A leading Professional Services organization is seeking a Risk & Controls Associate Analyst on a contract basis to work on a project with an Asset & Wealth Management Investment Bank.

This role is full time onsite Monday-Friday 08.30am-18.30pm in Birmingham.

We are looking for a Risk & Controls Analyst Associate to serve as a member of the Monitoring & Testing function in Birmingham, a critical role within the Asset & Wealth Management Strategic Transformation Office. By executing monitoring and testing processes and identifying potential risks and control weaknesses, this position contributes directly to the firm's success by ensuring regulatory compliance, protecting client assets, and improving operational efficiency.

Experience Required:

• Solid understanding of the Asset & Wealth Management franchise and experience within a risk management context are required
• An energetic self-starter with strong control mindset with a passion for risk management
• Excellent communication skills to clearly articulate issues and ideas with different levels across Asset & Wealth Management stakeholders
• Strong analytical skills with an ability to understand complex workflows, and excellent attention to details
• Innovative, including a keen eye for identifying areas of control enhancements and automation which have practical value.
• Good influencing skills to challenging the status quo and continuously enhance the control environment
• Ability to perform data analytics using metrics to identify trends and themes
• Sound time management skills to be able to effectively prioritize and multi-task.
• A mentor/coach to the juniors in the team
• Drive and motivation to improve personal performance, broaden knowledge, work intensely towards extremely challenging goals, and persist in the face of obstacles or setbacks
• Good interpersonal and teamwork skills to collaborate as a global team and build strong relationship with key stakeholders across Divisions
• Keeps current with emerging business, economic and market trends
• Aptitude handling large data sets, synthesizing a variety of information to summarise a profile
• Track record of delivering and enhancing measurable, impactful business outcomes and products