Business Controls Specialist

Jane Street is seeking a Business Controls Specialist in London to manage audit and regulatory tasks. This role involves coordinating responses to external stakeholders like auditors and regulators, performing gap analyses, and documenting processes and controls. The specialist will highlight risks, assess workflows against regulatory standards, and design audit test procedures. The ideal candidate enjoys working with people and documentation, and can clearly explain processes, risks, and controls.

Must Have

• Manage a variety of tasks and projects across a wide range of audit and regulatory work.
• Coordinate responses to external stakeholders (auditors, regulators, clients).
• Assist with highlighting the risks inherent to specific processes.
• Perform gap analyses, including documenting and assessing existing and proposed processes, workflows and controls.
• Explain processes, risks and controls clearly to external parties.
• Facilitate communication between internal departments and external parties for various projects.
• Prepare risk and control inventories, process documentation, presentation materials and routine correspondence.
• Clearly label, file and organise document submissions.
• Assess processes and workflows to determine whether regulatory standards and industry best practices have been met.
• Design audit test procedures to independently validate documented adherence to internal policy requirements.
• 3-5 years of experience in process/controls design and implementation, business process and system controls assurance, or operational risk management and compliance.
• Familiar with the auditing process and experienced with participating in audits.
• Self-starter who can handle competing priorities and work effectively and efficiently.
• Organised with excellent attention to detail.
• Clear, comprehensive and concise communicator.
• Enjoy writing and maintaining good documentation.
• Able to build strong collaborative relationships across various groups.
• Reliable and flexible team player with a positive attitude.
• Self-motivated to share knowledge and improve processes.
• Strong analytical and critical thinker; have a “can-do” attitude when resolving issues.
• Fluent in English.

Good to Have

• Familiar with Jira

About the Position

We are looking for a Business Controls Specialist to manage a variety of tasks and projects across a wide range of audit and regulatory work. You’ll work alongside seasoned colleagues across the firm, helping to coordinate responses to external stakeholders—including auditors, regulators and clients—regarding our firm’s processes and controls.

As our firm continues to grow, you’ll assist with highlighting the risks inherent to specific processes arising from Jane Street’s business activities by performing gap analyses, including documenting and assessing existing and proposed processes, workflows and controls.

The right person for this role will enjoy working with people and documentation, and be able to explain processes, risks and controls clearly to external parties, tailoring information granularity to suit the audience's needs. Your previous industry expertise will be valuable to the team as we collaborate with outside auditors and advisors.

Additional responsibilities of the role will include:

• Facilitating communication between internal departments and external parties for various projects, including exchange memberships, business process and technology audits, regulatory inquiries and client due diligence requests
• Preparing risk and control inventories, process documentation, presentation materials and routine correspondence
• Clearly labelling, filing and organising document submissions for subsequent retrieval and reference
• Assessing processes and workflows to determine whether regulatory standards and industry best practices have been met
• Designing audit test procedures to independently validate documented adherence to internal policy requirements

About You

• Have 3-5 years of experience in a similar role, for example in:

• Process/controls design and implementation (e.g., in response to new regulation)
• Business process and system controls assurance (e.g., application level and general technology controls audits)
• Operational risk management and compliance

• Familiar with the auditing process and experienced with participating in audits
• Self-starter who can handle competing priorities and work effectively and efficiently in a challenging, fast-paced environment
• Organised with excellent attention to detail
• Clear, comprehensive and concise communicator
• Enjoy writing and maintaining good documentation
• Able to build strong collaborative relationships across various groups within the firm
• Reliable and flexible team player with a positive attitude
• Self-motivated to share knowledge and improve processes as appropriate
• Strong analytical and critical thinker; have a “can-do” attitude when resolving issues
• Ideally familiar with Jira (but not required)
• Fluent in English