Risk Analyst
📍 Location: Work from Home with 20% travel
💰 Salary: £30-40k plus great benefits and bonus
📅 Job Type: Full-time, 6 month Contract to Permanent role

Are you looking to start or grow your career in risk management? If you have a keen eye for detail, strong analytical skills, and an interest in working within a growing business, this could be the role for you!

The main responsibilities for the role will be to support team members to help write, collate, and prepare audit and risk reports, so strong IT skills are essential. There is a strong trajectory to a manager role in a few years time within the organisation.

About the Firm
This medium-sized firm is at the heart of ensuring hundreds of customer branches are a safe and reliable way to access banking facilities. As a growing organisation, maintaining a strong risk culture while ensuring compliance with governance and operational frameworks is of huge importance to the board and members.

The Role
As a Risk Analyst, you will play a key role in supporting the Head of Risk and risk assurance team in delivering an effective risk management and controls strategy. You’ll gain hands-on experience in identifying, assessing, and monitoring risks, helping to strengthen risk controls, and ensuring compliance with key business processes.

Key Responsibilities
✅ Assist in identifying and managing key operational, strategic, and emerging risks.
✅ Support the development and implementation of risk management frameworks and internal audit processes.
✅ Conduct testing of the control environment and assist in internal audits.
✅ Help prepare reports and presentations for senior management, the Audit & Risk Committee, and the Board.
✅ Monitor compliance with key business processes, identifying areas for improvement.
✅ Work closely with risk and control owners to develop policies and procedures.
✅ Support the delivery of the Audit Plan in partnership with external audit suppliers.
✅ Assist in maintaining strong relationships with internal stakeholders and external partners.

What We’re Looking For
🔹 Some experience or exposure to risk management, compliance, or internal audit (e.g., through work experience, internships, or a junior role).
🔹 Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with attention to detail.
🔹 Ability to work independently and take initiative in a fast-paced environment.
🔹 Excellent communication and relationship-building skills.
🔹 Confidence in using data and reporting insights in a clear and structured way.
🔹 A curious and proactive mindset with a willingness to learn and develop.

Why Join Us?
🚀 Gain hands-on experience in risk management with a growing and impactful organisation.
📚 Career development opportunities with on and off-site training and mentoring support.
🤝 Work with a collaborative and supportive team.
🌍 Work from home, with expenses paid overnight fieldwork across the whole of the UK, for a great work-life balance.

If you’re ready to take the next step in your risk management career and want to be part of an organisation making a real impact, we’d love to hear from you!

📩 Apply Now! Paul Stanbridge Fleet Search + Selection Ltd

Audit/Controls/Assurance – Manager

Remote (with up to 20% travel)

£60,000–£70,000 per annum + 30 days holiday

Permanent or Contract

Our client is a growing organisation with a strong foundation and an open, collaborative culture. Working closely with their branches offering financial services, they’re committed to delivering robust controls and assurance frameworks that support their operations.

The Role:

We’re seeking an experienced Audit/Controls/Assurance Manager to build and manage our clients controls framework, ensuring key risks are identified, assessed, and addressed. Reporting directly to the Head of Risk, you’ll play a critical role in developing systems and processes and working closely with third-party specialists on larger regulatory reviews.

This is a home-based role with up to 20% travel, including visits to established branches and those in build phases.

Responsibilities:

• Controls Framework Development: Design and implement a controls framework to address key risk areas, 
  including:
• Processes
• Records management
• Training
• First-line insurance activities
• Supply chain management
• HSE
• Construction, Property and Building risk
• Branch audits

• Branch Audits: Conduct reviews to assess risks across operational, IT, and data activities, 
  ensuring adherence to high standards and compliance (e.g., DISP SOP rules).

• Collaborative Reviews: Partner with third-party providers on major 
  compliance and controls reviews.

• Reporting Systems: Build and enhance controls reporting systems to
  ensure actionable insights and oversight for key stakeholders.

• Health & Safety and Operations Resilience: Oversee audits and 
  controls related to health and safety, supplier management, and procurement.

