Risk Analyst – Global Risk Management
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Risk Analyst – Global Risk Management
Location: London
Salary: Negotiable
Hybrid Working
About GLAS
GLAS is an international provider of institutional debt administration services, serving lenders, borrowers, issuers, and advisers offering a global platform across Loan Agency and related services, Capital Markets and Restructuring.
GLAS’ vision is to be recognised as the best-in-class independent, non-creditor, conflict-free provider of institutional debt administration services, enabling global clients and counterparties to achieve successful outcomes on their transactions.
The business currently comprises c.500 employees who deliver a solution-based, innovative service, ensuring GLAS is the preferred global partner of choice. GLAS has a blue-chip customer base developed over many years; select clients include Apollo, Blackstone, CVC, Deutsche Bank and Goldman Sachs. GLAS has been recognised as the premier independent provider of loan agency and bond trustee services with a portfolio of over $800 billion assets across its global platform. The company is headquartered in London with offices in Paris, Frankfurt, Madrid, New York, New Jersey, Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Singapore, Dubai, Hong Kong, Milan and Rome.
The role of a Risk Analyst
As a Risk Analyst within the Global Risk Management team, you will play a key role in strengthening and enhancing the firm’s overall control environment. This position requires a well-rounded understanding of risk management principles and control best practices across both the first and second lines of defence.
The Risk Management function at GLAS operates as a centralised, global, and cross-asset class team, partnering closely with Senior Management and business units to ensure risks are effectively identified, assessed, and managed within the firm’s risk appetite.
This role offers the opportunity to work in a highly visible function with broad exposure across the business, contributing directly to the firm’s governance, risk oversight, and strategic decision-making.
Roles and Responsibilities
- Responsible for assisting with the collation of Key Risk Indicators and risk meeting data points
- Produce the minutes for the regional risk meetings
- Involved with the review and follow ups required to ensure that incidents logged reflect the issue, identify the control gaps and that the action items correctly remediate the issue
- Assist with the preparation of risk presentations and case studies of incidents
- Assists with global risk initiatives, thematic risk reviews and other remediation/assurance work that delivers concrete risk reduction/mitigation.
- Participate in the ongoing enhancements to the existing risk system and the build out of the future RCSA tool
- Develop an understanding of the roles, processes and key operational risks and challenges encountered by each team within GLAS globally including the regional nuances
- Promotes a strong risk and control culture, positive learning environment, contribute to risk awareness training and development, and help to ensure that learnings and best practices are shared in an effective way.
- Proactively drives the identification, assessment, and mitigation of operational risk.
- Assist with regulatory reporting and audit information requests
- Promote a strong governance culture which is embedded within the teams.
Key skills and experience required are:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent
- 2+ years’ experience in Risk Management in financial markets
- Entrepreneurial business focus
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Demonstrable time-management skills and attention to detail
Benefits
- Base salary + bonus
- Hybrid working
- 28 days annual leave + bank holidays
- Long service award
- Private Medical Insurance
- Private pension plan
- Life insurance plan
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Season ticket loan scheme
- Yearly eye examination
- Gym membership discount
- Career development and study support
About GLAS
It is our people who make GLAS successful, and we strive to recruit and retain the best people and operate in an environment underpinned by inclusivity, diversity, and opportunity. We recognise that a more inclusive workplace allows ideas and a variety of points of view to trigger discussions or deliver innovative results.
Besides, we want people at GLAS to be successful - we are committed in your career development. We truly believe in and live by our values of stepping in, stepping up and standing out.
In addition to our commitment to a diverse workforce we are also happy to talk about flexible working to support