External Risk Analyst

The Pensions Regulator; Brighton; Hybrid; GBP 41,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

Join The Pensions Regulator as an External Risk Analyst, where you'll shape the identification, assessment, and response to external risks affecting pension schemes. In a hybrid role based in Brighton, your insights will directly influence strategic decisions and regulatory practices across the organization.

Benefits

Civil Service Pension arrangements

Discretionary bonus arrangements

Flexible working arrangements

25 days annual leave

Enhanced parental leave

Employee assistance programme

Qualifications

• A degree in an analytical subject is essential.
• Proven analytical skills and experience interpreting complex data.
• Good communication skills and ability to influence stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Deliver key elements of TPR's external risk management process.
• Conduct horizon scanning and identify emerging risks.
• Produce high-quality risk assessments and reports.

Skills

Analytical skills

Communication

Education

Degree in an analytical subject

Job description

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TPR Grade & Pay Group: Grade 8 R&O

Reporting to: Regulatory Risk Lead

Directorate: SPA – Evidence and External Risk – External Risk

Starting Salary: Salary between £41,383 dependent on skills and experience, plus excellent benefits package

Contract: Permanent

Location: Brighton/hybrid (6 days per month in the office)

Closing date: 26th June 2025

About us

More than half the UK working population rely on The Pensions Regulator (TPR) to regulate their retirement savings. With a career at TPR, you’ll be joining an organisation that will impact on millions of lives for decades to come.

Everyone at TPR plays an important role in helping to keep more than £2trn of savings safe. We’re committed to bringing people into TPR who are ready to make a difference and put UK savers at the heart of what we do.

It is important to us that TPR remains a great place to work. We do all we can to help our people reach their full potential with learning, secondment, and development opportunities. We put our 900+ employees first, supporting flexible working and offer a diverse, lively, and inclusive environment. This includes our Family Network (Balance), Disability Network, LGBT+ Network (Proud), Minority Ethnic Network, Mental Health Network, and Women’s Network which offer spaces to connect.

Our new corporate strategy outlines a bold and challenging vision of how pensions regulation should evolve to keep pace with a change in the scale and nature of the industry. We are at the start of that journey. Join us to find out what part you can play.

We operate a hybrid working model, with regular attendance in our Brighton office to connect with colleagues across the business.

Role

As an External Risk Analyst within the Strategy, Policy and Analysis (SPA) Directorate, you will play an important role in shaping how The Pensions Regulator (TPR) identifies, assesses, and responds to external risks that could impact the pensions landscape and the security of savers’ outcomes. This is a high-impact analytical role that sits at the intersection of regulatory insight, strategic foresight, and evidence-based decision-making.

This role sits within a newly created team established to support the development and delivery of TPR’s External Risk framework. The team has been formed to enhance the organisation’s ability to anticipate and respond to external developments—economic, political, regulatory, environmental, and technological—that could influence occupational pension schemes and the outcomes for millions of savers.

You will be part of a team that is responsible for maintaining and evolving TPR’s external risk framework, ensuring that it remains fit for purpose in a rapidly changing environment. This includes the collation and analysis of data from a wide range of sources, conducting horizon scanning to identify emerging risks, and producing high-quality risk assessments and reports that inform senior decision-makers across the organisation.

You will work closely with colleagues across the SPA directorate and wider TPR, including policy, intelligence, legal, and operational teams, to ensure that risk insights are embedded into regulatory strategy and practice.

This role requires a strong analytical mindset, excellent communication skills, and the ability to work collaboratively across disciplines. You will be expected to bring a structured, evidence-based approach to complex problems, and to provide clear, actionable insights that support TPR’s strategic objectives and regulatory responsibilities.

There are experienced senior analysts in the team that will be able to support you to develop in your skills and career.

Responsibilities

In this role, you will be expected to deliver key elements of TPR’s external risk management process, ensuring that risks are identified, assessed, and communicated in a timely and effective manner. You will contribute to the development and maintenance of the external risk register, support the design and implementation of risk assessment methodologies, and provide analytical challenge to proposed mitigations.

You will also play a key role in horizon scanning and the identification of emerging risks, working with colleagues across the organisation to ensure that TPR remains alert to changes in the external environment that could affect the pensions sector. This will involve synthesising information from a wide range of sources, including economic, political, regulatory, environmental, and technological developments, and translating this into meaningful insights for internal and external stakeholders.

Your work will directly inform strategic decision-making, including the Executive team and the Board. As such, you will be expected to produce high-quality written outputs, including risk briefings, reports, and presentations, and to communicate complex information in a clear and accessible way.

• Undertake the collation, assessment, and reporting of external risks affecting the pensions industry.

• Maintain and enhance the external risk framework, register, and reporting processes.

• Conduct horizon scanning and identify emerging risks across economic, political, regulatory, and market domains.

• Provide analytical support and challenge to risk mitigations proposed across TPR.

• Produce high-quality risk assessments and reports for senior leadership and the Board, with the support of other colleagues.

• Collaborate with internal stakeholders to ensure risk data is accurate, timely, and actionable.

• Support ad-hoc risk data requests and ensure compliance with professional standards.

Essential and Desirable Criteria

• A degree in an analytical subject or equivalent experience in a risk or analytical role.

• Proven analytical skills and experience interpreting complex data and insights.

• Good communication skills, with the ability to present complex information clearly and effectively.

• An agile worker able to balance competing demands while working collaboratively across multidisciplinary teams.

• Ability to influence stakeholders and defend evidence-based positions.

• Experience in a regulatory, risk consulting, or policy environment.

• An good understanding of the UK pensions system and regulatory environment.

• Familiarity with risk modelling and professional standards in data analysis.

Person Specification

We are looking for a confident and credible analyst who can work independently and collaboratively to deliver high-quality insights. You will be proactive, organised, and able to manage a varied workload. You will have a strong analytical mindset, good communication skills, and the ability to influence and educate others.

You will be comfortable working in collaboration with technical specialists across disciplines and will bring a structured, evidence-based approach to problem-solving.

Salary and benefits

As well as a salary from £41,383 we offer:

• Civil Service Pension arrangements, which are recognised as some of the best in the pensions world

• discretionary bonus arrangements

• access to performance related pay progression

• 25 days annual leave provision

• flexible working arrangements

• enhanced parental leave arrangements

• a free employee assistance programme

• an excellent office location in Brighton.

How to apply

To apply please email [e-mail] quoting role reference number 219854 along with:

• a covering letter with details of how your skills and experience meet the role requirements

• a copy of your CV

• details of your notice period

Current TPR employees in their first 12 months of employment who want to apply for this vacancy should first contact their line manager to discuss their application.

We are an inclusive employer and offer equal opportunities regardless of an individual’s age, disability, gender identity, marriage or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation.

As a Disability Confident employer, we’re committed to the recruitment, employment, retention, and development of people with disabilities, and to improving their employment opportunities. Candidates who declare that they have a disability and who meet the essential criteria for the job will be offered an interview.

In accordance with Home Office guidance, the successful candidate will be required to provide their right to work in the UK before they start employment. Unfortunately, TPR is not able to offer sponsorship at the time. TPR is a UK-based organisation with a working location in Brighton, candidates must live in the UK to be employed by us.

The Pensions Regulator is an arm’s length government body and part of the public service.

Any offer of employment will be subject to the receipt of satisfactory background screening checks and criminal record checks (BPSS).

Whilst it is our aim to respond to all applicants, if you have not heard from us within 21 days of the advert closing, please assume you have been unsuccessful on this occasion. Specific feedback will only be provided if you have attended an interview or assessment.

If you have any queries about this role, or if you have a disability and wish to request a reasonable adjustment at any stage of the recruitment process, please email [e-mail]

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