Top Risk Analyst Jobs in London

Develops reliable risk datasets, KRIs, dashboards, management reporting, and early-warning capabilities across enterprise and operational risk areas. Partners with risk stakeholders to define indicators, assess data quality, analyze trends and anomalies, calibrate thresholds, and translate requirements into practical data solutions. Uses SQL, Python, visualization tools, Snowflake, AI-enabled workflows, and automation to modernize risk reporting while maintaining validation, traceability, and human oversight.

Provides independent market risk analysis across energy trading, hedging, and commercial activities. Develops risk methodologies, quantitative models, reporting processes, and metrics including Value at Risk, stress testing, and scenario analysis. Monitors risk mandates and control frameworks, escalates breaches, supports commercial decisions, and improves reporting automation using Power BI, SQL, and Python. Communicates complex quantitative insights to senior stakeholders.

Monitors and analyzes counterparty credit risk exposures, market data, ratings, clearing activity, and limit breaches. Prepares daily credit monitoring reports, internal credit score assessments, risk reports, and management information for stakeholders and senior risk leadership. Maintains counterparty databases and financial information, interprets Tableau dashboards, escalates significant risks and news, supports risk controls, and contributes to Credit Risk and Group Risk projects.

Lead and expand Experian’s global Insider Risk Management Program by analyzing security data, detecting insider threats and data loss incidents, improving UEBA and DLP controls, developing detection logic and predictive models, building dashboards and queries, automating investigative workflows, and supporting insider risk investigations, governance, and reporting.

Supports investment risk management for private credit portfolios, including CLOs, leveraged loans, direct lending, and distressed investments. Identifies risk exposures, monitors limits, develops quantitative analytics, advances data libraries, and provides portfolio insights to investment teams and senior leadership. The role also supports risk governance, strategic projects, regulatory alignment, board reporting, and emerging-risk analysis.

Prepare daily P&L and market risk reports for oil, refined products, and biofuels trading; monitor limits, identify significant risks, and support senior management. Develop forward curve methodologies, assess new products, review Endur changes, and support month-end activities. Collaborate with traders, front office, back office, and risk committees while mentoring junior team members and contributing to automation and AI-enabled trading tools.

Supports insurance and underwriting risk management across risk appetite, metrics, reporting, model governance, ORSA, stress testing, business-plan reviews, and thematic risk analysis. The role partners with underwriting, capital modeling, reserving, pricing, exposure management, portfolio management, and reinsurance teams to identify, monitor, challenge, and communicate risk insights to leadership and the Board.

Oversee collateral risk across institutional portfolios by reviewing collateral eligibility, valuation, coverage, margin sufficiency, concentration, market stress, liquidity, and wrong-way risk. Monitor portfolio trends and exceptions, produce risk reporting, support mitigation strategies, maintain policies and procedures, and ensure regulatory alignment. Partner with Credit, Portfolio Management, Legal, Operations, and Risk teams while supporting audits, regulatory exams, and governance initiatives.

Support Germany’s lending strategy by analyzing credit and portfolio risk, designing experiments, improving underwriting scorecards, maintaining lending dashboards, and providing insights for strategic decisions. The role collaborates with data scientists, credit analysts, product, technology, and operations teams to improve lending outcomes and business performance.

Support second-line risk oversight across a combined fintech organization by developing risk frameworks, conducting independent reviews, assessing controls, monitoring emerging risks, and providing practical recommendations. The role also involves improving risk monitoring through automation and AI tools, supporting risk planning, interpreting regulatory requirements, and constructively challenging stakeholders while maintaining independent oversight.

Supports business continuity, disaster recovery, insurance, risk management, internal audit, and assurance activities. Responsibilities include maintaining resilience documentation, coordinating testing and incident reviews, managing insurance queries and renewals, assisting with claims, conducting audit fieldwork, analyzing risk data, preparing governance reporting, and advising stakeholders on controls and resilience improvements.

Leads second-line risk management for a regulated payments fintech. Responsibilities include facilitating RCSAs, maintaining risk registers, testing controls, tracking remediation, conducting change and product risk assessments, performing scenario analysis and stress testing, and preparing board and regulatory reporting. The role also manages safeguarding, vendor, customer, credit, exposure, threshold, and limit risks across multiple jurisdictions.

Support design, development, implementation and embedding of Swift's Enterprise Risk Management framework. Maintain ERM collateral, refresh components like Risk Appetite and KRIs, analyze enterprise risk data and data quality, and produce impactful risk reporting. Work with Risk Partners and stakeholders to improve framework implementation and inform decision-making.

