Top Analyst Jobs in Edinburgh

Supports the end-to-end investment lifecycle across financial products, including trade support, settlements, cash processing, reconciliations, corporate actions, reporting, and exception resolution. Monitors workflows, strengthens controls, assists with audits and regulatory reporting, and collaborates with front-office, technology, finance, custodians, brokers, and other stakeholders. The role also supports process improvements, requirements gathering, testing, and adoption of AI-enabled tools to improve operational efficiency and accuracy.

Lead analysis, design and delivery of transaction reporting change programmes. Translate regulatory obligations into business, functional and data requirements, partner with Compliance/Tech/Operations, and provide governance on traceability, data lineage and remediation across regimes like EMIR, MiFIR and SFTR.

Develop and implement fraud detection strategies and rules, perform analytics to support fraud products, operations and financial crime initiatives, collaborate with cross-functional and risk teams, ensure compliance with audit/control frameworks, and share best practices across the firm.

Maintain and transform investment data by building data systems and pipelines, performing complex analysis, combining multiple sources, improving data quality, and presenting results via visualization. Collaborate with clients, system architects, and product teams to deliver actionable insights and analytical tools for data-driven decisions.

Lead design, administration, and improvement of global benefits programs. Manage vendor/broker relationships, plan renewals, implementations, day-to-day operations, escalations, reporting, compliance, and cross-functional coordination across PEO/EOR and legal entity arrangements. Analyze utilization and cost data, streamline processes, and support benefits during country expansions.

Lead EMEA insider risk investigations and assessments, identify threats to people and assets, conduct interviews and evidence analysis, brief stakeholders, develop mitigation strategies and training, and collaborate with InfoSec, HR, Legal, and IT to strengthen insider risk controls and awareness.

Detect, analyze, and respond to security incidents in real time across Windows, macOS, and Linux. Perform malware and forensic analysis, remote remediation, develop detection and triage processes, produce customer-facing communications, mentor and quality-assure junior analysts, manage programs/teams, and contribute to public thought leadership.

Partner with business and technical teams to capture and document ServiceNow requirements, transform needs into user stories and acceptance criteria, ensure alignment with ITSM, CSDM and CMDB standards, support UAT and validation, recommend process and reporting improvements, and coordinate BAU and strategic platform initiatives.

Triage, investigate, and remediate security alerts using EDR and forensic artifacts. Perform tactical malware analysis, investigate Microsoft M365 activity, assist escalations, contribute to detection engineering, and work on projects to improve SOC outcomes while mentoring and collaborating with teammates.

Manage and grow relationships with top institutional derivatives traders to drive volume across futures, options, and perpetuals. Source and convert high-value traders, monitor market structure and competitor activity, maintain pipeline and forecasts, and deliver data-driven insights to Product, Risk, and Marketing. Build AI-powered workflows to prioritize outreach and scale coverage.

Execute and manage IT audit activities, assess controls and regulatory compliance (SOX, GDPR, ISO, NIST), run control testing, use GRC tools for evidence tracking, perform IT risk assessments, manage third-party risk, coordinate with auditors and stakeholders, and provide actionable security and compliance insights to leadership.

Lead quality assurance reviews of transaction monitoring investigations, enforce QA rubrics, perform root cause analysis, and deliver metrics and dashboards. Drive calibration, training, and cross-functional remediation with Compliance, Operations, Analytics, and L&D to improve AML/CFT case consistency and operational performance.

Provide financial oversight and analysis for multi-country projects: budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, backlog and cash flow management. Partner with Project Managers and Finance to mitigate risks, support forecasting, drive process improvements, mentor team members, and contribute to global PFM initiatives.

Develops and maintains investment risk analytics, datasets, data pipelines, models, and Power BI reporting. Supports VaR backtesting, model governance, risk validation, mandate and instrument onboarding, regulatory reporting, and ad hoc analysis. Collaborates with Technology on requirements, solution design, software development, and user acceptance testing. Requires strong Python, SQL, investment risk, quantitative finance, financial markets, and fixed-income expertise, with Databricks, Spark, derivatives, Aladdin, and regulatory reporting experience preferred.

Develop and maintain cybersecurity dashboards, reports, KPIs, KRIs, and executive reporting packs using Power BI, Excel, SQL, and workflow tools. Manage security, risk, demand, training, and operational data; investigate data-quality issues; and deliver actionable insights to senior stakeholders. Gather requirements, translate business needs into reporting solutions, support project governance, improve reporting processes, and collaborate across technical and business teams.

Work within the SIPP operations team to execute daily and monthly processes (pension benefit processing, regulatory reporting), investigate and resolve customer issues to SLA, produce business reporting, recommend process improvements and automation, collaborate with product/engineering, and support training for new team members.

Senior Information Security Analyst responsible for assessing risk, designing and implementing security controls, supporting incident response, administering enterprise security tools, and reporting security posture to stakeholders across corporate and engineering environments.

Lead and continuously improve an ISO 27001-aligned GRC program, manage policy and third‑party risk assessments, evaluate AI/ML risk, configure GRC tooling, support audits and privacy obligations, and communicate risk to stakeholders across a global, engineering-driven enterprise.

Analyze complex datasets to build, validate and monitor quantitative decision models; perform sensitivity and scenario analysis; ensure data quality; translate insights into actionable recommendations and present findings to stakeholders; support commercial performance and risk/control activities for card products.

Perform detailed analysis of clinical trial and real-world data and present results as posters, slide sets and publications. Support project management and client communication, work across multiple projects and teams (Value & Access, Evidence Development), and participate in client meetings and trainings.

Perform daily internal client money reconciliations and support external/client money reconciliations, maintain key control account evidence, investigate and resolve breaks with root-cause analysis, operate maker-checker controls, produce MI and audit-ready artefacts, support audits, and drive continuous improvement while ensuring FCA CASS 7 compliance across platform and custody models.

Maintain and control the general ledger through journals, reconciliations, month-end close and balance sheet substantiation. Analyse financial movements (intercompany, transfer pricing, revenue recognition, fixed assets), ensure audit-ready postings, challenge and validate data, and support process improvement and automation initiatives within Record to Report.

Lead ownership of LNG cargo tracking dataset, ensure data quality, contribute to shipping forecasts and short-term reports, develop ship-tracking products, apply Python/SQL and AI/automation to improve workflows, and engage with clients and cross-team research to integrate maritime analysis into broader LNG market forecasts.

Act as the bridge between business, security and technical teams to gather and manage requirements, produce user stories and process maps, assess impacts/gaps/risks, support security, cloud and infrastructure initiatives, ensure regulatory and compliance controls, and support testing, change readiness, reporting and governance using AI and analytics tools.

Deliver end-to-end Digital Channels solutions by analyzing requirements, specifying customizations, coordinating project teams, supporting development and testing, and transferring operational knowledge to run banking solutions.