Northreach
Risk & Controls Analyst
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Risk & Controls Analyst
£40,000–£50,000 | Permanent
Datchet, Berkshire | Hybrid – two days per week on-site
We are supporting an established, FCA-regulated financial-services business in building a new independent risk and controls assurance function.
Two positions are available, with scope to consider both developing analysts and more experienced assurance professionals. The more senior hire will help establish the function, while the other will support its continued development and delivery.
This is not a software-testing role. You will independently assess whether important operational and regulatory controls are appropriately designed and working effectively across the business.
The opportunity
Working closely with the Head of Risk, you will deliver risk-based reviews against an agreed annual assurance plan. You will gather evidence, test controls, identify weaknesses and communicate clear, practical findings to senior stakeholders.
Reviews could cover:
- Customer onboarding and ongoing monitoring
- Sanctions screening, SARs and financial-crime controls
- Counterparty monitoring
- Supplier and third-party oversight
- Customer service and conduct risk
- Card renewals and operational processes
- IT and data-related controls
- First-line quality assurance activity
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You will typically complete one or two reviews each month, taking ownership from initial scoping and testing through to reporting and remediation follow-up.
Key responsibilities
- Plan and deliver independent controls-testing and assurance reviews
- Assess control design and operating effectiveness
- Select samples and review supporting evidence
- Identify control gaps, root causes and potential regulatory risks
- Produce concise, evidence-based findings and recommendations
- Constructively challenge control owners and senior stakeholders
- Track remediation actions and validate that issues have been resolved
- Identify recurring themes, emerging risks and improvement opportunities
- Produce clear management information for senior governance forums
- Help develop the assurance methodology, testing templates and annual review plan
What we are looking for
Testing experience is essential. Your background could be in:
- Controls testing
- Operational risk
- Compliance monitoring
- Internal audit
- Risk assurance
- Financial-crime quality assurance
- First-line risk and controls
You should also be able to demonstrate:
- Experience working within a regulated organisation
- A practical understanding of internal controls
- Strong written reporting and evidence-documentation skills
- Confidence explaining findings and challenging stakeholders
- A self-starting approach and ability to manage reviews independently
- Good Excel capability, including filtering, analysis and pivot tables
- The ability to attend the Datchet office twice each week
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Financial-services experience is preferred, particularly within banking, payments, cards, lending, insurance or foreign exchange. Candidates from other highly regulated industries will also be considered.
Experience using Power BI, basic SQL queries or AI tools to improve assurance processes would be advantageous but is not essential.
Why consider this opportunity?
- Join a newly created function with genuine scope to influence how it develops
- Work directly with an experienced Head of Risk
- Gain exposure across multiple business functions and risk areas
- Take ownership of meaningful reviews rather than repeating narrow checks
- Present findings that influence senior decision-making
- Develop broader operational risk and assurance expertise
If you have hands-on testing experience and want to help build a modern, independent controls-assurance function, we would be interested in hearing from you.
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