Information Barriers Consultant

G MASS are seeking an Information Barriers Consultant to join the Legal & Compliance function of a leading global financial services firm, operating across both its hedge fund and broker-dealer entities.

This is an embedded, programme ownership role. The successful candidate will take full day-to-day ownership of a well-established information barriers programme, running it independently from day one. The programme is mature with strong controls and significant automation already in place; the new hire will inherit a functioning operation rather than build one from scratch. The role requires someone assertive enough to chase resolution across a large organisation, comfortable engaging engineers and technology teams on systems and access management, and organised enough to manage a broad and varied BAU workload concurrently. This is not a short-term assignment: significant institutional knowledge is required, and the end goal is for the successful candidate to own the programme outright.

You'll be joining a close-knit three-person compliance team at one of the most prominent names in global finance, with genuine long-term progression on offer. After year one, there is the opportunity to convert to a full-time employee. The role is based five days per week on-site in Midtown, New York. 

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end management of the firm's information barrier controls across both the hedge fund and broker-dealer entities, ensuring all controls remain accurate and fit for purpose
• Coordinate the addition of new information barriers across systems and teams, following an established playbook and ensuring all relevant parties are engaged through to completion
• Monitor daily exception reports, investigating anomalies with system owners and determining whether activity constitutes a breach or misconfiguration
• Administer electronic IB controls across Active Directory, Unix groups, JIRA, SharePoint, and service accounts, ensuring access permissions accurately reflect barrier configurations
• Manage physical IB controls including badge and door access, floor and building separation, and weekly desk move approvals
• Oversee the employee transfer nuking process, reviewing transfers across divisions, assessing whether an information barrier is crossed, and deactivating and reissuing system access accordingly
• Administer new department IB assignments, reviewing and approving barrier configurations for new teams as they are created
• Manage the Shared Resources Dashboard, tracking technology infrastructure shared between the hedge fund and broker-dealer entities, reviewing new requests, maintaining existing entries, and removing resources no longer in use
• Review and approve new software requests from a compliance perspective, as one of three reviewers alongside information security and engineering
• Administer entitlements across the Legal and Compliance function, ensuring access rights are granted at the appropriate level within internal access management systems
• Conduct annual audits of Compliance Firewall groups and the Shared Resources Dashboard on a sampling basis to confirm controls remain fit for purpose
• Perform periodic testing of IB Active Directory and Unix groups to verify that technical controls are functioning as intended
• Track workstreams and report on team accomplishments to senior leadership via JIRA, and act as a central coordination figure within the team

Requirements

• Direct experience managing an information barriers programme is strongly preferred; control room, compliance operations, access governance, or identity and access management backgrounds are all considered
• Experience within a regulated financial services environment; hedge fund or broker-dealer background is advantageous but not required
• Comfortable engaging engineers and technology teams on systems architecture, logical access separation, and entitlement configuration without needing a technical background
• Proven ability to operate with persistence across a large, matrixed organisation, chasing resolution from senior and diverse stakeholders across business, technology, risk, and operations
• Highly organised with the ability to manage a broad, concurrent BAU workload without dropping detail
• Confident enough to flag violations and hold the line on compliance requirements across the firm
• Familiarity with JIRA is advantageous but not essential

Benefits

Pay: $1,000-1,100/d

Length: initial 12-months, with the potential to be made permanent