• Complaint Audits: Monitor compliance with reporting, 
  i.e DISP SOP rules and other regulatory requirements.

About You:

To thrive in this role, you’ll need:

• A breadth of experience (and therefore familiarity with the governance risk and controls) in businesses
   that operate across multiple regional branches in a regulated client environment, with key risks including
  financial services, supplier management, property and construction, 
  and health and safety. 
• Strong expertise in building and managing control frameworks from the ground up.
• Experience conducting branch audits, ideally across diverse and evolving environments.
• Excellent knowledge of controls, operational risk, data management, and supplier assurance.
• A collaborative mindset with the ability to work closely with internal teams and third-party providers.
• Willingness to travel up to 20% of your time, including branch visits and site assessments.

What’s On Offer:

• A flexible, home-based role with limited travel.
• A friendly and supportive company culture.
• Opportunities to shape a rapidly evolving function in a growing organisation.
• Competitive salary and benefits, including 30 days of holiday.

Next Steps:

We’re looking to appoint this role as soon as possible. If you’re ready to bring your expertise to a dynamic team and 
help us build a best-in-class controls framework, we’d love to hear from you!

How to Apply:

Please submit your CV here or apply to Paul Stanbridge at Fleet Search.

Excellent opportunity for an experienced Auditor / Internal Auditor / Risk Assurance professional with large corporate experience to join a Global Banking Firm.

No previous Banking experience required!

You will be joining a small team and is an ideal position if you are from an Audit or Risk Assurance team in a Big4 / large practice firm looking for a more strategically important role within an investment / wholesale Banking firm, or have Internal Audit experience already and are looking for your second move.

You will work closely with the Head of Audit and senior team members and enjoy an open and honest dialogue with engaged high level stakeholders in an established banking brand. Working both independently and with like minded team members you will review interesting product lines from: Treasury, Corporate Credit, FX trading, and Private Banking to Risk and Compliance operations, within the London offices (and remotely on global Audits).

Internal mobility is actively encouraged and opportunities within the business will present themselves for upwards career progression.

Unfortunately this client are unable to sponsor VISA’s therefore you must be a UK citizen or have an unrestricted UK Visa to apply

Apply to Paul Stanbridge for more information or an informal conversation.

We are expecting a high degree of interest in this role and unfortunately won’t be able to reply to all applicants.

Strategic controls for high-risk operations of Global Financial Services Firm

If you are a newly qualified accountant (or equivalent) from a leading practice or consulting firm with experience in either Risk Management, Assurance, Internal Audit, Controls or Accounting for large corporate client accounts, we have an excellent opportunity for you to join a global brand with very strong career prospects.

As part of a team of like-minded professionals, you will be responsible for reviewing designated higher risk operations across front, middle and back office functions, report your findings and develop recommendations on mitigating controls weaknesses with your stakeholders. You will gain senior-level exposure across the firm, working alongside highly experienced professionals in a collaborative team environment. You will be given in house training and benefit from sponsored ongoing professional development.

You do not need prior financial services but it is advantageous.

To apply you must have:

• Large corporate firm / client experience
• Audit, Internal Audit, Accounting, Controls or Risk experience
• Good academic record
• Fully qualified ACCA, ACA, CA, CFA etc
• A full UK Visa

Apply to Paul Stanbridge with your CV to be considered for the role.

Job summary: Consultancy firm seeking senior professionals from a Big 4 / Consultancy background, with large investment Bank or Capital Markets clients experience in a Co-sourced / outsourced business model, offering Internal Audit, Risk Assurance, Compliance, Regulatory Risk Services.

Global firm has experienced strong growth in their Risk and Internal Audit consultancy services team and are now seeking to hire a Big 4 trained Senior Manager to help support the partners to continue to grow the now well established co-sourcing / outsourced risk services practice for large banking, capital markets and asset management clients. You will work closely with the Partners to help grow the business by using your senior level sector and industry knowledge to network and sell the firms services to current and new financial services clients.

The firm offer excellent work / life balance and have a genuinely engaged workforce and collegiate working practice.

Promotion prospects to Director and beyond.

