Join us as a Market Risk Lead Analyst
- You’ll be influential in maintaining and developing a strong second line of defence across our Risk function
- We’ll look to you to manage the engagement with Risk functions to understand their respective requirements and strategic developments and deliver on the business’s responsibilities
- This is an exciting fast-paced role, where you’ll be able to hone your experience of market risk and advance your career
What you'll do
In your new role, you’ll make sure that Market Risk activities comply with the bank’s risk appetite and the risk management standards requested by our stakeholders.
We’ll look to you to develop and deliver a suite of risk metrics, making sure that these can effectively capture the risk which is managed.
You’ll also be:
- Keeping up to date with the regulatory environment in which the bank operates and helping to assess and implement any changes in the risk management framework
- Facilitating the articulation of risk appetite and limit frameworks in liaison with first line functions and governing bodies, at legal entity and divisional level for market risk
- Focusing on the relevant pricing desks
- Providing stress testing of relevant portfolios and bespoke stress tests based on market conditions
- Reviewing and challenging current risk methodologies and portfolio make up
The skills you'll need
We’re looking for someone with experience within a market risk function, ideally with exposure to and an understanding of capital, market or credit risk practices.
You’ll also need:
- A good understanding of financial products within Fixed Income and FX
- Knowledge of risk metrics and value at risk (VaR)
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- To demonstrate strong skills in Excel, with proficiency in Python and VBA
Hours
35Job Posting Closing Date:
28/05/2026Ways of Working:HybridSkills Required
- Experience within a market risk function
- Understanding of capital, market or credit risk practices
- Understanding of financial products within Fixed Income and FX
- Knowledge of risk metrics and value at risk (VaR)
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Strong skills in Excel, proficiency in Python and VBA
What We Do
We’re a business that understands when our customers and people succeed, our communities succeed, and our economy thrives. As part of our purpose, we’re looking at how we can drive change for our communities in enterprise, learning and climate. As one of the leading supporters of UK business, we’re prioritising enterprise as a force of change. We’re focusing on the people and communities who have traditionally faced the highest barriers to entry and figuring out ways to remove these. Learning is also key to our continued growth as a company in an ever changing and increasingly digital world. By setting a dynamic and leading learning culture, our people prosper, and our customers are given the tools to continue to improve their financial capability and confidence. One of the biggest challenges we all face in our future is climate change. That’s why we’ve put it right at the core of our purpose. We want to champion climate solutions with financing and entrepreneurial support, fully embed climate into our culture and decision making, and be climate positive by 2025. We’re committed to using our purpose to break down barriers, drive change and ultimately create a great place to work.
