Top Risk Jobs in Glasgow

Leads first-line risk and control advice across retail and customer operations, focusing on regulatory, conduct, and operational risk. Modernizes controls through AI, automation, data-led monitoring, preventative design, and reliable evidence. Advises stakeholders on governance, human oversight, explainability, and customer outcomes; identifies control weaknesses, supports change initiatives, reports to governance forums, and coaches colleagues on responsible AI and modern control practices.

Provides first-line regulatory risk advice to Retail and Group Customer Operations teams. Identifies, assesses, monitors, and mitigates conduct, operational, and regulatory risks; reviews regulatory requirements; designs and evidences effective controls; supports safe business and technology change; reports risk insights; and builds relationships across business and risk functions.

Manage first-line risk and control support across retail banking and customer operations. Provide regulatory, conduct, and operational risk advice; challenge business and change activities; assess control effectiveness; maintain risk profiles; support incident remediation; deliver reporting to governance forums; and evaluate regulatory change. Build stakeholder relationships, promote good customer outcomes, and potentially line-manage and develop risk professionals.

Provides first-line risk and control partnering across retail or customer operations. Advises on conduct, regulatory, and operational risk; identifies and monitors emerging risks and control weaknesses; supports control design, regulatory compliance, change initiatives, reporting, and governance. Builds relationships across business, change, and risk teams while providing objective challenge, actionable insight, and support for stronger risk culture and customer outcomes.

Leads first-line risk governance for Collections & Recoveries and Specialist Customer Support within a regulated financial services organization. Responsibilities include identifying and mitigating conduct, regulatory, and operational risks; maintaining risk profiles; designing risk and control frameworks; supporting executive governance and reporting; ensuring regulatory compliance; and leading, coaching, and developing risk professionals.

Provides independent second-line oversight of operational resilience and business continuity risks. Reviews resilience frameworks, methodologies, controls, reporting, regulatory compliance, Important Business Services, impact tolerances, mapping, scenario testing, and self-assessments. Challenges business leaders, identifies control gaps, advises on evolving regulatory expectations, refines risk policies, and reports resilience findings to senior management and risk committees.

Leads the design, maintenance, enhancement, and implementation of M&G’s group-wide Operational Risk Framework. Owns risk standards, methodologies, training, communications, and alignment with regulatory expectations, risk taxonomy, and risk appetite. Provides subject-matter expertise, stakeholder engagement, constructive challenge, and committee presentations across business areas. Translates methodologies into business and system requirements, monitors regulatory developments, and leads a specialist team of two.

Lead ownership of the Group Enterprise-Wide Risk Assessment (EWRA) and financial crime methodology. Challenge, aggregate and translate business unit risk assessments into Group-level insights. Maintain risk registers, jurisdiction heatmaps, watchlist/screening and exit frameworks. Engage senior stakeholders, present to Executive/Board committees, and drive continuous improvement across AML, sanctions, fraud, anti-bribery, KYC/CDD and third-party risk.

Provides second-line oversight and challenge across life insurance products, propositions, financial risks, insurance risks and ALM. Reviews product developments, repricing, lifecycle governance, investment strategies, reinsurance and risk-sharing arrangements. Advises senior stakeholders on risk appetite, regulatory requirements, customer outcomes, controls and governance. Leads thematic reviews and assurance activity, prepares committee materials, and translates complex actuarial, financial, regulatory and commercial issues into practical recommendations.

A 12-month industrial placement within Nationwide’s Risk function, supporting compliance and regulatory affairs, economic crime, or operational risk oversight. Responsibilities include analyzing risks, interpreting regulations, assessing controls, supporting governance and strategic projects, improving business processes, and engaging stakeholders. The placement includes structured learning, collaborative projects, and opportunities to develop problem-solving, communication, analytical, business improvement, and AI-related skills.

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.

Leads Tide’s global second-line financial risk function, owning the financial risk management framework and providing independent oversight of finance and treasury activities. Responsibilities include monitoring capital, liquidity, concentration and resilience risks; maintaining risk appetite metrics and policies; challenging liquidity forecasts and stress assumptions; supporting regulatory engagements, audits and licensing; reporting to boards and risk committees; assessing new products and markets; and managing a high-performing global team.

Provides second-line oversight of consumer and small-business credit risk across lending products. Analyzes portfolio performance, develops monitoring metrics, challenges credit strategies, leads thematic assurance reviews, collaborates on model validation, supports stress testing and forecasting, and maintains the Credit Risk Framework. Partners with first-line teams on product launches and strategy changes while communicating risk insights to stakeholders and committees.

Run the UK entity (CBPL) risk framework and contribute to global operational risk programs. Lead RCSAs, incident management, KRIs/KCIs, outsourcing and resilience work; provide 2LoD challenge to products and change, build risk MI for senior forums, coach first-line leaders, and help design global ORM programs and dashboards.

Participate in a 24-month rotational analyst program supporting BNY’s risk and compliance activities. Analyze information, identify trends, assess risk management practices, and assist with governance reviews, reporting, documentation, monitoring, and compliance efforts. Gain exposure to credit, market, liquidity, technology, operational, compliance, model, and enterprise risk while collaborating with global teams and developing analytical, communication, and risk management skills.

Supports enterprise risk and compliance activities through framework application, risk analysis, trend identification, governance reviews, reporting, documentation, and monitoring. The 24-month rotational program provides exposure to credit, market, liquidity, technology, operational, compliance, model, and enterprise risk while developing analytical, communication, judgment, and stakeholder collaboration skills.

Design insurance pricing, reserving, forecasting, and portfolio-risk scenarios for AI model training. Create actuarial analyses and reference answers, evaluate AI outputs for quantitative and methodological accuracy, identify unsupported assumptions and errors, and provide structured feedback. The role requires explaining actuarial methods and business implications to technical and nontechnical audiences while participating in calibration and onboarding sessions.

Lead UK regulatory strategy, risk governance, and compliance operations for BJAK’s market entry and expansion. Build compliance frameworks, policies, controls, monitoring, testing, and reporting covering AML, KYC, data privacy, consumer duty, distribution, claims, complaints, and product compliance. Serve as the primary FCA contact, oversee regulatory readiness, guide business strategy, manage remediation, and train cross-functional teams. The role requires building the compliance function from scratch in partnership with the CEO.

Lead quality assurance reviews of transaction monitoring investigations, enforce QA rubrics, perform root cause analysis, and deliver metrics and dashboards. Drive calibration, training, and cross-functional remediation with Compliance, Operations, Analytics, and L&D to improve AML/CFT case consistency and operational performance.

As Global Risk Manager, oversee compliance with risk processes, lead commercial teams, develop pricing strategies, and manage project risks to ensure profitability.