Asset Risk and Investment Specialist

Are you passionate about using data, risk analysis, and strategic thinking to drive smarter investment decisions?

At Affinity Water, we're looking for an Asset Risk and Investment Specialist to play a key role in how we invest in and manage our vital water infrastructure. You'll help identify where investment can deliver the greatest value, balancing risk, performance, customer outcomes, and long-term sustainability.

Working with colleagues across Asset Management, Operations, Engineering, and Finance, you'll analyse asset performance, develop risk-based investment recommendations, and support decision-making that keeps our network resilient for the future.

What You'll Be Doing

• Assess asset health, performance, and risk to support investment decisions.

• Develop and improve asset deterioration and risk models.

• Analyse complex data to identify investment priorities and opportunities.

• Support long-term investment and asset management planning.

• Work with stakeholders across the business to deliver evidence-based recommendations.

• Help optimise investment strategies to maximise value and minimise risk.

What We're Looking For

• Experience in asset management, asset strategy, investment planning, risk analysis, or a related field.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

• Experience working with large datasets and investment modelling tools.

• Ability to communicate technical information to a range of audiences.

• Degree-qualified in Engineering, Asset Management, Mathematics, Data Analytics, or a related discipline, or equivalent experience.

Why Join Us?

• Influence strategic, multi-million-pound investment decisions.

• Work on projects that directly impact customers and the environment.

• Hybrid working and flexible benefits.

• Join a collaborative team focused on innovation, sustainability, and continuous improvement.

Advert Closes - 25th October 2026

Benefits:

• Salary from £54,000 dependant on skills and experience

• Learning and development opportunities, including mentoring and a range of formal courses and open learning resources.

• Entry into the company annual bonus scheme.

• Annual leave from 26-30 rising with length of service, and the option to purchase up to 5 extra days.

• A ‘Celebration Day’ in addition to public holidays that people can use to celebrate a religious festival or other occasion that is important to them.

• A generous 'double match pension scheme' that doubles the contributions you make (company contribution capped at 12%)

• We offer a range of family benefits including enhanced Maternity, Adoption, Paternity, Shared Parental Leave, Fertility Support Leave and up to 5 full or 10 half days of paid Carers Leave.

• Menopause policy and Reasonable Adjustment policy to help everyone perform at their best.

• Access to our Wellbeing Centre with support for looking after your physical and mental health.

• Discounts at a Range of Retail Outlets through our Tap4Perks scheme

• Discounts on Dental and Medical Insurance through our Tap4Perks scheme through salary sacrifice

• Up to 4 Affinity days a year to volunteer in the community.

• Life Assurance.

Disability Confident

As a Disability Confident employer, we’re committed to offering interviews to disabled candidates who meet the essential criteria and opt in on the application form. Ask the Talent Acquisition lead for the full job description to see all the criteria. If we have a very high volume of applicants and we’re not able to offer interviews to all, we’ll take a fair and proportionate number of disabled candidates through.

Affinity Water recognises the benefits of greater diversity in our workforce to better reflect the communities we serve. We are committed to building a more inclusive culture where every member of our workforce can thrive.

You can find out what it’s like to work at Affinity Water through our career site https://www.affinitywatercareers.co.uk/ where our colleagues share their career development stories and you can get a feel for our company culture.