Top Risk Analyst Jobs in London

Lead product analytics for risk controls and regulatory compliance across Wise products. Build risk data infrastructure, monitoring metrics, control-efficiency frameworks, and testing support. Partner with product, engineering, risk, compliance, and FinCrime teams to identify regional risk drivers, improve controls, and influence decisions through data. The role requires advanced analytical, technical, communication, and stakeholder-management skills in a complex financial technology environment.

Develop and validate quantitative models and algorithms for risk and treasury operations. Responsibilities include data analysis, backtesting, model assessment, software and tool enhancement, financial optimization, and collaboration with internal teams. The role involves applying academic quantitative knowledge to banking, financial instruments, and global markets while proposing solutions to complex modeling challenges.

Supports quantitative risk and treasury research by analyzing data, backtesting strategies, maintaining software tools, evaluating model soundness, and developing, validating, and enhancing mathematical models and algorithms for financial applications.

Develop and deliver portfolio risk analytics for asset-backed finance strategies, including exposure, concentration, performance tracking, stress testing, monitoring, and reporting. Build production-ready analytics code, document models, improve data quality and reconciliation, and support regulatory, audit, and governance reporting. Translate risk and business requirements into actionable insights for investment, portfolio management, capital markets, and investor relations stakeholders.

The Risk Analyst Programme provides 18 months of training and rotational experience across credit, market and liquidity, operational, and enterprise risk. Responsibilities include analyzing exposures, monitoring portfolios, identifying emerging risks, conducting data analysis, preparing risk reports and senior presentations, supporting governance and controls, and contributing to regulatory activities and risk projects. Candidates should demonstrate analytical ability, communication skills, integrity, attention to detail, motivation, and an interest in financial markets.

Supports the first-line issue management lifecycle by maintaining accurate issue records, tracking remediation actions, monitoring ageing and closure readiness, and preparing audit-ready evidence. Produces management information, dashboards, governance packs and action logs; performs data quality checks; liaises with issue and action owners; escalates overdue actions and data gaps; and contributes to risk, control and process improvements in a regulated financial services environment.

Supports credit and country risk management across lending, payments, FX, trade finance, and emerging-market activities. Responsibilities include preparing credit applications, monitoring counterparty exposures and limits, assessing country risk, maintaining portfolio controls, producing reporting, and improving risk processes through data, systems, and automation. The role also contributes to governance, regulatory and audit requests, policy enhancements, and cross-functional risk initiatives.

Analyze and improve catastrophe risk views across insurance portfolios, validate catastrophe vendor models, develop natural hazard research agendas, support event response processes, and create exposure management approaches for unm modeled perils. The role requires collaboration with underwriting, claims, analytics, and exposure management teams, along with data collection, large-scale data manipulation, reporting, and communication of risk impacts.

Lead analytics for Payment Operations risk: define KRI frameworks, set risk thresholds, build control assurance and reconciliation models, create reliable data pipelines and visualisations, and partner with risk and auditors to prevent financial loss and ensure compliance.

Lead EMEA insider risk investigations and assessments, identify threats to people and assets, conduct interviews and evidence analysis, brief stakeholders, develop mitigation strategies and training, and collaborate with InfoSec, HR, Legal, and IT to strengthen insider risk controls and awareness.

Conduct quantitative risk research for discretionary macro and fixed-income portfolios, analyzing exposure to macroeconomic and geopolitical shocks. Develop advanced models using economic theory and quantitative techniques, then implement findings in Python-based tools for business-as-usual risk analysis. Collaborate with risk and portfolio management teams while building financial markets knowledge and technical skills.

Conduct due diligence and complex intelligence-led investigations using all-source methods. Research and analyze sensitive information, datasets, and OSINT; produce intelligence reports; maintain intelligence holdings; support HUMINT source development; and collaborate with internal and external stakeholders on sports integrity, fraud, corruption, doping, and misconduct threats.

Lead enterprise risk management across Apollo and its managed syndicates. Responsibilities include maintaining risk frameworks, assessments, registers, controls, governance, reporting, stress testing, scenario analysis, and capital model validation. The role partners with underwriting, finance, operations, and executives to identify emerging risks, conduct thematic reviews, ensure regulatory alignment, and develop mitigation strategies. It also requires presenting insights to senior stakeholders and strengthening organizational risk culture.

