Top Risk Analyst Jobs in London

Support certification and assurance activities including preparing for certification audits, assessing and testing security and technology controls against standards, documenting test procedures and evidence, identifying control deficiencies and supporting remediation, and collaborating with control owners, 1st/2nd line teams and auditors to maintain certifications and improve control effectiveness.

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.

Lead quality assurance reviews of transaction monitoring investigations, enforce QA rubrics, perform root cause analysis, and deliver metrics and dashboards. Drive calibration, training, and cross-functional remediation with Compliance, Operations, Analytics, and L&D to improve AML/CFT case consistency and operational performance.

The Senior Risk Analyst will manage OTC foreign exchange risks, support margin processes, conduct stress-testing, and enhance risk capabilities at ForexClear.

Develop and implement quantitative algorithms and statistical models to produce and publish forward pricing curves for illiquid commodity markets using Matlab, SQL and Excel; monitor curve performance daily, respond to client requests, update documentation, and collaborate with sales, product and editorial teams.

Develops and maintains investment risk analytics, datasets, data pipelines, models, and Power BI reporting. Supports VaR backtesting, model governance, risk validation, mandate and instrument onboarding, regulatory reporting, and ad hoc analysis. Collaborates with Technology on requirements, solution design, software development, and user acceptance testing. Requires strong Python, SQL, investment risk, quantitative finance, financial markets, and fixed-income expertise, with Databricks, Spark, derivatives, Aladdin, and regulatory reporting experience preferred.

Operate and maintain daily VaR and margin systems, monitor intraday exposures and limits, reconcile margins, run stress tests and liquidity models, investigate anomalies, validate P&L attribution, and produce risk reports for senior management while collaborating with traders to optimize margin and limit usage.

Design and document market-data workflows, integrations, and data pipelines for risk analytics. Translate business needs into specifications, data mappings, user stories, and test plans. Investigate data issues using SQL/Python, support UAT and releases, and improve controls, monitoring, automation, and operational processes across Market Data and Integration.

The role involves developing catastrophe aggregation models, automating processes, validating exposures, mentoring team members, and ensuring adherence to data capture standards while supporting risk management initiatives.

Analyze credit and portfolio data to support and improve credit models, monitor portfolio performance, investigate drivers of change, build tooling and monitoring, and support product launches and policy adaptations.

Perform credit risk analysis and implement acquisition and portfolio strategies for UK consumer and small business card portfolios. Track and explain acquisition and portfolio metrics, evaluate new data sources, generate insights, and collaborate with Central Risk, Operations, Product, Acquisitions, and Compliance to deliver profitable risk strategies and better customer outcomes.

Analyze UK consumer and small business card credit risk, develop and implement credit risk strategies, evaluate new data sources, track portfolio performance, and partner with product, acquisitions, operations, compliance, and analytics teams to drive profitable outcomes.

Lead and support Enterprise Risk Management activities including ERMF implementation, risk identification, reporting, ORSA input, control effectiveness, deep dives, KRI monitoring, and administration/enhancement and training for the Decision Focus GRC tool to embed risk awareness across the business.

Perform and document assigned internal audit tasks within EMEA Internal Audit, supporting scoping, testing, issue validation, reporting and continuous monitoring. Engage stakeholders to agree findings, support management action plans, follow-up on remediation, apply audit methodology and QA standards, and use data analytics and agile auditing practices to identify emerging risks and improve control environments.

Support client's risk management by maintaining risk registers, producing board-level reports, assessing operational/underwriting/market risks, contributing to ORSA, embedding risk appetite frameworks, supporting stress testing, and improving risk processes and controls.

Support global IT risk management and controls by maintaining the risk register, implementing the enhanced risk framework, preparing risk reports, managing control attestations/remediations, and supporting internal/external technology audits and governance forums.

Lead operational risk management for European PetroChina entities: develop risk frameworks, manage new business assurance, design/test controls, investigate incidents, produce trader KPI reports, support IT projects and onboard new starters to ensure control compliance across trading operations.

Lead credit risk assessments for trading counterparties, maintain ratings, limits and exposures, advise on collateral and transaction structures, produce credit reporting, and work with Quant and Tech teams to develop, validate and automate credit risk models, tools and controls.

Lead migration of SAS-based analytical EUCs to GCP by analysing business and risk logic, assessing GCP data landscape, defining data requirements and source-to-target mappings, producing engineering-ready specs, enabling engineering teams, and promoting reusable Consumer Data Products across use cases within an agile migration factory.

Produce monthly and weekly performance and risk reports for a range of funds, explain market effects on performance, publish newsletters, manage reporting processes, extract/validate data, and collaborate with investment, compliance, sales, and product teams.

Provide analytical support to the Models & Analytics Manager: deliver data analytics for credit decisioning models, produce credit risk reporting packs, champion credit data quality, support Credit Risk reporting and ad hoc projects, and manage Impairment monthly controls and oversight.

Lead and support first-line operational risk activities: facilitate RCSAs, assess risks in projects, investigate incidents, produce risk reporting and dashboards, partner with stakeholders to embed risk ownership and improve resilience.

Support Resilience and Risk & Controls managers by consolidating and visualizing risk and controls data, tracking mitigation and audit actions, maintaining business continuity and operational resilience frameworks, coordinating governance and committee follow-ups, reviewing continuity metrics and incident data, and engaging stakeholders to deliver resilience improvements.

Provide analytical support to Models & Analytics Manager for credit decisioning models, perform data mining and statistical analysis, produce regular credit risk reports, champion credit data quality initiatives, support Credit Risk reporting and ad hoc projects, and assist Impairment management with monthly controls and oversight.