Supports monitoring, analysis, reporting, and governance of financial, market, liquidity, and credit risks for a global specialty insurer. Responsibilities include risk reporting, exposure analysis, stress testing, scenario analysis, capital modeling reviews, investment risk assessments, liquidity monitoring, KRI development, ORSA, RCSA, regulatory requests, and stakeholder collaboration across Investments, Treasury, Finance, Actuarial, and Underwriting.

Monitor trade finance credit line usage, collateral coverage, portfolio reconciliations, fees, pricing, terms, exposures, and limit breaches. Prepare credit and utilisation documentation, respond to client facility queries, coordinate deal processing with operations, and deliver risk reporting to management. The role requires trade finance instrument knowledge, familiarity with lending and credit controls, AML/KYC awareness, strong Excel skills, and confident communication.

Design and implement the Office of the CIO target operating model, focusing on technology risk, governance, controls, SMF24 compliance, accountabilities, and management information. Facilitate stakeholder workshops, assess current and future states, develop process maps, RACIs, governance frameworks, committee structures, and control documentation, and support transition into BAU. Translate regulatory and risk requirements into practical operating arrangements while advising senior Technology and Risk stakeholders.

Supports portfolio risk monitoring, regulatory and policy adherence, mandate breach resolution, management reporting, and risk-related training. The role develops MI and KPI reporting, supports Front Office stakeholders, contributes to risk and control initiatives, and helps improve efficiency through data and automation. It requires investment management experience, FCA conduct knowledge, strong Excel capability, analytical skills, and the ability to challenge and influence Investment Managers while maintaining client-focused outcomes.

Assess and monitor client and partner risk portfolios across financial crime, business model, resilience, conduct, and complaints domains. Conduct risk assessments, open-source research, assurance testing, and oversight meetings; identify emerging risks, challenge controls, track remediation, develop key risk indicators, and provide management information. Support FCA and DNB regulatory compliance, audits, and reviews while contributing to AI-assisted risk assessment improvements.

Supports the Market Risk product roadmap by translating client and stakeholder needs into product requirements, researching functionality, coordinating feature implementation, and developing analytical prototypes. Collaborates with data, software, and financial engineering teams on risk models and product enhancements. Provides client and professional services support through product questions, proofs of concept, onboarding, production runs, presentations, and documentation.

Leads Gartner research and advisory insights for Chief Audit Executives on internal audit planning, risk coverage, and IT audit. Develops thought leadership, analyzes technology-related risks, advises clients, presents at events, supports sales, reviews content, mentors analysts, and improves research processes. Requires deep internal audit and IT audit expertise, executive presence, strong research and communication skills, and the ability to assess cybersecurity, IT governance, AI, technology operations, systems, and data risks.

Lead product analytics for risk controls and regulatory compliance across Wise products. Build risk data infrastructure, control-performance metrics, and control-efficiency frameworks. Analyze risk reduction versus growth impact, support control testing, and partner with product, engineering, compliance, product risk, and financial crime teams. Use data to identify regional risk drivers, monitor local typologies, and influence product decisions. The role requires advanced analytics, stakeholder management, and strong knowledge of banking or financial products.

Assesses third parties and outsourcing arrangements throughout the vendor lifecycle. Reviews due diligence evidence, SOC reports, and policies; identifies control gaps; tracks remediation; maintains risk ratings, criticality tiers, inventories, and risk registers; supports outsourcing and concentration risk analysis; escalates material issues; and produces management information for governance forums. The role requires financial-services third-party risk experience and knowledge of PRA SS2/21, FCA SYSC 8, DORA, or EBA outsourcing guidelines.

Own fraud prevention for an online crypto casino by investigating bonus abuse, multi-accounting, payment fraud, chargebacks, suspicious activity, and withdrawals. Develop detection rules and controls, manage investigations, collaborate with payments, compliance, customer support, and marketing, and evaluate bonus schemes and campaigns using mathematical models to reduce fraud and protect legitimate players.

Supports the Enterprise Risk Management and Actuarial Functions across Ascot Group entities. Responsibilities include maintaining risk registers and governance frameworks, reviewing controls, preparing quarterly risk reports and annual ORSA documentation, monitoring emerging risks, developing risk appetite metrics, supporting scenario analysis, and assisting with regulatory, compliance, committee, audit, and Lloyd’s attestation activities.

Detect, investigate, and mitigate fraud across merchant acquiring and payment platforms. Monitor transactions, identify fraud typologies, manage chargebacks and disputes, support merchant onboarding and underwriting, and maintain risk controls. Collaborate with card schemes, acquiring partners, processors, and compliance teams while ensuring adherence to UK regulations, AML/CTF obligations, PCI DSS, and scheme rules.