Financial Risk Analyst - 9-month FTC - Immediate Start

Location: Earl Shilton, Leicester, LE9

Salary: £35K pro rata

A great opportunity to be part of a digital transformation project for a customer focused financial services organisation, where the customer is the forefront of all projects. Reporting to the Transformation Change Manager, you will be a change-maker with expertise in FCA regulated risk and compliance. You will play a critical role in the risk mitigation and management within a transition to cutting-edge cloud-based banking platforms using agile delivery models.

This role demands a solid understanding of customer processes and the associated risk levels.

It also requires the ability to make prompt, well-informed decisions and to confidently challenge the business when necessary.

Your work will play a pivotal role in shaping the business's evolution by ensuring risks are properly understood and documented.

This is an excellent opportunity to deepen your expertise in a field that is currently niche-but is expected to become a standard practice across institutions in the near future.

Responsibilities of the Financial Risk Analyst:

* Share your knowledge with our team through demos, meetings, and more. We value continuous learning and provide you with the platform to keep growing.
* Work closely with business stakeholders, and several 3rd Party Suppliers.
* Form part of the delivery team and ensure that risk is considered in all operational processes.
* Work with both technical teams and business stakeholders to ensure that all deliverables align with our company's technology and information strategies and risk is appropriately managed
* Collaborate with stakeholders to map 'as is' and 'to be' processes, providing a risk view of requirements supporting driving continuous improvement.
* Document all processes
* Review impact of changes to customer journey and changing risks as well as risk level
* Understand FCA compliance and regulatory compliance.
* Attend scrum sessions and provide stakeholder updates
* Ensure that our software meets business needs and risks are mitigated throughout

Requirements:

* Demonstrated ability to analyse complex requirements and assess risk within a financial services organisation
* Experience in development of Operational processes and assessing risk
* Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to explain complex issues to both technical and non-technical audiences.
* Proven ability to work collaboratively across functional areas and influence stakeholders at all levels.
* Confidence and ability to challenge
* Self-Motivated with a drive to succeed and deliver results
* Hands-on approach