# Senior Operational Risk Analyst

**Company**: Ford
**Location**: Dunton
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Automotive

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## Description

Are you an experienced Operational Risk professional looking to make a real impact in a fast-moving, regulated environment? We're looking for a Senior Operational Risk Analyst to join our second-line risk function and help strengthen the organisation's risk culture, oversight, and resilience.

In this role, you'll act as a trusted advisor to the business,providing challenge, guidance, and insight on operational risk matters. You'll play a key part in shaping risk frameworks, supporting key governance forums, and ensuring that risk management practices remain robust, forward-looking, and compliant with regulatory expectations.

**Key Responsibilities:**

- Provide second-line review, challenge, and guidance to ensure effective identification, assessment, and mitigation of Operational Risks across the business.

- Support first-line teams in analysing and monitoring key Operational Risk drivers.

- Review outputs from core Operational Risk processes (e.g., risk assessments, risk maps, incident reporting, action plans) and present insights to senior stakeholders and risk committees.

- Stay up to date on emerging risks, industry trends, and regulatory developments, integrating this knowledge into your advisory work.

- Act as the subject matter expert for Operational Risk and a key contact for teams across the organisation.

- Lead second-line oversight of supplier and outsourcing risk, including critical suppliers and exit planning.

- Provide second-line challenge and validation for change initiatives, ensuring risks are properly assessed and managed throughout the change lifecycle.

- Work collaboratively with other risk and resilience teams, including IT risk, cyber security, and compliance.

**Governance & Framework Development:**

- Contribute to key risk and compliance committees by providing clear, informed Operational Risk insights.

- Lead on developing, updating, and embedding Operational Risk policies, frameworks, and procedures to ensure alignment with regulatory standards.

- Support continuous improvement of governance processes and the broader Operational Risk framework.

- Contribute to the development and maintenance of the Operational Risk Management System (GRC platform).

**Qualifications:**

- Operational Risk experience within the second line of defence in a UK-regulated financial services environment.

- Strong understanding of Operational Risk areas including conduct, compliance, cyber, and IT.

- Experience working within FCA and/or PRA regulatory frameworks.

- Proven ability to use risk assessment tools such as risk maps, thematic reviews, and opinion papers.

- Strong knowledge of Three Lines of Defence principles.

- Experience delivering Operational Risk training to first-line teams.

- Familiarity with governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) systems.

- Experience conducting second-line testing and oversight reviews.

- A bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Risk, or a related field (master's degree or relevant professional certification is a plus).

**Skills and Competencies:**

- Resilient and adaptable, able to handle high-pressure situations and provide advice within short timescales.

- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, with a strong attention to detail.

- Strong communication and presentation skills, both written and verbal, including to Senior Management and Non-Exec Director Level.

## Skills

### Required
- Operational Risk
- Risk Assessment
- Risk Management
- Compliance
- Cyber Security
- IT Risk
- Governance
- Risk Frameworks
- Regulatory Standards