Technology Risk Analyst

What you'll be doing:

• Support the maintenance of Enterprise Technology risk registers, issue logs, action trackers, and supporting documentation.
• Assist with gathering risk updates from technology, security, assurance, resilience, and operational teams.
• Help prepare risk reporting, dashboards, meeting materials, and concise status updates for the Technology Risk Lead and wider Risk & Strategy team.
• Support basic risk and issue analysis, including identifying overdue actions, missing information, ownership gaps, and recurring themes.
• Maintain organised records of technology governing artefacts such as policies, frameworks, standards, and procedures, including review dates, owners, status, and publication readiness.
• Coordinate follow-up with artefact owners and subject matter experts to help keep governance materials current, accessible, and aligned to agreed processes.
• Support documentation quality checks, version control, and repository housekeeping for risk and governance materials.
• Assist with evidence gathering for assurance, audit, or governance activities where required.
• Use M365, workflow tools, reporting templates, and AI-enabled productivity tools to reduce manual effort and improve consistency.
• Contribute to a collaborative, practical, and continuous improvement culture within the new Risk & Strategy team.

What you'll need:

• A grounding in risk, governance, compliance, audit, cyber security, or a related area; extensive experience is not required.
• Strong organisational skills, attention to detail, and ability to follow through on actions and deadlines.
• Ability to work with structured information such as registers, trackers, documentation inventories, and reporting packs.
• Good written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to summarise information clearly and professionally.
• Comfortable working with a range of stakeholders and asking clear questions to clarify ownership, status, or next steps.
• Curiosity about automation, reporting improvement, and responsible use of AI to simplify routine risk and governance activity.
• A proactive, collaborative, and learning-oriented mindset.

Who you are:

• You're open: We are inclusive and collaborative; we encourage the free exchange of ideas; we respect and celebrate diverse views. We are open-minded: to new ideas, new partnerships, new ways of working.
• You're optimistic: We believe in the power of creativity, technology, and talent to create brighter futures for our people, our clients, and our communities. We approach all that we do with conviction: to try the new and to seek the unexpected.
• You're extraordinary: we are stronger together: through collaboration, we achieve the amazing. We are creative leaders and pioneers of our industry; we provide extraordinary every day.

What we'll give you:

• Passionate, inspired people – We aim to create a culture in which people can do extraordinary work.
• Scale and opportunity – We offer the opportunity to create, influence, and complete projects at a scale that is unparalleled in the industry.
• Challenging and stimulating work – Unique work and the opportunity to join a group of creative problem solvers. Are you up for the challenge?

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