Top Risk Analyst Jobs in London

Provides end-to-end middle-office support for XVA trading across Rates, FX, credit derivatives, and cash products. Responsibilities include trade capture and lifecycle management, risk and P&L reporting, reconciliations, trade-break resolution, operational controls, settlements support, and change initiatives. Partners with Trading, Sales, Product Control, Finance, Operations, and Technology teams to resolve discrepancies, improve processes, maintain governance documentation, and support regulatory and technology-driven transformation.

Analyze credit risk for EMEA corporate clients across diversified industries, including investment-grade and leveraged finance borrowers. Responsibilities include monitoring financial performance, liquidity, covenants, risk exposures, and refinancing risk; conducting due diligence; preparing credit memos; recommending facilities and limits; supporting lending and bond approvals; and collaborating with banking, capital markets, and credit 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.

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.

The Liquidity Risk Analyst will prepare liquidity risk reports, conduct and improve stress testing, support regulatory documentation, assess risks from new products, and collaborate with Treasury, Trading, Quantitative, Operations, Data, and Finance teams. The role also includes process automation, data analysis, ad hoc projects, and maintaining regulatory knowledge. This is a fully onsite position in London, five days per week.

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 third-party risk management across the supplier lifecycle, including supplier segmentation, risk assessments, due diligence, monitoring, remediation tracking, governance, reporting, and audit coordination. The role maintains supplier risk records, produces dashboards and management information, collaborates with Procurement, Risk, Supplier Management, business stakeholders and suppliers, and identifies improvements to processes, controls, systems and data.

Manage credit risk for a portfolio of motor dealers and wholesale relationships. Responsibilities include complex credit reviews, financial analysis, risk-rating assessments, portfolio monitoring, covenant tracking, early-warning identification, provisions reporting, stock-audit reviews, restructuring recommendations, and credit-limit approvals. The role also involves stakeholder engagement, dealer visits, legal documentation support, mentoring analysts, and ensuring compliance with credit policy and Consumer Duty.

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.

Supports enterprise risk management across AXIS Capital by preparing risk reports, assisting with stress and scenario testing, coordinating data and assumptions, supporting internal model validation, maintaining risk systems, and conducting risk assessments. The role requires strong analytical, reporting, communication, organization, and problem-solving skills, with insurance or financial services experience preferred.

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.

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.

Supports FX risk and compliance operations by monitoring trading activity, investigating rule breaches, conducting KYC/AML and sanctions screening, maintaining policies and audit records, tracking FCA and ESMA developments, preparing management reports, and supporting GDPR compliance. Works with FX, Support, and Operations teams to resolve compliance issues and escalate documented findings.

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.

Conducts client-focused analytics using credit reference data, statistical methods, Python, and SQL. Delivers credit strategy, model development, and bespoke analytical projects; analyzes multiple data sources, communicates actionable insights, and collaborates with internal and external stakeholders to develop commercial solutions.

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 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.

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.

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.