Senior Risk Analyst, First Line

Unum UK

Senior Risk Analyst in First Line Risk at Unum, embedding risk management practices across operations. Collaborating with teams to identify and mitigate risks effectively.

Posted 6/19/2026full-timeDorking • 🇬🇧 United KingdomSeniorWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Leading and facilitating Risk & Control Self-Assessments (RCSAs), ensuring risks, controls and actions remain current and effective.
Supporting business projects and change initiatives by helping the business identify potential risks and controls early in the process.
Acting as a trusted risk partner to operational teams, helping translate risk concepts into clear, practical actions for non-risk stakeholders.
Overseeing the investigation and resolution of operational risk events and incidents, including root cause analysis and lessons learned activity.
Producing meaningful risk reporting, dashboards and management information for senior leaders and governance forums.
Building strong relationships across the business to drive accountability, challenge thinking and embed a positive risk culture.
Supporting operational resilience, business continuity and risk improvement initiatives when required.
Working closely with Second Line Risk teams to ensure alignment with regulatory expectations and risk frameworks.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Proven experience within operational risk, controls or governance roles, ideally within financial services or a regulated environment.
Strong hands-on experience leading or facilitating RCSA (Risk & Control Self-Assessment) activities.
Experience identifying, assessing and articulating risk impacts to a broad range of stakeholders, including those with limited risk knowledge.
The ability to provide practical, commercial risk advice while maintaining appropriate challenge and oversight.
Experience supporting projects or business change initiatives from a risk perspective.
Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret risk data, identify themes and present insights clearly.
Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the confidence to influence at multiple levels of the organisation.
Experience of incident management, risk event reviews and root cause analysis.
Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Health insurance
Professional development opportunities

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Hard Skills & Tools

Risk & Control Self-Assessment (RCSA)root cause analysisrisk reportingrisk assessmentincident managementrisk data interpretationrisk improvement initiativesoperational resiliencebusiness continuity

Soft Skills

analytical skillscommunication skillsstakeholder managementinfluencing skillsorganisational skillsrelationship buildingpractical risk advicechallenge oversightaccountability