Conducts due diligence and complex intelligence-led investigations using all-source research, OSINT, sensitive datasets, and investigative analysis. Produces intelligence reports, maintains intelligence holdings, supports HUMINT source management, and collaborates with internal and external stakeholders on sports integrity threats including corruption, doping, abuse, misconduct, and fraud.

Deliver project, programme, and portfolio risk management services for energy, infrastructure, and renewable projects. Identify, assess, monitor, report, and mitigate cost, schedule, commercial, and business risks. Develop and interpret quantitative risk analyses using cost-loaded schedules and risk tools, advise on contingency and commercial decisions, support governance, improve risk processes and data quality, and mentor junior colleagues in senior-level roles.

Support Traded Risk Management by delivering high-quality market data solutions: develop derived market data and proxy models, analyse large datasets, coordinate market data requirements and delivery, validate daily market data, liaise with stakeholders across Risk, Trading, Model Validation and IT, and support regulatory and strategic data programmes.

Supports first-line risk management through controls inventory maintenance, data quality checks, control rationalisation, RCSA coordination, reporting, governance administration, remediation tracking and process improvement. The role maintains accurate control records and assessment documentation, prepares dashboards and management information, coordinates stakeholders and follows up on actions. It requires strong Excel, analytical, organisational and communication skills, with desirable experience in MetricStream, GRC, operational risk, controls, audit or regulated financial services.

Supports first-line risk and controls management through controls inventory maintenance, data quality checks, control rationalisation, RCSA coordination, remediation tracking, governance administration, reporting and management information. The role maintains dashboards, action logs and audit-ready documentation, coordinates stakeholders, supports governance forums, and identifies process, workflow and reporting improvements within a regulated financial services environment.

Prepare daily P&L and risk reports, analyze commodity trading risk drivers, monitor limits, support new product approvals, develop forward-curve methodologies, reconcile with accounting teams, contribute to risk committees, review Endur changes, and ensure trading control compliance across LNG, power, and emissions markets.

Manages first-line third-party risk controls across supplier onboarding, assessment, due diligence, monitoring, reassessment, remediation, reporting, and offboarding. Reviews evidence, challenges incomplete submissions, maintains risk inventories and records, monitors trigger events and overdue actions, coordinates stakeholders, supports audits and regulatory requests, and escalates material risks or control weaknesses. The role also improves third-party risk procedures, data quality, reporting, and process consistency.

Analyze ecommerce fraud trends, suspicious transactions, chargebacks, payment and delivery fraud, returns, refunds, and account abuse. Build dashboards and management reports, investigate root causes, recommend prevention measures, improve fraud processes, support automation and system enhancements, coordinate stakeholders and external partners, standardize fraud handling across European markets, and contribute to the fraud prevention roadmap and training.

Independently validates lending strategies, decision systems, controls, and customer outcomes using SAS and complex data analysis. Investigates system behavior, defects, data quality issues, and control weaknesses across strategic and production environments. Produces assurance documentation and management reporting, communicates technical findings to diverse stakeholders, supports governance forums, and deputizes for the Manager when required.

Monitor intraday and end-of-day market risk for hedge fund and securities financing portfolios. Evaluate margin adequacy, collateral sufficiency, leverage, liquidity, concentration, and financing exposures. Review margin methodologies, conduct stress testing and scenario analysis, monitor risk limits, escalate breaches, and recommend risk actions. Partner with Trading, Prime Brokerage, and Securities Finance teams on client risk, onboarding, due diligence, risk frameworks, margin models, and stress-testing enhancements.

Lead second-line risk oversight across insurance and financial risks, including underwriting, reinsurance, reserving, capital, risk appetite, KRIs, internal model validation, ORSA, and risk events. Deliver assurance reviews, deep-dive analyses, management and Board reporting, and constructive stakeholder challenge. Support strategic transaction due diligence, emerging-risk monitoring, Lloyd’s attestations, change programmes, and junior team development.

Supports enterprise and fund risk management across risk and control self-assessments, operational incidents, control effectiveness reviews, remediation plans, risk reporting, thematic reviews, and audit coordination. The role collaborates with internal departments, control functions, committees, auditors, fund delegates, and external service providers while helping maintain regulatory and industry-aligned risk processes.