Top Risk Analyst Jobs

Provide financial planning, budgeting, risk management, cost control, variance analysis, project controls, earned value management, and senior-management reporting. Advise managers and project teams on schedules, estimates, budgets, corrective actions, internal controls, and long-range planning. Monitor compliance with financial policies, contractual requirements, accounting principles, and industry standards. Lead initiatives, conduct benchmarking, support change management, participate in emergency response duties, and support biennial refueling outages.

Supports first-line business risk management through transaction appropriateness reviews, exception tracking, KRI reporting, risk analytics, control documentation, MPF oversight, audit support, and cross-functional follow-up. Maintains risk records and dashboards, analyzes exposures and trends, escalates breaches and concerns, and helps improve risk processes. Requires strong attention to detail, analytical and documentation skills, Excel proficiency, and familiarity with risk frameworks and three-lines-of-defense principles.

Build and maintain the U.S. Exchange risk governance framework, including risk assessments, controls, thresholds, incident reporting, policies, procedures, and risk registers. Partner with trading, product, legal, and operations teams to identify exposures, resolve issues, monitor regulatory developments, and ensure accountability. The role requires capital markets risk experience and the ability to implement practical frameworks in a regulated organization.

Underwrite and onboard customers to a payment processing platform by conducting KYC reviews, assessing financial, operational, and fraud risk, setting account limits and funding terms, monitoring portfolio risk, and improving controls. The role supports high-volume customer migrations, handles risk documentation and escalations, and collaborates cross-functionally to enable compliant activation and reduce customer friction in a fully remote environment.

Assists with developing and maintaining portfolio forecasting models supporting corporate planning, financing, and account servicing. Performs data mining, quantitative analysis, validation, visualization, and reporting on delinquency, losses, bankruptcies, payoffs, and other portfolio performance factors. Monitors trends, communicates forecasts and methodologies to management, and uses Excel, SQL or SAS, and AI tools to improve analysis and workflow efficiency.

Analyzes consumer lending and lease portfolio performance using data mining, reporting, visualization, spreadsheet modeling, SAS or SQL, and quantitative methods. Develops accurate, repeatable monitoring processes, validates results, identifies trends, and presents actionable recommendations to management. Partners with internal stakeholders to improve reporting solutions, conducts ad hoc research, and may guide junior analysts or lead projects.

Evaluates financial, operational, and regulatory risks; develops assessment scopes, conducts risk testing, identifies control deficiencies, and recommends mitigation and process improvements. Presents findings and remediation strategies to management, supports EPMO strategic portfolios, leads cross-functional projects, improves risk processes, maintains regulatory compliance, and mentors staff. The role also involves data synthesis, reporting, stakeholder collaboration, and potentially using Power BI or Tableau for dashboards and insights.

Lead development and maintenance of clearing house risk management and recovery policies, focusing on CFTC requirements. Draft policy positions, coordinate comment letters, advise senior management, support major clearing initiatives, and liaise with legal, trade associations, and internal stakeholders to assess regulatory impacts on CME Group and clients.

Provide analytical support and build advanced investment risk analytics and reporting. Monitor risk reporting architecture, produce performance and risk commentary, support new strategy on-boarding, lead special research projects, and collaborate with investment franchises and firm functions to enhance data, visualizations, and model setups.

Support risk and governance for custody and digital asset servicing. Identify, assess, and manage operational and regulatory risks across custody, ETF servicing, transfer agent activities and digital asset custody. Partner with operations, technology, and control functions to evaluate new products and changes, implement monitoring and self-assessment, review incidents, report to senior management, and promote risk awareness and training.

Support oversight of third-party data spend by managing monthly expense tracking, invoice reconciliation, month-end accruals, forecasting, variance reporting, and pricing analysis. Provide analytical support for contract negotiations, identify automation and AI opportunities, and support ad hoc financial analyses across stakeholders.

Support capital and liquidity risk management by building and applying quantitative models and analyses, monitoring risk and controls, forecasting stress test scenarios, validating models, and communicating data‑driven findings and mitigation recommendations to stakeholders and governance bodies.

Support enterprise operational risk activities including RCSAs, control validation and testing, findings management, business continuity planning, risk reporting and analytics, loss event data collection, risk technology (Archer) administration, stakeholder partnership, and special projects to strengthen risk management and resilience.

Monitor market and operational risk across natural gas, LNG, and related markets. Perform sensitivity, scenario, and stress analyses; track exposures and limits; support hedging evaluation; maintain risk registers and reports; validate data and reconciliations; collaborate with Trading, Middle Office, Project Controls, Finance, and IT to identify and mitigate risks.

Act as first-line risk professional supporting and executing risk programs. Engage business units to identify and document risks and controls, create process maps, assess control effectiveness, monitor compliance with policies and regulations, and coordinate with subject matter experts on regulatory, legal, and third-party risk issues while delivering timely project deliverables.

Support first-line risk programs by collecting data, documenting process maps and narratives, identifying risks and controls, assessing control effectiveness, and coordinating with risk SMEs and business units to remediate gaps and ensure regulatory compliance.

Analyze business and user needs, document requirements, and support implementation of technology solutions. Partner with business and technical teams to manage risk, improve processes, develop project plans, create documentation and training, and recommend automation and efficiency enhancements.

Support Balance Sheet Risk Management by monitoring liquidity metrics (LCR, NSFR), assisting internal liquidity stress testing (ILST), collaborating with Treasury, tech, and business partners, analyzing financial data, developing stress-testing methodologies, and producing regulatory and internal reporting for liquidity oversight.

Execute and manage risk and compliance testing programs to assess effectiveness of controls, conduct transaction testing and analytics, document findings, draft test summaries, collaborate with stakeholders, and support remediation and automation efforts.

Support and execute risk and control programs across business units. Collect and refresh risk data, document process maps and narratives, identify risks and controls, assess control effectiveness, and liaise with risk subject matter experts on issues including third parties, regulatory, and legal matters.

Lead capacity and commercial limits management for US GCS portfolios through analytics, underwriting strategies, capability development, cross-functional initiatives, and team leadership to drive prudent, profitable growth and improved customer experience.

Support day-to-day internal and external exam management, track and escalate risks, partner with ORM teams on audit/regulatory inquiries, develop consistent exam response processes, enforce policy compliance, and prepare materials for ORM leadership and committee review.

Develop, implement, and maintain counterparty credit risk models for fixed-income products across the full model lifecycle. Build infrastructure, analytics, dashboards, monitoring, benchmarking, and backtesting frameworks. Conduct quantitative research and provide day-to-day risk analysis while partnering with business, risk, technology, and governance stakeholders.

Support execution of the enterprise risk management program by conducting risk assessments, maintaining risk registers and KRIs, performing risk analysis, supporting RCSAs and third-party risk processes, preparing risk reports, tracking remediation, and coordinating with IT, security, and business units to embed risk awareness and prepare for regulatory exams.

Lead risk data governance, insurance renewal readiness, exposure tracking, and reporting. Collect, validate, reconcile, and report insurance and exposure data; build dashboards and analytics; coordinate renewals with brokers, carriers, finance, operations, and legal to inform underwriting and leadership decisions.