Control Room Specialist

G MASS Consulting are partnered with a leading Hedge Fund, as they seek a Control Room professional to join its global Compliance function in London.

This role is ideal for a compliance business analyst who combines hands-on Control Room experience with strong data and process skills. The role has a combination of BAU Control Room responsibilities, including restriction list management and position limit monitoring, as well as process and data improvement initiatives to strengthen controls, data quality, and automation.

Equally important is mindset. The team is small, fast-moving, and highly commercial, and the successful candidate will be someone who takes ownership from day one, works without hand-holding, and actively looks for ways to make the control environment better.

Responsibilities:

• Maintain and administer restriction lists, including watch and restricted lists, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and timely updates.
• Perform position limit monitoring across asset classes, investigating and escalating breaches, exceptions, and data anomalies.
• Support the firm’s information barrier and MNPI controls, including wall-crossing procedures and need-to-know governance.
• Act as a day-to-day point of contact for the business on restriction, limit, and conflicts queries, providing clear and timely responses.
• Document, review, and refine Control Room procedures, controls, and workflows.
• Gather and write requirements, and work with technology teams to improve the data feeds, logic, and tooling that underpin restriction and limit monitoring.
• Take ownership of process and data improvement initiatives end to end, identifying opportunities proactively rather than waiting for direction.
• Assist with periodic reviews, regulatory requests, and audit queries.
• Contribute to ongoing enhancements of the Control Room framework and its underlying data architecture.

• A genuine ownership mindset. The team is deliberately lean and does not operate with close supervision: you will be expected to identify what needs doing, drive it to completion, and hold yourself accountable end to end.
• Hands-on experience in a Control Room, compliance, or control function at a hedge fund, investment bank, or asset manager, with direct exposure to restriction lists and position limit monitoring.
• A compliance business analyst skill set: requirements gathering, process documentation, data analysis, and working effectively alongside technology teams.
• Working understanding of MNPI, information barriers, and conflicts management principles.
• Strong data analysis and data manipulation capability, including SQL, with the ability to interrogate large datasets and turn findings into practical improvements.
• Demonstrated experience balancing BAU control responsibilities with change, transformation, or data enhancement projects.
• Deep curiosity applied to data analysis, and a demonstrable track record of improving the processes you inherit rather than simply operating them.

Salary: up to £150k

Length: 12 months, with the likelihood of extension or a strong permanent conversion pathway