Risk MI & Insights Analyst

Business Unit: Group RiskLocation: UK flexible with occasional travel to Glasgow or Gosforth hub  Salary: Circa £40,000 per annum per annum DOE + red-hot benefitsLive to challenge the status quo. Live a life more Virgin.

Our Team 

This is an exciting time to join Economic Crime Risk, a second line of defence function. Our Governance & Insights team is looking for an experienced Governance & Insights Analyst to support us in our contribution to the Virgin Money purpose: to protect customers and stop bad people doing bad things through our firm.

As Risk Governance & Insights Analyst, you'll be key in ensuring all Economic Crime matters are effectively covered through governance and insights. Your time will be split between two key areas of focus: support for governance and reporting and support for building MI and insights capability. 

What you'll be doing 

Be able to build MI & Insights capability:

• Support development and production of consistent, accurate & timely MI to support reporting by managers and senior leaders, ensuring issues are escalated as required.
• Data analysis of monthly EC MI identifying trends and areas of further investigation using multiple sources and cleansing data with Excel and Power BI.
• Ensure appropriate governance documentation is in place for EC MI production and maintain this documentation as MI requirements change.
• Support with technical aspects of projects including the Business Wide Risk Assessment with the use of Excel and PBI for data manipulation, report collation, ad hoc reporting requests.
• Ability to deal with a wide range of stakeholder at all levels within the business. 

Be proficient in Governance & Reporting:

• Support monthly board reporting cycle for all Economic Crime matters, e.g. production of a monthly SMF17 report, Risk Appetite Statement metrics, etc.
• Maintain the Economic Crime calendar of events to ensure deliverables across the team are managed and co-ordinated.
• Support in the production of required materials for 2LOD EC governance meetings and additional forums.
• Support with the coordination of risk and controls across the team.

We need you to have 

• Experience working within a governance environment.
• Experience working in reporting or a MI role. 
• Experience using MS Excel and PowerBI to produce reports/MI.
• Track record of analysing data to reach fact-based conclusions.
• Good stakeholder management and ability to form effective relationships with stakeholders across the organisation.
• Practical experience working with Microsoft products including Word, PowerPoint and Office.

We'd love you to have

• Experience using SQL and Power Query.
• Experience of the VMUKs core systems.
• Knowledge of Financial Crime policy & procedures.

Red Hot Rewards

• Generous holidays - 38.5 days annual leave (including bank holidays and prorated if Part–Time) plus the option to buy more.
• Up to five extra paid well-being days per year. 
• 20 weeks paid, gender-neutral family leave (52 weeks in total) for expectant parents and those looking to adopt. 
• Market-leading pension.
• Free private medical cover, income protection and life assurance.
• Flexible benefits include Cycle to Work, wellness and health assessments, and critical illness. 

And there's no waiting around, you'll enjoy these benefits from day one.

Feeling insatiably curious about this role? If we're lucky to receive a lot of interest, we may close the advert early and would hate you to miss out.

We're all about helping you Live a Life More Virgin, so happy to talk flexible working with you.

Say hello to Virgin MoneyWe're making great strides towards achieving our ambition of becoming the UK's best digital bank.  As a full-service digital bank with a heritage stretching back over 180 years, we're a workforce to be reckoned with, and we're putting the full power of our experience behind disruptive ideas that reinvent the role a bank plays in people's lives. We're customer-obsessed and work tirelessly to deliver on our purpose, ‘Making You Happier About Money.' This means we're able to do banking differently, and by innovating and working together we can make a real difference by creating memorable moments and red-hot experiences for our millions of customers. Join us and Live a Life More Virgin that empowers you with choice and flexibility in how you work. Be yourself at Virgin MoneyOur purpose is to make people happier about money, this means seeing and feeling the world as our customers do by creating a workforce that reflects the rich diversity of our customers and communities.  We're committed to creating an inclusive culture where colleagues feel safe and inspired to contribute, speak up and be heard.  

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Now the legal bitLiving A Life More Virgin allows our colleagues to be based anywhere in the UK (if the role allows it), but we'll need you to confirm you have the right to work in the UK.

If you're successful in securing a role with us, there are some checks you need to complete before starting. These include credit and criminal record checks and three years' worth of satisfactory references. If the role is part of the Senior Manager Regime and Certification Regime, it requires enhanced pre-employment checks - we'll ask for six years of regulatory references, and once in the role, you'll be subject to periodic employment checks.