Customer Protection and Market Practices Risk Lead Analyst, Vice President

Overview

In this VP role, you shape and deliver the risk and control framework for Markets to safeguard clients and uphold market integrity. You’ll partner with Front Office, Compliance, and Internal Audit to identify, assess, and manage conduct and regulatory risks across a global trading business. You drive governance, risk insights, and timely issue resolution in a first-line of defence context. This is a chance to influence decisions at senior levels and strengthen risk controls in a complex environment.

Pay / Benefits

• Generous holiday allowance
• Annual performance-related bonus
• Private medical insurance
• Employee Assistance Program
• Pension Plan
• Paid Parental Leave

Responsibilities

• Plan and execute risk assessments with structured challenge processes to produce actionable risk insights
• Analyse risk monitoring data to identify trends, emerging risks, and patterns for senior management decisions
• Support stakeholders with deep dives on risk and control gaps to drive timely resolution
• Coordinate periodic risk appetite assessments and escalate exposures to governance forums
• Build strong working relationships with Front Office, Compliance, Operational Risk, and Internal Audit across markets
• Act as subject matter resource on customer protection and market practices risk across all three lines of defence
• Proactively identify risks, issues, and dependencies and escalate appropriately for timely resolution

Key requirements

• Background in risk management, compliance, or controls within financial services with end-to-end risk management capability
• Solid knowledge of risk identification, control evaluation, monitoring frameworks, and regulatory reporting
• Analytical, data-driven problem-solving capable of translating outputs into recommendations
• Hands-on experience with SQL, Python, or Excel VBA for risk analysis; background in risk/control management systems
• Excellent written and verbal communication, with ability to present to senior stakeholders
• Ability to navigate a large, matrixed organisation and collaborate with regional/global partners
• Strong relationship-building across business units, legal, compliance, and audit
• Self-motivated, resilient, organised with ability to manage competing priorities
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Word)
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent university-level qualification

• Analytical thinking
• Cross-functional collaboration
• Effective communication
• SQL
• Python
• Excel VBA

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