The firm will consider sponsoring a UK VISA if the candidate has the requisite experience and is available to start in the UK in c.3 months time.

If you have recent Technology experience and are interested in living and working in Warsaw Poland, we have an excellent opportunity for you.

This is a rare opportunity for ANY top percentile technology professional with a good undergraduate degree and 0-4 years of experience within a large corporate firm OR for Information Technology / Computer Science graduates looking for their first role.

The role will be based exclusively in Warsaw, with a global reach from London to New York across the Banks bespoke infrastructure, networking, cybersecurity, and application technologies. Liaising with senior staff members in a collaborative team environment you will apply your specialist knowledge and skills reviewing the group’s IT operations controls and governance.

To apply you must have:

• A Polish UK or EU passport
• Excellent Academic Qualifications
• Computer / Information Technology experience/degree

Apply to Paul Stanbridge with your CV to be considered for the role

Director – Smaller Financial Services Practice, Internal Audit (attractive work life balance)

UK / EEA VISA required

London based role with small team of a global practice firm seeking an experienced Ex Head of Audit or Practice Director to lead / coach a team of auditors and help build the business.  The role oversees a portfolio of client work delivering fully outsourced / co-sourced internal audit and assurance assignments.

Responsibilities:

As an outsourced Head of Internal Audit, you will be responsible for the full lifecycle of planning, execution, reporting and committee meetings, lead client work, finalise scope with clients, overseeing team member delivery, and execute quality assurance reviews of internal audit files and reports.

As a Director you will be responsible for onboarding new clients, assessing fees and budgets, managing contracts, Billing, invoicing and recovery management. You will also assist in business development initiatives and create tender proposals leading presentations and target client visits. A small team of Associates, Managers and contract staff are in place who you will be responsible for direct line management, resource planning, recruitment and time management.

Knowledge:

• Internal Audit
• Compliance and Risk Management Frameworks (FCA)
• Conduct Risk Management
• Regulatory reporting (COREP / FINREP)
• Client Money and Assets (CASS)
• CRD IV

Ideally you will have a wide exposure to difference FS industries:

• Retail Banking
• Corporate Banking
• Investment Management and Wealth Management
• Securities, exchanges and trading services

Some travel across the south east UK and possibly overseas travel is required,

Apply to Paul Stanbridge for more information or an informal conversation.

Our client is a leading Financial Consultancy Firm with a significant Global and UK presence, and a diverse client base, ranging from large financial institutions to manufacturing, retail, technology, service industries, and public sector.  They are currently seeking to appoint a Manager level post within Business Risk, servicing Public Sector clients, providing input from a risk, assurance and audit perspective.

The Manager role is central to the running of this department, delivering excellent customer service to your clients, both internal and external.

Key Role Features

• Ensure assignments are scheduled and delivered on time and on budget
• Effectively manage existing client relationships
• Develop audit committee papers
• Attend committee meetings and lead client liaison meetings

Requirements

• Professional qualification, eg ACA, CA, ACCA etc
• Risk management experience of internal and external audit
• Experience of client work in the Public  Sector or Central Government
• Good business development and communication skills

Our client is a leading Financial Consultancy Firm with a significant Global and UK presence, and a diverse client base, ranging from large financial institutions to manufacturing, retail, technology, service industries, and public sector.  They are currently seeking to appoint an associate level post within their Business Risk Department.

Requirements
– Professional qualification, eg ACA, CA, ACCA etc
– Risk management experience of internal and external auditing
– Experience of client work in the Private Sector or Central Government
– Good business development and communication skills

This is a central role in the Business Risk Management Team.  The successful candidate will be responsible for the provision of necessary advice and help to clients, in order to enable them to manage and improve their business performance.

Role Description

• Prepare audit drafts and documentation
• prepare necessary fieldwork subsequent to review
• produce close out documentation
• Attend client meetings and contribute appropriately

Requirements

• Appropriate professional qualifications, eg ACA, CA, ACCA,MIIA
• Experienced in the use of using Microsoft packages, internet, email
• Experience of internal and auditing and risk management
• Competent in the preparation and delivery of presentations