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About the Role
This Group Risk role operates within the Second Line of Defence, providing independent oversight of non-financial and strategic risks for Analytics and Commercial AI activities. The role supports Data & Analytics risk coverage, addressing the cross-cutting impact of analytics capabilities, models, and platforms. It aids in adopting sophisticated analytics, machine learning, predictive models, and Generative AI by offering independent risk insight throughout the business lifecycle. The role partners with Product, Analytics, Engineering, Legal, Compliance, and specialist Risk teams to identify, assess, and articulate risk, enabling informed decision-making and responsible innovation. Reporting to the Director, Head of Risk – Analytics & Commercial AI, this position requires excellent judgment, business acumen, and the ability to apply risk thinking to new technologies, especially AI. The individual will engage and influence senior technical and non-technical partners, deliver clear risk opinions, and guide the business through evolving regulations, emerging risks, and rapid technological change.
Responsibilities
- Provide oversight across BAU, transformation, and AI-led activity.
- Assess risk and control maturity using understanding of Analytics’ strategy, products, data, and operating model.
- Challenge issues and remediation efforts.
- Identify emerging risks.
- Oversee key business, technology, data, and AI initiatives, ensuring risks are identified, managed, and escalated.
- Deliver practical insight through targeted reviews and deep-dives to support investment decisions, product development, and strategic outcomes.
- Provide clear reporting for senior leadership and governance forums.
- Support AI governance and approvals in collaboration with Product, Engineering, Legal, Compliance, Privacy, and specialist Risk teams.
- Shape AI practices as capabilities evolve.
- Track regulatory and market developments to strengthen oversight and support broader D&A risk coverage.
Requirements
- Deep enterprise risk management experience, ideally within financial markets infrastructure, data, analytics, fintech, or regulated financial services.
- Strong understanding of risk management frameworks, governance, risk assessments, issue management, and control maturity evaluation.
- Knowledge of AI governance, model risk, cyber risk, third-party risk, privacy, and financial services regulatory expectations.
- Excellent executive communication skills, with the ability to distill complex risk issues into clear, committee-ready insights and recommendations.
- Strong partner management and influencing skills across Legal, Compliance, Product, Technology, Data, Privacy, Strategy, and senior leadership.
- Knowledge of financial instruments, pricing models, and risk analytics, including market, credit, or counterparty risk, would be advantageous.
- Ability to connect detailed risk analysis to broader strategic, operational, and business outcomes.
- Experience using external sources, including regulatory publications, corporate disclosures, industry research, and financial media, to inform risk assessments.
- Excellent judgment and credibility to provide constructive challenge and influence decision-making at senior management level.
- Adaptable and effective in dynamic, fast-paced, and evolving business environments.
Skills
- Enterprise risk management
- Risk management frameworks
- Governance
- Risk assessments
- Issue management
- Control maturity evaluation
- AI governance
- Model risk
- Cyber risk
- Third-party risk
- Privacy
- Financial services regulatory expectations
- Executive communication
- Partner management
- Influencing skills
- Financial instruments knowledge
- Pricing models knowledge
- Risk analytics knowledge
- Market risk
- Credit risk
- Counterparty risk
- Strategic thinking
- Operational thinking
- Business outcomes analysis
- External source analysis (regulatory publications, corporate disclosures, industry research, financial media)
- Judgment
- Adaptability
Location
- London
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Manager
Benefits
- Healthcare
- Retirement planning
- Paid volunteering days
- Wellbeing initiatives
About the Company
- London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) is a leading global financial markets infrastructure and data provider.
- Our purpose is driving financial stability, empowering economies and enabling customers to create sustainable growth.
- Our values of Integrity, Partnership, Excellence and Change underpin our purpose and set the standard for everything we do.
- We are a dynamic organisation of 25,000 people across 65 countries.
- We value individuality and enable employees to bring their true selves to work.
- We are committed to sustainability across our global business.
- We partner with our customers to help them meet their sustainability objectives.
- The LSEG Foundation provides charitable grants to community groups that help people access economic opportunities and build a secure future with financial independence.
- Colleagues can get involved through fundraising and volunteering.
Equal Opportunity
- We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer.
- We do not discriminate on the basis of anyone’s race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law.
- Conforming with applicable law, we can reasonably accommodate applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs.