Cyber Security Analyst - Risk

Asda; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading retail organization seeks a Cyber Security Analyst to join their Governance and Risk team. The role involves performing risk analysis, managing stakeholders, and promoting cybersecurity awareness. Ideal candidates will have experience in security risk analysis, knowledge of security frameworks, and a strong customer service mindset. The position offers a full-time contract with a competitive salary and a range of benefits, including hybrid working options.

Benefits

Discretionary bonus

Company Pension Scheme matched to a limit

Minimum 24 days annual leave plus 8 bank holidays

Career development and apprenticeship schemes

Free city centre parking

Discount off shopping at Asda and George

Digital GP and Wellbeing sessions

Qualifications

• Demonstrate a customer service mindset to deliver high quality, results-driven solutions.
• A good working knowledge and experience of security risk analysis.
• Knowledge of industry-related security frameworks and policies (e.g. PCI, ISO27001, GDPR and NIST).
• Ability to engage with stakeholders at various levels of seniority.

Responsibilities

• Perform risk analysis reviews on systems and solutions.
• Manage customer expectations and requirements in a technical environment.
• Build relationships with multiple internal stakeholders.
• Help to spread Cybersecurity Awareness across the business.

Skills

Customer service mindset

Innovative security approaches

Knowledge of security risk analysis

Excellent communication skills

Understanding of security frameworks

Stakeholder engagement

Business-focused cybersecurity

Desire to learn and innovate

Job description

Job Title: Cyber Security Analyst - Risk

Location Asda House

Employment Type Full time

Contract Type Permanent

Hours Per Week 37.5

Salary Competitive salary plus benefits.

Category Cyber Security

Closing Date 28 November 2025

Asda's Cyber Security function are looking for a Cyber Security Analyst to join the Governance and Risk function of our dedicated team. If you are a Cyber Security Analyst looking to pursue your career within an organisation that understands the importance and value in building a strong Cyber Security function this could be the role for you.

Everything about Asda

We are a values-led organisation. As such we encourage everyone to be open and honest. We work creatively and collaboratively, valuing everyone's input.

Our collaborative culture, the size of our business and our belief in the empowerment of the individual means opportunities at Asda are abundant.

We conduct £300m worth of transactions every week. Our website handles over 2 million transactions a month. We have more than 145,000 dedicated Asda colleagues ensuring that our customers are at the heart of everything we do.

Everything you’ll love

• Hybrid and flexible working - minimum of 3 days a week in a Home Office location
• Discretionary bonus - Rewarding you for your hard work and efforts

• Company Pension Scheme matched to a limit - Looking forward to the future

• Minimum 24 days annual leave per year plus 8 bank holidays - Making sure you take time for your self and switch off

• 4 weekly pay - which means you get an extra payday a year

• Digital GP and Wellbeing sessions - Asda genuinely cares so we create a culture where our people can perform at their best, the physical health and mental wellbeing of all our people is very important to us

• Discount off your shopping at Asda and George - with extra discounts running throughout the year - really makes a difference, saving the colleagues an average of £700 a year

• Career development and apprenticeship and graduate schemes - we want our colleagues to excel and grow with our business. (Link to grad scheme on Asda page)

• Free city centre parking - you can also use it outside working hours

Plus, much more!

Find your role

• Perform risk analysis reviews on systems and solutions, identifying security control gaps, the risks they present and defining remediation options.
• Manage customer expectations and requirements across a broad technical security environment.
• Build relationships with multiple internal business stakeholders.
• Deliver all work to the highest standard, following and driving industry best practice at every opportunity.
• Help to spread Cybersecurity Awareness across the business units.
• Support in the delivery and processing of Security Service to ensure that requests are worked and resolved quickly and effusively.
• Regularly suggest new initiatives and innovative ideas, to improve our ways of working and help to enhance the service and support we offer to our customers.

Let’s find out about you

• Demonstrate a customer service mindset to deliver high quality, results driven, business focused, security solutions.
• Innovate approaches to security to help ASDA be industry leaders in customer and business security.
• A good working knowledge and experience of security risk analysis for technical solutions.
• Knowledge of industry-related security frameworks and policies (e.g. PCI, ISO27001, GDPR and NIST).
• Ability to engage with a cross-section of stakeholders, both technical and non-technical, at various levels of seniority.
• A pragmatic, business focused approach to cybersecurity, capable of analysis of all aspects of risk and benefit.
• A passion for cybersecurity with the desire to continually learn, develop and innovate.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• A proven track record in a similar role and able to demonstrate the skills required to fulfil the responsibilities in this role.
• Demonstrable knowledge in security technology and how it reduces or eliminates risk in an enterprise.

Find your everything at Asda - bringing brighter living within everyone's reach.

We are passionate about creating a diverse and inclusive workforce, representative of the communities we serve, and are creating ways to inspire diverse talent to join Asda.

This role is open to job share / Part-time / Flexible working.

#LI-ES1 #LI-Hybrid

Everything you’ll love

To ensure we balance moments where we know we need to collaborate together and the need for flexibility, Asda has a hybrid way of working with a minimum 3 days a week in one of our Home Offices. Over and above this, each area of Asda may have additional requirements which may require spending more days in the office, visiting suppliers, stores or depots.

You will also get an excellent benefits package including:

• Discretionary company bonus
• Company pension up to 7% matched
• 15% colleague discount in store and online
• Free access to wellbeing services such as Stream, 24/7 virtual GP, counselling, health and dental cash plans and a 24/7 employee assistance helpline, alongside discounts across a range of services and activities, from airport parking, enhanced to theme parks and cinemas.
• Asda Allies Inclusion Networks - helping colleagues to make sure everybody is included and that our differences are recognised and celebrated
• Excellent parental leave policies, including maternity & adoption leave, paternity leave, shared parental leave, neonatal care leave, and support for those doing fertility treatments.

We want all colleagues to be able to bring their best and true selves to work, every day. Simply put, we want our colleagues to be Proud to be Asda and proud to be themselves.