Top Risk Analyst Jobs in London

Supports technology risk management across critical services, platforms, and processes. Responsibilities include risk assessments, issue and remediation tracking, control evaluations, key risk indicator analysis, reporting, governance documentation, and stakeholder collaboration. The role also contributes to risk methodologies, dashboards, continuous improvement, and operational resilience initiatives while supporting informed risk-based decisions across technology and business teams.

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.

Own recurring GRC workflows including third-party risk assessments, customer security requests, security awareness, access reviews, audit evidence collection, and risk and policy tracking. Coordinate with cross-functional stakeholders, maintain audit-ready records, support SOC and ISO assessments, identify remediation needs, and improve or automate GRC processes using approved tools and AI while protecting confidential information.

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.

Supports a bank’s material third-party register programme by assessing arrangements, coordinating stakeholder input, sourcing data from contracts and internal systems, maintaining accurate regulatory records, tracking progress, identifying data gaps, and escalating issues. The role requires strong organization, attention to detail, stakeholder management, Excel proficiency, and familiarity with third-party risk, outsourcing, or related financial-services controls.

Supports independent market risk oversight across equities businesses by monitoring exposures, limits, concentrations, sensitivities, and market movements. Produces risk reporting, dashboards, analytics, and management information; challenges trading desks; investigates and escalates breaches and data-quality issues; supports stress testing, scenario analysis, governance, automation, and risk-framework enhancements. Partners with Trading, Risk, Technology, Operations, Finance, and senior stakeholders to improve risk transparency, controls, reporting, and data workflows.

Supports business unit risk management for Equity and Fixed Income businesses by monitoring counterparty, credit, and market risk. Responsibilities include applying credit policies, setting trade-level limits, analyzing exposures and concentrations, tracking risk indicators, managing escalations, conducting scenario analysis, and improving reporting and controls. The role also drives automation initiatives, including margin calculation enhancements and workflow improvements, while collaborating with Trading, Sales, Credit, and Market Risk stakeholders.

Supports enterprise and operational risk management by designing, documenting, monitoring, and testing controls. Acts as a key user and administrator for the Protecht GRC system, supports RCSAs, produces data-driven reports, and provides second-line assurance. Partners with first-line teams and senior stakeholders to strengthen risk culture, governance, compliance, and organisational resilience.

Supports second-line risk monitoring, analysis, oversight, stress testing, and reporting, primarily across market risk. Responsibilities include monitoring interest rate, liquidity, and structural balance sheet risks; analysing exposures and trends; tracking risk appetite limits; supporting model risk and enterprise-wide risk activities; and developing dashboards and reporting tools using Excel, Power BI, and related analytical technologies.

Supports the first-line issue management lifecycle by maintaining accurate issue records, tracking remediation actions, monitoring ageing and closure readiness, performing data quality checks, and producing management information. The role also supports governance meetings, action tracking, audit-ready evidence, stakeholder follow-up, and continuous improvement of risk and control processes within a regulated financial services environment.

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.

Analyze daily trading P&L, positions, risk reports, limits, and market risks for gas and other commodity desks. Support product approvals, risk committees, audits, trading procedure compliance, and Endur system changes. Enhance reporting and automate risk processes using Excel, VBA, SQL, Python, machine learning, and artificial intelligence while communicating findings to senior management and stakeholders.

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.

Lead IT risk assessments, evaluate and document inherent and residual risks, partner with stakeholders to develop and monitor risk response plans, support enterprise IT risk and cyber security initiatives, maintain risk management procedures and best practices, and communicate risks across ITS and business units.

Develop, enhance, and validate quantitative risk models for derivatives and other financial products. Implement risk analytics solutions on the Atoti platform, analyze pricing and valuation methodologies, investigate exposures and hedging strategies, and collaborate with clients, quants, risk managers, and engineering teams. Translate quantitative requirements into scalable technology solutions while supporting client workshops, product innovation, and risk management analytics across multiple asset classes.

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.

Administer and improve the enterprise risk management framework and Protecht GRC platform. Facilitate risk and control self-assessments, manage risk data quality, workflows, alerts, permissions, reporting, and system enhancements. Support KRI and board reporting, committee packs, incident management, audits, regulatory queries, risk policies, training, and collaboration with operational risk, credit risk, compliance, IT, and business stakeholders.

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.

Support Kroo Bank’s operational risk framework through risk assessments, control reviews, RCSA oversight, issue and event management, control testing, KRI monitoring, and reporting. The role provides second-line advice and constructive challenge to business teams, analyzes operational risk trends, recommends control improvements, and prepares management information for senior management and the Board. It is a hybrid position based in London with weekly office attendance.

Solve ambiguous operational and risk problems through data analysis, workflow design, dashboards, monitoring, alerts, and lightweight automation. Analyze complex datasets, validate pipelines and safety signals, investigate anomalies, design quality controls, and support emerging-risk detection systems. Use AI tools with testing and human oversight, communicate findings and tradeoffs, and coordinate cross-functional handoffs across Operations, Product, Engineering, Data Science, Safety, Legal, and Support.

Supports global risk management across international energy operations by monitoring, analyzing, and reporting on market, credit, operational, and enterprise risks. Contributes to risk governance, reporting frameworks, strategic initiatives, transformation programs, and process improvements. Collaborates with teams across multiple countries while developing analytical and stakeholder management skills.

Develop and enhance market risk models, tools, metrics, limits, policies, and frameworks for power, gas, and environmental products. Analyze prices, liquidity, volatility, correlations, positions, P&L, scenarios, stresses, and value-at-risk. Review and backtest models, influence stakeholder decisions, manage committee approvals, and support operational readiness for new business activities and associated risks.

Supports the Head of Controls and Controls Testing Team by managing risk and control issues, reviewing closure evidence, prioritizing issues, supporting RCSA and control testing, conducting root cause analysis, and identifying thematic improvements. The role also enhances risk processes through systemization, reduced manual effort, and potential AI integration while providing structured reporting and stakeholder challenge across the bank.

Supports international insurance and risk management for data center development and operations. Responsibilities include insurance placements and renewals, construction and property coverage administration, claims coordination, contract and financing diligence, compliance tracking, stakeholder coordination, risk analysis, reporting, and transitions from construction insurance to operational coverage.