarantine actions. Develops insider threat tools, standards, and processes; collaborates with legal, HR, intelligence, and organizational stakeholders; researches emerging technologies; and reports risks and mitigation efforts to executives.

Leads complex internal audits focused on transformation, change management, and project portfolios within a financial services environment. Responsibilities include audit planning and testing, reviewing work, validating remediation, monitoring emerging risks, supporting risk assessments, using data analytics, and advising senior stakeholders. The role also mentors audit staff, improves audit methodology, manages audit assignments, and contributes to strategic Internal Audit initiatives.

Conduct technology and information security control audits within a financial services environment. Support central bank and payment-system attestations, map requirements to internal controls, perform walkthroughs and testing, document workpapers, evaluate exceptions, and validate management actions. Collaborate with stakeholders on technology, resilience, security, governance, artificial intelligence, and data analytics initiatives while maintaining Internal Audit standards and reporting findings clearly.

Build and operate an AWS-based security analytics platform, including a security data lake, telemetry pipelines, metrics frameworks, executive dashboards, regulatory reporting, and continuous control assurance. Integrate cybersecurity and risk datasets, develop KPI and KRI reporting, implement Terraform and CI/CD automation, and provide trusted insights into cyber risk, control effectiveness, vulnerabilities, and remediation performance for technology leaders, regulators, auditors, and the Board.

Leads cybersecurity business management within IT Security, focusing on workforce development, stakeholder advisory, governance, budgeting, procurement, resource allocation, reporting, and operational effectiveness. The role coordinates security governance forums, supports regulatory and compliance alignment, communicates cyber risk to business units, and partners with finance, procurement, and technology leadership in a regulated financial-services environment.

Manages and expands relationships with CLS clients across EMEA, increasing adoption of settlement, processing, and data products. Develops client engagement and targeting strategies, identifies upselling opportunities, maintains pipelines and CRM records, resolves issues, supports regional and global KPIs, and represents CLS at industry events. Requires client management or sales experience, preferably in financial markets, FX knowledge, and ideally fluency in an additional European language.

Leads the strategic design, engineering, governance, and operation of CLS’s identity and access management program. Responsibilities include scaling IGA and PAM platforms, automating provisioning and access reviews, managing workforce, customer, machine, and AI-agent identities, implementing JIT and zero-standing-privilege controls, applying AI/ML for anomaly detection, overseeing vendors, defining security engineering standards, and building a high-performing security engineering function in a regulated financial-services environment.

Leads compliance monitoring and testing within the second line of defense. Responsibilities include scoping reviews, interpreting regulations, executing testing plans, writing reports, identifying control gaps, advising senior stakeholders, improving compliance processes, and influencing risk-mitigation outcomes. The role requires independent judgment, strong communication and analytical skills, knowledge of Prudential, BSA/AML, Privacy, Financial Market Utility regulations, and familiarity with corporate compliance standards.

Conduct client due diligence for financial services questionnaires, attestations, and member notices. Maintain client records, trackers, procedures, and Ombud platform requests; research risks and recommend mitigations. Collaborate with Client Engagement, Product, Risk, Operations, IT, Legal, and Compliance teams. Prepare reports and presentations for management, support annual attestation and volume-testing programs, and improve due diligence processes while meeting tight deadlines.

Lead full-cycle talent acquisition across the US, Asia, and UK, including direct sourcing, hiring strategy, stakeholder advising, vendor management, interview coordination, offers, and onboarding. Optimize ATS processes, maintain recruitment governance and compliance, promote inclusive hiring and internal mobility, build talent pipelines, and partner with HR and business leaders to deliver strong candidate and stakeholder experiences.

Support senior Technology executives through calendar and diary management, meeting preparation, frequent domestic and international travel coordination, expense processing, phone coverage, records management, and confidential correspondence. Provide backup support to other executive assistants, manage competing priorities, coordinate across time zones, and maintain high standards of organization, communication, discretion, and service in a fast-paced environment.

Lead design, configuration, testing, deployment and support of Oracle Fusion HCM modules. Gather requirements, translate to functional specs, validate configurations, support data migration, build reports, train users, and collaborate with stakeholders and implementation partners to ensure the HCM solution meets HR operational needs.

Senior executive responsible for defining and delivering the multi-year digital workspace strategy and operational support for end-user computing. Owns platform/product delivery (Windows, mobile, collaboration, email, telephony), vendor and contract management, service resilience and DR, lifecycle/asset management, KPIs/SLAs, and leads a global team to drive adoption, productivity and continual improvement.

Manage and deepen client relationships across APAC to grow CLS settlement, processing and data product usage. Develop and execute client engagement and targeting plans, maintain CRM (GoldVision), upsell products, represent CLS at market events, resolve client issues, and collaborate with global teams to meet regional KPIs.