Aspera Edge — Institutional Risk Analyst

Institutional Context 01 of 08

Institutional risk across counterparty engagement spans counterparty risk, operational risk, market risk, and jurisdictional risk — exposures that require continuous monitoring, analytical assessment, and risk surfacing to executive leadership. The Institutional Risk Analyst operates this analytical function within the risk leadership architecture.

The role supports the Chief Risk Officer in maintaining risk visibility across the firm — ensuring counterparty exposures, operational risk events, market exposures, and jurisdictional risk shifts are surfaced procedurally to risk leadership and translated into risk reporting to the executive layer.

Role Mandate 02 of 08

Analyze counterparty, operational, market, and jurisdictional risk across institutional engagement. Operate risk monitoring, exposure assessment, and risk surfacing protocols across the firm's counterparty book.

The Analyst operates the risk analytical surface across counterparty engagement — managing counterparty risk monitoring, operational risk assessment, market exposure analysis, and jurisdictional risk surfacing. The role translates risk reality across counterparty operations into analytical outputs that the Chief Risk Officer and executive leadership consume.

Day-to-day, the role coordinates with the Head of Compliance Operations on regulatory risk dimensions, with Financial Crime & AML Lead on financial crime risk exposure, with Governance & Controls Associate on operational risk control effectiveness, and with Legal Operations Counsel on jurisdictional legal risk.

The function operates against the reality that institutional risk is analytical rather than reactive — and that risk surfacing depends on disciplined monitoring, structured assessment, and timely surfacing to risk leadership before exposure thresholds are breached.

Core Responsibilities 03 of 08

Operate counterparty risk monitoring across the counterparty book, including counterparty financial assessment, counterparty operational assessment, and counterparty risk score maintenance
Analyze operational risk across the firm's operations, including operational incident analysis, operational risk event assessment, and operational risk indicator monitoring
Monitor market exposure across counterparty engagement, including counterparty market risk exposure, FX exposure analysis, and market risk indicator surveillance
Assess jurisdictional risk across counterparty operating geographies, including jurisdictional regulatory risk, country risk monitoring, and jurisdictional event analysis
Operate risk reporting cycles to risk leadership and executive layer, including counterparty risk reports, operational risk reports, and executive risk dashboards
Handle risk escalation events — counterparty risk threshold breach, operational risk event, market exposure event — through documented escalation protocols
Coordinate with Head of Compliance Operations on regulatory risk dimensions and with Financial Crime & AML Lead on financial crime risk dimensions
Translate risk landscape evolution into analytical outputs — monitoring counterparty financial conditions, regulatory landscape, and market structure shifts
Support cross-functional coordination on risk matters across compliance, financial crime, controls, and legal functions

Operational Environment 04 of 08

Counterparty book spanning institutional counterparties across multiple jurisdictions, sectors, and operating profiles
Risk monitoring systems and analytical infrastructure across counterparty engagement
Counterparty financial disclosure, operational disclosure, and regulatory disclosure across counterparty book
Risk reporting to Chief Risk Officer and executive layer including risk dashboards, escalation reports, and analytical assessments
Internal coordination with Head of Compliance Operations, Financial Crime & AML Lead, Governance & Controls Associate, Legal Operations Counsel
External market data, regulatory landscape monitoring, jurisdictional risk intelligence
Counterparty risk teams at institutional counterparties during periodic risk review conditions

Reporting & Coordination 05 of 08

Reports to

Chief Risk Officer

Coordinates with

Head of Compliance Operations
Financial Crime & AML Lead
Governance & Controls Associate
Legal Operations Counsel
Market Structure Research Analyst

Qualification Threshold 06 of 08

4–6 years institutional risk management at bank risk function, asset manager risk function, financial infrastructure risk firm, or comparable institutional risk environment
Operating experience with counterparty risk assessment, operational risk analysis, and market exposure monitoring at institutional scale
FRM, CFA, or quantitative finance background preferred
Working familiarity with risk monitoring methodology, exposure threshold management, and risk reporting cycles
Cross-functional risk experience — direct exposure to compliance risk, financial crime risk, controls risk, and legal risk dimensions
Analytical discipline — capable of translating risk reality into structured analytical outputs that inform leadership decisions
European jurisdictional experience preferred

Selection Signals 07 of 08

Strong candidates typically demonstrate:

Risk analytical instinct — operators who recognize exposure patterns at the surfacing layer and translate them into structured analytical outputs that inform leadership rather than reactive risk responses
Counterparty risk assessment depth — direct experience analyzing counterparty financial conditions, operational conditions, and regulatory conditions at institutional scale rather than retail risk depth
Cross-dimensional risk thinking — capacity to integrate counterparty, operational, market, and jurisdictional risk dimensions into coherent assessment rather than treating them as separate analytical silos
Risk surfacing discipline — comfort surfacing risk findings to risk leadership procedurally, including findings that require escalation against operating preferences
Analytical calm under risk pressure — risk threshold breach, exposure events, and counterparty risk escalation handled analytically rather than reactively
Cross-functional coordination capacity across compliance, financial crime, controls, and legal risk dimensions

Engagement Structure 08 of 08

Institutional compensation architecture calibrated to top-tier institutional risk market standards
Direct coordination with Chief Risk Officer and broader risk leadership on risk analytical outputs
London-anchored role with cross-jurisdictional risk exposure across UK, EU, and APAC counterparty operations
Risk architecture support — contributing to Aspera Edge risk analytical operating standards during foundational stage
Counterparty risk exposure across institutional counterparties spanning multiple sectors and jurisdictions